The USF College of Nursing leads research on a novel technique to alleviate veterans’ symptoms of combat-related and military sexual trauma. By Saundra Amrhein On a recent spring morning, Artricia James-Heard walked into the office of a therapist trained in an innovative technique being studied by researchers at the University of South Florida. Upon entering, James-Heard, a Navy veteran who …
USF College of Nursing Enrolling Veterans with PTSD in Study
Linda Hurtado | Tampa Tribune Army Green Beret Brian Anderson came back from deployment in Afghanistan with images that haunted him. Visions of eight-hour fire fights and the death of two friends left him with odd and overwhelming symptoms. “I thought they were blood pressure issues, diabetes or something like that,” he said. “When I went in to be checked …
On Armed Services Day, Help For Those Considering Suicide
Command Post Tampa Blog | Tampa Bay Online There is a unique study about to launch at USF into whether a novel technique, called Accelerated Resolution Therapy, can treat PTSD in as little as one session. Read Article>>>
USF nurses get Army grant to help vets
Inside USF Blog, Tampa Bay Online | Lindsay Peterson The U.S. Army has given USF’s nursing college $2.1 million to start a new therapy center for Iraq and Afghanistan war vets. To put the grant into perspective, it’s the equivalent of about $50 for each of the roughly 40,000 Florida vets now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in …
A Green Beret Busting Myths About PTSD
Bobbie O’Brien | WUSF News The U.S. military is downsizing. The war in Iraq is over, and combat troops are due out of Afghanistan by the end of next year. That means more than 1 million service members will be entering the civilian workforce in the coming years. That’s why two veterans are on a mission to help employers and …