What has been done is enough. It’s hard to think that, for many veterans. Sometimes, those who served struggle with the thought that they could have done more. Whether you served three years or twenty-three, there is a feeling of leaving something on the table, leaving a job undone, somehow Read more…
Summary: Brad Karlin, PhD, is a vice president and chief of mental health and aging at EDC. He leads EDC’s work with public and private health care systems to promote the dissemination and delivery of evidence-based psychological treatments and to improve mental health and dementia care for older adults. Karlin Read more…
There’s a lot of talk about the “transition process” when it comes to service members and veterans. Of course it’s significant; leaving the military is shifting from one part of our life to another. Whether we serve three years or twenty-three, we move on from one way of life to Read more…
Summary: Kate Hendricks Thomas, PhD is a behavioral medicine researcher and Master Certified Health Education Specialist. She studies evidence-based mental fitness and peak performance and is the author of two books – Brave, Strong, True: The Modern Warrior’s Battle for Balance and Bulletproofing the Psyche. Her TEDx speeches provide a Read more…
Forewarned, Forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory – Miguel de Cervantes My family and I were having a great time. That awesome show, Mythbusters, was going into it’s final season (with the original group). The hosts, Adam and Jamie, were doing a live tour. All of us are Read more…
Summary: Dr. Carmen McLean is a Clinical Psychologist with the Dissemination and Training Division of the National Center for PTSD and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Education: Exchange (Psychology) Lancaster University, 2001. B.A. (Psychology) University of British Columbia, 2002. M.A. (Psychology) University of Nebraska Read more…
Hello, faithful readers! Nothing much today, but this is the best way to get the message out to those who may be listening. I’ve had a computer malfunction, and so will be offline for a few days…likely no blog and no podcast this week. Thanks, as always, for your support! Read more…
I was in a meeting the other day. A community colleague, who supports veterans in applying for their disability, was talking about veterans who came into his office with bad paper. He said these veterans are often told by their chain of command that their negative discharge will be automatically Read more…