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Equine Therapy to Combat PTSD
Equine therapy has become a unique practice in helping service member and veterans who may be experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In addition, research has shown improvements within the...
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Friday Field Notes
In our first Friday Field Notes blog post we are highlighting how cooperative extension educators in Wisconsin worked with County Veterans Service Officers in their community to build capacity to...
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Serving Those Who Serve Us: Valor Service Dogs
By Carol Lansford Valor Service Dogs (2015). Personal photo used with permission from Carol Lansford. Retrieved from:www.valorservicedogs.org “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted, it belongs...
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Off the Shelf: Conversations with Authors of Children’s Books
The Family Development Early Intervention team is always on the look-out for quality children’s books that help address some of the unique needs of military children. Seth Kastle Used with subject’s...
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Caregivers of Veterans with “Invisible” Injuries
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) together have often been called the “signature, invisible” injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. PTSD is defined as the...
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Meaning… Less: A Glimpse into Moral Injury
Bari Sobelson, MS, LMFT Flickr[DN-ST-91-05864 by Expert Infantry, February 21, 2011, CCO]Michelle is a wife and a mother of two boys. She has served two tours in Iraq. On the last week of her last tour...
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Can Good Really Come from Bad? Understanding Posttraumatic Growth
By: Bari Sobelson, MS, LMFT Pixabay[Sunset Sky, January 4, 2014, by Adina Voicu]Most of us know about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at this point. We may have heard about it in relation to the...
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Check out our newest blog series, ‘Confessions of a Caregiver,’ coming out this Friday, March 10, featuring military caregiver, Nikki Stephens. Nikki is a dual caregiver to her husband, Marine Corps...
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The Dual Caregiver: Juggling Caring for Wounded Warrior & Child with Special...
Article written by Nikki Stephens, military caregiver and blog contributor on the “Confessions of a Caregiver” series. As I sit in what happens to be THE nicest waiting room I’ve ever been in at a VA...
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The Dual Caregiver: Grief and Loss
Grief and loss – makes you think of death, right? It might remind you of a time you mourned for a loved one who passed away, or the feeling you get when you think of a friend, or family member that...
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A New Way of Conquering PTSD?: US Army Research on Anesthetic Injection
By: Bari Sobelson, MS, LMFT Pixabay[Patch by ulleo, May 18, 2017, CCO]While we all experience some level of stress after a traumatic event, what distinguishes PTSD is long-lasting symptoms that don’t...
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Resource Discovery| Mobile App: PTSD Coach
By: Bari Sobelson, MS, LMFT Image from US Department of Veterans Affairs[PTSD Coach Mobile App]June is PTSD Awareness Month and in its honor, we would like to share this great app created by the VA’s...
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Resource Discovery: Community Provider Toolkit
The Community Provider Toolkit was launched by the National Center for PTSD and Veterans Affairs with the goal to support behavioral health providers serving Veterans in their communities. This...
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Counseling through Comfort: Utilizing Restorative Yoga for Rest,...
By: David Lee Sexton, Jr. Pixabay[Yoga Zen by GDJ , 2017, CC0]Meet Adrienne Baggs Adrienne Baggs recently earned a Ph.D. in Counseling, but she prefers to help people process their emotions through...
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A Med in Shining Armor? Exploring the Potential for a Drug that can Prevent...
By: Bari Sobelson, MS, LMFT Pexels[Man’s Hand by lalesh aldarwish on September 2, 2016, CC0] “The path to better medicine is paved with accidental yet revolutionary discoveries”. And, that’s exactly...
View ArticleRebuilding after Trauma: Lessons for Work and Life
https://militaryfamilieslearningnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/On-Healing-and-Hope.-Podcast.AC_mixdown.mp3 About this Podcast On Healing and Hope: Lessons learned through research and...
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How Well Do You Know the Characteristics of Military Caregivers?
Written by: Mary Brintnall-Peterson, Ph.D., MBP Consulting, LLC, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin – Extension Let’s have some fun taking a short quiz to see how well you know the...
View ArticleOpportunities & Possibilities: Posttraumatic Growth in Research & Practice...
ABOUT THE WEBINAR In this presentation, Richard Tedeschi, Ph.D. will discuss the theoretical model and research basis of posttraumatic growth, the process by which trauma survivors often find valuable...
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About the Webinar Note: Due to technical difficulties, an archived webinar is not available for this webinar. In Pt.2 of the ‘Opportunities and Possibilities: Posttraumatic Growth in Research and...
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Who Me? I’m Not a Caregiver!
Written By: Mary Brintnall-Peterson, Ph.D., MBP Consulting, LLC, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin – Extension Several years ago, I was part of a team that conducted focus groups with...
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