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| See Dr. Scurfield featured in the Professor Spotlight in the 2009 Southerner yearbook. One of Dr. Scurfield’s media interviews on the effects of war and the impact of Hurricane Katrina was conducted 8.11.08 on Stanford University's Raising Sand Radio. His opinion-editorial commentary, “Surviving the Shards of Wars and Hurricanes,” was posted on “A.M. in the Mornings!” Previous editorial-opinion pieces written by Dr. Scurfield include "Dramatic Differences in Deaths at Virginia Tech and Iraq" and "Beyond Walter Reed." | |||
Ray Scurfield, professor of social work at The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast, has recently published books and articles exploring the effects of post traumatic stress disorder in both combat veterans and disaster survivors. The third installment in his Vietnam Trilogy, "War Trauma: Lessons Unlearned from Vietnam to Iraq," was published in October 2006. For more information about the Vietnam Trilogy, click here. Dr. Scurfield has also written about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast campus and helpful interventions to address post-Katrina mental health recovery. Partly for his post-Katrina work, he has been recognized as the 2006 Mississippi Social Worker of the Year by the Mississippi Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers and has received the 2006 and 2007 College of Health Distinguished Teaching Awards.
He has several publications and presentations related to Katrina -- a topic in which he also describes the parallels between post-Katrina and post-war readjustment. R. M. Scurfield (2009, June, in press). "The Nexus Between the Iraq War and Katrina Recovery," Trauma, Violence, and Abuse. R. M. Scurfield (2009, April, in press). "Post-Katrina Storm Disorder and Recovery in South Mississippi Over Two Years Later," Traumatology, The International Journal.
You can also read an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (2006, Sept. 1) about Dr. Scurfield's work post-Katrina. Handouts for the public (in PDF format):
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at the Gulf Park Campus of The University of Southern Mississippi.
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