News From the Cause
California social work school dean says United States should adopt Israeli military's long-term concept of PTSD: (HAAETZ, ISRAEL)
June 19, 2009
The dean of one of America's top social work schools says she intends to lobby Congress to change the U.S. military's approach to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder after meeting here this month with Israeli professionals and academics on the subject. Marilyn Flynn, the dean of the University of Southern California School of Social Work, said "there's a better understanding here of the nature of PTSD and the power to intervene. It's understood here as a chronic condition." Americans still consider PTSD an acute anxiety reaction, Flynn explained, adding she intends to change that in favor of the Israeli understanding. click here to view
