Gain Once A Warrior: Wired For LifeAn Interactive Workbook Formulated By Bridget C. Cantrell Print

Bridget Cantrell was appointed theandOutstanding Female Non Veteran for her service to veterans by the Governors Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee and the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs.
In, she received the Didi Hirsch Foundation Leadership Award for Erasing the Stigma of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD, She has her Doctorate of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology and is a private practitioner, Dr. Cantrell is one of a small number of specially selected and trained mental health providers for the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs PTSD Program, under the supervisor Thomas Schumacher, MS Director.
She is also a provider under the Mental Health Fee Service Program, Puget Sound Veterans Dr, Bridget Cantrell was appointed theandOutstanding Female Non Veteran for her service to veterans by the Governors Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee and the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs.
In, she received the Didi Hirsch Foundation Leadership Award for Erasing the Stigma of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD, She has her Doctorate of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology and is a private practitioner, Dr. Cantrell is one of a small number of specially selected and trained mental health providers for the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs PTSD Program, under the supervisor Thomas Schumacher, MS Director.
She is also a provider under the Mental Health Fee Service Program, Puget Sound Veterans Health Care System Seattle VA Medical Center, She also holds various contracts in the state of Washington one of which is the Vet Center Contract, which enables her to see combat veterans, Dr. Cantrell is also an honorary member of the Red Feather Society, which is a Native American Combat Veterans association on a national level, This honor is as result of her work, knowledge and dedication to veterans, She has also been extensively exposed to the understanding and meaning of the Native American Ceremonial Rituals, which offer an alternative approach toward combat trauma recovery, She has worked with veterans for nearly twenty years, Specializing in trauma for several years her primary work now encompasses treating war veterans from all eras and their family members, She also works with those veterans who have been sexually abused while serving in the military, In, she received the Highest Productivity award for the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs WDVA PTSD program, Her dissertation research entitled “Social Support as a Function of PTSD within Washington State Vietnam Veteran Populations” was presented to the Washington State Senate Select Committee for Veterans as part of the Governor's Master Plan for the needs of veterans.
Her research included a five site sample of Vietnam veterans bio psychosocial needs that was used for planning future programs for the King County Veterans Program, Dr. Cantrell's research findings were formally presented at the European Traumatic Stress Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, She was also invited to present her study in Brisbane, Australia at the Brisbane International Traumatic Stress Conference, as well as the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.
In the Spring of, she formally invited by the U, S. Army to provide mental health services to the paratroopers of thed Airborne Brigade stationed in Vicenza, Italy, While there, she focused upon helping these troops reintegrate with their loved ones and readjust to peacetime conditions after their prolonged combat exposure in Northern Iraq, Information and observations from this time of working with the Iraqi Freedom veterans gave birth to a new workbook course entitled “Turning Your Heart Toward Home”, This course was followed by the co authored book “Down Range: To Iraq and Back” which now has than one million in print, In her latest co authored work, “Once a Warrior: Wired for Life” Dr, Bridget Cantrell takes readers on to the next step in the process of coming home and re integrating when a tour of duty is finished, This book focuses on how to once again become a civilian after being trained in for military duty, Dr. Cantrells newest books: “Souls under Siege: The Affects of Multiple Troop Deploymentsand How to Weather the Storm”, will help us all find ways to support and tend to those living under the pressures of multiple deployments.
Its thrust is to not only expand awareness of the issues involved, but to also outline sensible tools for finding relief in these trying times, “Souls under Siege” is not a book to sit idle

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