Dr. Scurfield is Professor of Social Work, Director of the Katrina Research Center and President of the Gulf Coast Faculty Council, University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast. He was the 2006 Mississippi NASW social Worker of the Year for his post-Katrina efforts, and he continues to provide counseling at the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast to students, faculty and staff. His MSW and DSW are from the University of Southern California. He was a social work Army officer on a psychiatric team in Vietnam (1968-69) and has co-led return trips to peace-time Vietnam in 1989 and 2000.
Previously, Dr. Scurfield had a 25-year career with the Department of Veterans Affairs in which he directed several regional and national Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) programs from Washington, DC to Tacoma, WA, to Hawaii and American Samoa. He has over 60 publications, has been PI or Co-PI in several PTSD research studies, has given over 350 presentations in the U.S. and abroad and has made numerous media appearances, to include 60 Minutes, Nightline, Nightwatch, National Public Radio and numerous NPR-affiliated radio stations nationwide. Dr. Scurfield has been active in post-disaster interventions and is a certified Compassion Fatigue Educator and Compassion Fatigue Therapist. Dr. Scurfield’s most recent writings are about post-Katrina interventions on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. His November, 2004, book was the first book in a series, A Vietnam Trilogy. Veterans and Post Traumatic Stress, 1968, 1989 & 2000. The second and third books in the trilogy were published in 2006: Healing Journeys. Study Abroad with Vietnam Veterans, and Volume 3, War Trauma. Lessons Unlearned From Vietnam to Iraq that describes over 30 unlearned lessons about war, its impact and what to do about it.
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