Recovering from PTSD Workshop
For Families of Veterans, Veterans, and Supportive Professionals
"The War at Home: Recovering from PTSD -
the Value of Mutual Help Groups for Families of Combat Vets & for Vets"
a free presentation by
Patience Mason
Author & Writer on Living with, and Recovery from, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Saturday, August 27, 2005
10:30 am – 12 noon
at the Vietnam Era Educational Center
adjacent to the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial
Garden State Parkway Exit 116, in Holmdel, NJ (www.njvvmf.org)
(Follow the brown directional signs to the “Memorial)
Pre-Registration by Phone is Required
To register, or for more information, phone the N.J. Self-Help Group Clearinghouse at
1-800-367-6274 or 1-800-FOR-M.A.S.H.(Mutual Aid Self-Help) – good from anywhere within NJ.
Optional Follow-up Meeting on Support Group Development: Noon – 1 pm
For those interested in joining with others to help start a local, member-run, support group
in their area of NJ for either families of vets with PTSD or a group just for vets with PTSD.
About the Presenter
Patience Mason is author of the book, Recovering From the War: a Guide for All Veterans, Family Members, Friends, and Therapists, which was originally published as Recovering From the War: a Women’s Guide to Helping Your Vietnam Vet (Viking Penguin, 1990). Much of Ms. Mason's expertise comes from her years of experience as the wife of Robert Mason, who went to Vietnam with the 1st Cav in 1965 and returned a year later "with PTSD, which didn't have a name and wasn't supposed to exist." Subsequently she "lived with undiagnosed and untreated PTSD until 1980, when it got a name." Ms. Mason has spoken before various audiences from the "Today Show," to in-service trainings for VA professionals, and presentations she has given before veteran/family groups. She was editor and publisher, for 7 years, of The Post-Traumatic Gazette (sample issues of the Gazette, and other literature she has written, to include formats for support groups, is available at www.patiencepress.com).
co-sponsored by
New Jersey Self-Help Group Clearinghouse
Saint Clare’s Health Services
a non-profit social service agency helping people to find and form mutual aid self-help groups
www.njgroups.org
Veteran Families & Friends of the Greater Ocean County Area
a self-help mutual aid group being started for loved ones of combat vets
http://groups.msn.com/aftermathofwarcopingwithPTSDtoo
"The War at Home: Recovering from PTSD -
the Value of Mutual Help Groups for Families of Combat Vets & for Vets"
a free presentation by
Patience Mason
Author & Writer on Living with, and Recovery from, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Saturday, August 27, 2005
10:30 am – 12 noon
at the Vietnam Era Educational Center
adjacent to the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial
Garden State Parkway Exit 116, in Holmdel, NJ (www.njvvmf.org)
(Follow the brown directional signs to the “Memorial)
Pre-Registration by Phone is Required
To register, or for more information, phone the N.J. Self-Help Group Clearinghouse at
1-800-367-6274 or 1-800-FOR-M.A.S.H.(Mutual Aid Self-Help) – good from anywhere within NJ.
Optional Follow-up Meeting on Support Group Development: Noon – 1 pm
For those interested in joining with others to help start a local, member-run, support group
in their area of NJ for either families of vets with PTSD or a group just for vets with PTSD.
About the Presenter
Patience Mason is author of the book, Recovering From the War: a Guide for All Veterans, Family Members, Friends, and Therapists, which was originally published as Recovering From the War: a Women’s Guide to Helping Your Vietnam Vet (Viking Penguin, 1990). Much of Ms. Mason's expertise comes from her years of experience as the wife of Robert Mason, who went to Vietnam with the 1st Cav in 1965 and returned a year later "with PTSD, which didn't have a name and wasn't supposed to exist." Subsequently she "lived with undiagnosed and untreated PTSD until 1980, when it got a name." Ms. Mason has spoken before various audiences from the "Today Show," to in-service trainings for VA professionals, and presentations she has given before veteran/family groups. She was editor and publisher, for 7 years, of The Post-Traumatic Gazette (sample issues of the Gazette, and other literature she has written, to include formats for support groups, is available at www.patiencepress.com).
co-sponsored by
New Jersey Self-Help Group Clearinghouse
Saint Clare’s Health Services
a non-profit social service agency helping people to find and form mutual aid self-help groups
www.njgroups.org
Veteran Families & Friends of the Greater Ocean County Area
a self-help mutual aid group being started for loved ones of combat vets
http://groups.msn.com/aftermathofwarcopingwithPTSDtoo
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