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"Helping people deal with post traumatic stress"
Summary: Dr. Julian Ford has a program and a grant targeted to help veterans deal with post traumatic stress syndrome. Dr. Ford's research, clinical work, and teaching focuses on assessment and psychotherapy of posttraumatic stress disorder, emotion regulation, healthcare utilization, and ethnocultural factors. Dr. Ford developed and conducts research on the TARGET psychosocial intervention model for adult, adolescent, and child traumatic stress disorders. Dr. Ford Chairs the Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences Scientific Review Subcommittee for the Department of Veterans Affairs. For a simplistic way to understand what happens in post traumatic disorder Dr. Ford explains what happens to people is that part of their brain triggers the alarm center which is there to protect us, but it goes off without a real threat. Dr. Ford's TARGET program is a formal training program that helps people take control over their emotions and that is EXACTLY the goal of our radio show, i.e., to "Take the Wheel and Control How We Feel!"

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