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About Today’s Guest
Dr. Jason A. Higgins is the Digital Scholarship Coordinator for Virginia Tech Publishing and an assistant professor, jointly affiliated with VT University Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. He’s the author of Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration, published by the University of Massachusetts Press in the Veterans series. He is the co-editor of Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History (UMass Press 2022). At Virginia Tech, he teaches the Vietnam War, African American History, and Oral History.
PsychArmor Resource of the Week
This week’s PsychArmor resource of the week is the PsychArmor course Supporting Someone with Invisible Wounds. Not all wounds can be seen and invisible wounds are just as serious as visible ones. This course introduces four types of invisible wounds - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, Substance Use Disorder, and Depression. You can see find the course here: https://learn.psycharmor.org/courses/supporting-someone-with-invisible-wounds.
Links Mentioned In This Episode
Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History
Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration
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Theme Music
Our theme music Don’t Kill the Messenger was written and performed by Navy Veteran Jerry Maniscalco, in cooperation with Operation Encore, a non profit committed to supporting singer/songwriter and musicians across the military and Veteran communities.
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This episode is sponsored by PsychArmor, the premier education and learning ecosystem specializing in military culture content. PsychArmor offers an online e-learning laboratory with custom training options for organizations.
Producer and Host Duane France is a retired Army Noncommissioned Officer, combat veteran, and clinical mental health counselor for service members, veterans, and their families. You can find more about the work that he is doing at www.veteranmentalhealth.com