San Antonio Express-News
Feb 01, 2020
In this article about the increase in suicides in the U.S. Air Force, reporter Sig Christenson interviewed STRONG STAR and Consortium to Alleviate PTSD Director Alan Peterson and collaborator Craig Bryan for insight on this tragic and perplexing issue. (Full version of the story may only be available to subscribers of the newspaper)
Texas Public Radio
Dec 21, 2019
Texas Public Radio produced this story about Project Remission, our program offering intensive outpatient PTSD therapy for Texas Gulf Coast veterans affected by Hurricane Harvey.
UT Health San Antonio
Nov 22, 2019
Training is now available for community mental health providers in the Texas Gulf Coast region who serve military veterans affected by Hurricane Harvey. The program provides training in evidence-based treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This new opportunity is made possible through a grant from the Bob Woodruff Foundation in partnership with the Qatar Harvey Fund.
UT Health San Antonio
Nov 22, 2019
Veterans in the Texas Gulf Coast area can receive a three-week, intensive-outpatient treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in San Antonio at no cost, thanks to a grant that pays for therapy, travel and lodging.
UT Health San Antonio
Nov 11, 2019
A grant from Boeing Co. will fund scholarships for 200 community mental health providers nationwide to receive low-cost training in the top treatments for military-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Univision 41 San Antonio
Oct 23, 2019
Univision 41 San Antonio spoke with STRONG STAR’s Jose Lara-Ruiz for this story from the 2019 San Antonio Combat PTSD Conference.
Spectrum News
Oct 23, 2019
The “Profiles of Resiliency” keynote address of a retired U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps colonel and a woman who was one of the children she helped evacuate during “Operation Babylift” at the end of the Vietnam War, is featured in this Spectrum News report from the 2019 San Antonio Combat PTSD Conference. The story also includes comments from STRONG STAR Director Alan Peterson.
STRONG STAR Consortium and Consortium to Alleviate PTSD
Sep 16, 2019
SAN ANTONIO (Sept. 16, 2019) – The nationally renowned Bob Woodruff Foundation, which invests in programs helping impacted veterans, service members and their families thrive, will provide major support for the 2019 San Antonio Combat PTSD Conference as presenting sponsor of the Oct. 23-24 scientific meeting.
Presented by the UT Health San Antonio-led STRONG STAR Consortium and Consortium to Alleviate PTSD (CAP), the annual conference is the only nationwide gathering focused on the state of the science in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related conditions. These invisible wounds of war affect hundreds of thousands of post-9/11 combat veterans.
Read more at STRONG STAR Consortium and Consortium to Alleviate PTSD
San Antonio Express-News
Aug 27, 2019
This story about U.S. Air Force efforts to reduce the incidence of suicide features expert comment from STRONG STAR Director Alan Peterson, PhD, and STRONG STAR collaborator Craig Bryan, PsyD.
This American Life, WBEZ Chicago
Aug 23, 2019
Nationally distributed radio and podcast program “This American Life” offers rare insight into Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), a leading evidence-based treatment for PTSD, with audio recordings that a patient made of the actual therapy sessions that helped alleviate her trauma from a sexual assault as a teen. CPT has been used in a number of studies conducted by STRONG STAR and the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD.