Dr. Rahe - Health Assessment Programs

Dr. Rahe will make this presentation at Chemeketa Community College, in Salem, Oregon, on September 13th, 2010.  The one-hour talk will begin at 2:00 P.M.  This communication is intended for faculty and interested others, many of whom work with military service men and women pursuing their educational goals.

At McCord Air Force Base, in Tacoma, Washington, Dr. Rahe presented a lecture to Army and Air Force mental health therapists on possible uses of his new Stress and Coping Workbook. The possiblity of research utilizing his stress and coping database, along with his workbook, was also presented.

For this presentation to the the staff of the Veterans' Village of San Diego (California), Dr Rahe introduced his new stress and coping workbook. This workbook directly applies to group counseling for military men and women returning from a lengthy IOF and OIF deployments. It focuses on the many challenges concerning readjustment to civilian life. The over 100 service men and women living at the Veterans' Village are homeless. They can stay there up to one year utilizing therapetic and educational classes designed to help them function independently.

Dr. Rahe returned to the Naval Health Research Center, San diego, California - where he was stationed for 11 years while on active duty in the U.S. Navy. He presented a multidimensional view of soldiers adaptions to wartime traumas and several possible paths toward recovery.

Dr. Rahe joined a panel of physicians and nurse practitioners in detailing his approach to helping patients achieve stress resiliency. He introduced his on-line assessment instrument, the Brief Stress and Coping Inventory, along with his new educational manual. Both are used in his Recovery from Stress course.

An audience of Oregon State National Guard officers and senior enlisted men and women were invited to attend a presentation by Dr. Rahe on Combat Stress. Dr Rahe announced his Recovery Training from Combat Stress Program to be available soon at the Anderson Readiness Center in Salem, Oregon.

Dr. Rahe presented an overview of acute and chronic stress and their relationship to PTSD at the Senior Medical Consultants to the Armed Forces (SMCAF) Annual Meeting in Bethesda, Md.

At the University of Nevada School of Medicine, in Reno, Nevada, the Department of Psychiatry invited Dr. Rahe, emeritus professor of psychiatry, to present a Grand Rounds Lecture based on his 40 years of research concerning PTSD.

Dr. Rahe presented an overview of his research career to PhD candidates in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

Dr. Rahe was invited to present a Grand Rounds Lecture at the Department of Psychiatry, VA Los Angeles Health Care Service, Westwood, CA.

Dr. Rahe was the Keynote Speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Advanced Practitioners of Psychiatric Nursing (AAPPN).

Dr. Rahe presented to an on-line fitness authority, e-Phit, in Salt Lake City, Utah, regarding serial monitoring of stress and coping as a marker of progression in wellness.

Half day and full day presentations were made in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, and in Auckland, New Zealand.