JACKSON, Tenn. — Nov. 4, 2013 — Former Navy psychologist Heidi Squier Kraft will speak at 51社区 Nov. 7 about mental health care needs for the military community.
Kraft, a nationally known speaker concerning post-traumatic stress disorder, joined the Navy as a flight and clinical psychologist. She was later deployed to Iraq for seven months with a Marine Corps surgical company in 2004 鈥� an experience from which she wrote a memoir, 鈥淩ule Number Two.鈥�
Kraft will discuss mental health care for military personnel and their families as a 鈥減ressing social issue,鈥� said Mary Anne Poe, the acting associate dean of social work.
鈥淭he needs are great,鈥� said Poe, who also serves as a social work professor and the Center for Just and Caring Communities director. 鈥淲e are pleased to have an opportunity to offer this lecture at Union.鈥�
The lecture, hosted by the School of Social Work, will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Harvey Auditorium in the Student Union Building.
Kraft also will attend a program hosted by the Jackson-Madison Country Library Program Center earlier that day, including a lunch at 11 a.m. and a book signing at noon.
For more information, visit http://www.uu.edu/events/socialwork/2013/HeidiKraftPoster.pdf.