Mar 31, 2019 | Military Veterans
On March 29, 2019 the CPTG partnered with the Sutter Healthcare military veterans arm to bestow honor and recognition to all Vietnam-era veterans who served and sacrificed long ago. Over 50 veterans, their families, and other veteran organizations, including the...
Mar 28, 2019 | Moral Injury
I recently read a New York Times article about an episode of the hit TV show, “This Is Us” and the Vietnam war story line; co-written by Tim O’Brien, author of “Things They Carried”. Not that the article is so eye opening, but the...
Mar 16, 2019 | Moral Injury
The Suicide Epidemic Why are veterans and first responders continuing to suicide at an unprecedented rate? At the Center for Post Traumatic Growth (CPTG) we believe moral injury may be a root cause. Moral injury occurs when people of service are put into situations in...
Mar 16, 2019 | Military Sexual Trauma
This month Senator Martha McSally took a leap of courage and faith, addressing the nation about her own personal military sexual trauma (MST). A decorated combat veteran, Ms. McSally explained her reasons for not coming forward sooner and the rape culture that...
Mar 2, 2019 | Moral Injury, War
In his story covered in the New York Times in January, 2019, former US Marine and Iraq war veteran Russell Worth Parker shares his difficulties in “translating” his personal experiences in war to those at home. Embedded in the article Parker writes, “So I...
