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Glenn R. Schiraldi

Glenn R. Schiraldi PhD

Psychology
New Smyrna Beach, Florida, United States of America

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Glenn R. Schiraldi, Ph.D., Lt. Colonel (USAR, Ret.), has served on the stress management faculties at the Pentagon, the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, and the University of Maryland, where he received the Outstanding Teaching Award and another teaching/service awards in the School of Public Health. He is the author of various articles and books on human mental and physical health. His 14 books on stress-related topics have been translated into sixteen foreign languages, and include The Adverse Childhood Experiences Recovery Workbook; The Resilience Workbook; The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook: A Guide to Healing, Recovery & Growth; The Resilient Warrior Before, During, and After War; World War II Survivors.

While serving at the Pentagon, he helped to design and implement a series of prototype courses in stress management for the Department of the Army—including hostility/anger management and communication skills. For the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation and Resilience Training International, he designed and presents resilience training to optimize mental health and performance while preventing stress-related mental disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder in high-risk groups (such as military, police, and firefighters). Serving at the University of Maryland since l980, he has pioneered a number of mind/body courses, which have taught coping skills to a wide range of adults to prevent stress-related mental and physical illness. His research indicates that resilience and seven other indicators of mental health can be favorably impacted by semester courses. He has trained clinicians and laypeople internationally on various dimensions of resilience and trauma. Because of his expertise in practical skill-building to prevent mental illness, he was invited to join the Board of Directors, Depression, and Related Affective Disorders Association, founded as a Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychiatry, cooperative. He has also served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience and on the ABC News Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder working group.
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