Foreword to the Second Volume of the Special Issue on Veteran Community Engagement

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ID11560843
AuthorsZeno Franco (0000-0002-6533-4226, Medical College of Wisconsin, corresponding author), Katinka Hooyer (0000-0002-7938-112X, Medical College of Wisconsin), Leslie Ruffalo (0000-0002-6318-3583, Medical College of Wisconsin), Rae Anne Frey-Ho Fung (Rogers Behavioral Health, Milwaukee, WI, USA), Mark Flower (0000-0002-2164-6367, Medical College of Wisconsin), Jeff Whittle (0000-0002-9544-838X, Milwaukee VA Medical Center), Jeffrey Whittle (Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA)
Year2023
Volume63
Issue6
Pages735-743
Publication date2023-10-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00221678231204932
OpenAlexW4387458367
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited27

Veteran community engagement is an evolving discipline informed by traditional community-based participatory research, veteran studies, and veterans themselves. This Special Issue suggests that research collaborations including military veterans, soldiers, and their families as co-researchers is a critical next step toward a design thinking perspective in social and healthcare systems for this population. This Special Issue was conceptualized through a veteran community-academic partnership formed over a decade ago. This partnership hosted several Warrior Summit conferences from 2013 to present, with the last of this series calling for academic contributions. The resulting papers drawn from the conference and other authors form this issue, and include a wide range of topics: veteran microdosing and psychedelic self-medication; a historical view of the impact of education exchange between U.S. and South Korean military nurses; strategies for engaging veterans in research of a theater-based intervention for PTSD; interprofessional approaches to addressing veteran identity considerations through collaborations between chaplain service and psychologists in the VA Healthcare System; an international perspective exploring a community collaborative with veterans in Montréal, Canada; efforts to build long-term and sustainable models for veteran engagement in health services research; community-engaged strategies to address veteran homelessness within broader housing stability efforts; and examining the role of veteran peer mentorship programs in alcohol recovery. These projects represent an emerging movement and offer a multidisciplinary roadmap toward honoring veterans voices in research, clinical services, and program development

Community engagement · General partnership · Health care · Medical education · Mentorship · Participatory action research · Pedagogy · Political science · Population · Public relations · Sociology · Summit · Transformative learning · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Health Policy Implementation Science · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology

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