Beth Hudnall Stamm, Ph.D., educated in psychology and statistics at Appalachian State
University (BS, MA) and University of Wyoming (Ph.D.), is a Research Professor at the Idaho State University Institute of Rural Health. She has held appointments at the Veterans Affairs National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dartmouth Medical School, State University of New York at Oswego, and at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Working primarily with helpers and underserved people; Stamm's efforts focuses on secondary trauma among helpers and cultural trauma. She has served on boards and committees for multiple organizations including The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), the American Psychological Association (APA), the National Association for Rural Mental Health (NARMH), the National Association of Rural Health (NRHA), and the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). She has been a principal on $27 million dollars worth of grants focusing on rural and urban children and adults address the effects of difficult life events.
Stamm has worked with secondary traumatic stress and professional quality of life since 1990. She originally became interested in the topic when she was directing a longitudinal study on self-reported perceptions of traumatic stress at which time she discovered the research on trauma had a negative effect on the researchers. Since that time she has worked with humanitarian aid organizations from around the world assisting them in developing professional quality of life resiliency programs that focus on prevention and intervention of burnout and secondary trauma. She has worked with health professionals of all types in North and South America, Europe, New Zeland, Australia and several countries in Asia and Africa. She has also worked with military and Red Cross/Red Crescent personnel in the United States, The Palestinian Territories, and Jordan.
Stamm’s activities focus on recovery from exposure to war and civil violence as well as to terrorism and disaster for all people in community, including helpers. Among her other activities, in 2008, she testified on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Health Care Symposium to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs regarding the needs of our service men and women who have experienced injury in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2006 she traveled to Amman, Jordan to a NATO Advanced Research Workshop to help identify ways to mitigate the effects of terrorism on individuals and communities.
Following that work, she was an invited speaker at the 10th International Torture Rehabilitation Council Meeting, in Berlin, Germany. In the aftermath of the South Asian Tsunami in 2004, Stamm was the U.S. Representative to the Inter-Governmental Meeting of Experts To Formulate Psychosocial Programme for Rehabilitation of Tsunami Survivors. She also provided technical assistance to the Indonesia’s oldest psychosocial recovery program, Pulih, who were providing local rehabilitation to tsunami survivors. In 2003, as part of a U.S. State Department program, Stamm worked with the Palestine Red Crescent Society to address using technology to address secondary trauma among emergency and primary care health professionals. In 1992, she was a delegate with the Truman Foundation, People to People Program teaching about posttraumatic stress disorder across eastern China.
Her work has been recognized by multiple organizations. In 2005, she received a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association naming her as one of the “outstanding psychologists of this generation.” She was credited with helping to establish the fields of traumatic stress, telehealth, and their effects on rural health. In 2004, she received the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Public Interest Award for “fundamental and outstanding contributions to the public’s understanding of trauma.” With her colleagues, she has been recognized multiple times by the American Telemedicine Association for “scientific rigor and contributions to the field.” In 2004, Stamm was selected as the Idaho State University Distinguished Researcher. In 2003, she was recognized by the National Rural Health Association as one of the nation’s Distinguished Researchers. She is a fellow in the Division of Traumatic Stress and the Division of Public Service of the American Psychological Association.
Stamm is an advocate for the use of assistance animals to mitigate disabilities. She is an Associate Animal Behavior Consultant (AABC) with the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants; a member of the International Association of Assistance Dog Partners; and is listed in the Delta Society Service Animal Training Registry.
Stamm has over 100 professional publications and is the Editor of the Journal of Rural Mental Health. Her books include Secondary Traumatic Stress (1995, 1999, Sidran Press, English Editions, 2002 Japanese edition and 2004, German); Measurement of Stress, Trauma and Adaptation (1996, Sidran Press); Cultural Issues and the Treatment of Trauma and Loss (with Kathleen Nader and Nancy Dubrow, 1999, Brunner/Mazel); Rural Behavioral Health Care with APA Books (2003); and The Professional Quality of Life Test Manual (Sidran, 2005, 2008).
Her work is used in over 30 countries and diverse fields including health care, bioterrorism and disaster responding, news media, and the military. She makes her home in a log cabin in the mountains of Idaho with her historian-husband and her service dog Sophie. See www.proqol.org and www.isu.edu/irh/ for more information.
Craig Higson-Smith (Research Psychologist).
Has concluded extensive research in the field of trauma, produced several publications in the field of trauma, set up and managed the KwaZulu-Natal programme for survivors of violence, has presented extensively on trauma locally and internationally.
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Amy C. Hudnall is also a Member of the HumanDHS Education Team, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (JHDHS). She is also HumanDHS's representative to the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS).
Amy is a Lecturer in the History and Women's Studies Departments at Appalachian State University and a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute of Rural Health, Idaho State University. Her work focuses on cross-cultural trauma and genocide from an historical perspective, and she teaches courses on peace and conflict. She has presented and published on captivity trauma, human rights, secondary trauma, cultural relativism, and cross-cultural conflict. She received her M.A. in history at Appalachian State University and also studied at the Bayerische Julius-Maximilian-Universität in Germany.
Amy Hudnall is teaching an interdisciplinary course on the development of warfare and peacemaking and preparing an interdisciplinary course on genocide that will have a heavy focus on psychology.
Please see "Humiliation and Domination under American Eyes: German POWs in the continental United States, 1942-1945," in Social Alternatives (Special Issue "Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives"), Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, pp. 33-39, 2006.
Henry E. Stamm, IV, has been a research scholar at Dartmouth College and has taught history at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and SUNY--Oswego. He holds the Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming, with an M.A. from Appalachian State University and his B.A. from Rice University. He is the author of People of the Wind River: The Eastern Shoshones, 1825-1900 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), as well as several articles and a website on Shoshone art hosted by the Wind River Historical Center of Dubois, Wyoming. Stamm is an adjunct assistant professor of history for Idaho State University and lives in Pocatello, Idaho. He is continuing his research on the people of the Wind River. Recent presentations and publications have emphasized the historical context of understanding cultural and generational trauma among indigenous peoples. His current project focuses on viewing cultural transformation of the Eastern Shoshones through the lenses of their material culture and art. He is also working on a sequel to his first book and also a collection of historical sketches, short stories and vignettes about the Indian and white communities of the Wind River Basin.
Dr. Beth Hudnall Stamm, Ph.D., http://www.proqol.org and Idaho State University
Craig
Higson-Smith, M.A., South African Institute of Traumatic Stress
Amy C.
Hudnall, M.A., Appalachian State University
Dr. Henry E. Stamm, Ph.D.,
Pocatello, ID, U.S.A.
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