Student Military Veteran, PTSD Information Highlighting Presentation at CCC on Tuesday

Purple Heart recipient Josh House, a Camden County College student and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, will discuss his experiences with post-traumatic stress disorder during a PTSD presentation being conducted in honor of Veterans Day by members of CCC’s chapter of Psi Beta National Honor Society in Psychology.

The event will take place from 10:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10. It will be held in Civic Hall, which is located inside the Connector on the Blackwood Campus. The campus is at College Drive and Peter Cheeseman Road in Gloucester Township.

The presentation will provide an overview of PTSD, which is common in veterans of military service. Topics to be covered will include psychological distress and symptoms; common reactions to trauma; diagnostic features of PTSD; and effective treatments. A question-and-answer opportunity will be included.

House will relate how he received traumatic, lifelong injuries in a suicide bombing during his service in Iraq. He also will answer questions.

The session is being coordinated by Professor Michael Colbert, who chairs the College’s Psychology Department and serves as faculty advisor to Psi Beta.

To cover this event, contact Susan Coulby, media relations manager, by telephone at 856-374-4949 (office) or 609-605-0874 (cell) or via e-mail at scoulby@camdencc.edu.