More money wasted on PTSD studies that have already been done

Michigan State professor to lead study on military families, stress and resiliency
Detroit Free Press
September 25, 2012
By Melanie Scott Dorsey
Staff Writer

A Michigan State University professor will use military families to study resiliency and how stress can make us stronger.

"I have worked with military families for six years and I have always been incredibly impressed by these families' ability to get through stressful times," said Adrian Blow, an associate professor and a family and marriage therapist.

Blow is leading two projects after receiving $1.5 million in grants that will allow him to study National Guard veterans and their families as well as train mental health counselors to work with military families.

Blow and Lisa Gorman, a program director at the Michigan Public Health Institute, will use a $1.3-million grant from the Department of Defense to study resiliency in military families.

The study, which begins in October, will span over three years with Blow and Gorman contacting more than 600 members of the National Guard who spent a year in Afghanistan. The study also will include spouses and parents of the National Guard members.

The study will explore National Guard families' lives prior to deployment, during deployment and after deployment, Blow said.

There have been many studies done on the military, Blow said, but most of them deal with risk factors and not family life.
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This is more wasted money on studies that have been done, redone and done again for the last 40 years! If they still don't have a clue, all the money in the world will not fill them in.

It would be wonderful for funds to be used where they work and have proven histories of working instead of millions more going for research that produces one failed program after another. They still to this day push resiliency training even though that has been used over and over as the suicide and attempted suicide rates went up.

Does Congress have to pretend they give a damn so they keep funding these useless studies?

Have they ever heard of the Internet? It now contains more information than most researchers will ever use ON STUDIES THAT WERE ALREADY PAID FOR AND PROVEN TO BE EITHER SUCCESSES OR FAILURES!

How about they actually talk to families that have been there and done that over and over again and then they may actually learn what does work?