September 1, 2006

A Trauma Expert Helps a Campus Cope

By SARA HEBEL

A state of exhaustion has settled over employees and students at the University of Southern Mississippi-Gulf Park, says Raymond M. Scurfield, an associate professor of social work there.

Mr. Scurfield, a Vietnam War veteran and an expert on post-traumatic stress disorder, volunteered to offer free counseling services to students and faculty and staff members shortly after Hurricane Katrina leveled much of the campus in Long Beach a year ago.

For the first months after the storm,

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