Glenn R. Schiraldi, PhD
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Horses For Heroes New Mexico
welcomes Dr. Glenn Schiraldi to our National Advisory Board. His professional
credentials are only eclipsed by his heart of compassion for fellow veterans.
We are truly blessed and honored to have him on board as we move into our 10th year,
a decade of serving veterans wellness, wholeness and growth.
Glenn R. Schiraldi,
Ph.D., Lt. Colonel (USAR, Ret.), has
served on the stress management faculties at the Pentagon, the
International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, and the University of
Maryland, where he received the Outstanding Teaching Award and other
teaching/service awards in the School of Public Health. He is the author of
various articles and books on human mental and physical health. His 13 books on
stress-related topics have been translated into sixteen foreign languages, and
include: The Resilience Workbook;
The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Sourcebook: A Guide to Healing, Recovery & Growth; The Resilient Warrior Before, During, and After War;
World War II Survivors: Lessons in
Resilience; The Self-Esteem
Workbook; Conquer Anxiety, Worry & Nervous Fatigue; The Anger Management Sourcebook; Ten Simple Solutions to Building Self-Esteem; Hope
and Help for Depression: A Practical Guide; and Facts to Relax By: A Guide to Relaxation and Stress
Reduction. Glenn’s writing has been recognized by various scholarly
and popular sources, such as the Washington
Post, American Journal of
Health Promotion, the Mind/Body
Health Review, and the International
Stress and Tension Control Society Newsletter.
While serving at the Pentagon, he helped to
design and implement a series of prototype courses in stress management for the
Department of the Army—including hostility/anger management and communication
skills. For the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation and
Resilience Training International he designed and presents resilience training
to optimize mental health and performance while preventing stress-related mental
disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder in high-risk groups (such as
military, police, and firefighters). Serving at the University of Maryland
since l980, he has pioneered a number of mind/body courses, which have taught
coping skills to a wide range of adults to prevent stress-related mental and
physical illness. His research indicates that resilience and seven other
indicators of mental health can be favorably impacted by semester’s courses. He
has trained clinicians and lay people internationally on various dimensions of
resilience and trauma. Because of his expertise in practical skill building to
prevent mental illness, he was invited to join the Board of Directors,
Depression and Related Affective Disorders Association, founded as a Johns
Hopkins University, Department of Psychiatry, cooperative. He has also served
on the editorial board of the International
Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience and on the
ABC News Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder working group.
He is a graduate of the U.S. Military
Academy, West Point, and a Vietnam-era veteran. He holds graduate degrees from
BYU (Summa Cum Laude, Valedictorian) and the University of Maryland. His
research interests center on personality and stress, including resilience, post-traumatic
stress, self-esteem, depression, anger/hostility, and anxiety.
