Alison Lighthall, RN, BSN, MSN, a former Captain in the US Army Nurse Corps, is an expert in posttraumatic stress, combat stress, military suicide, and mental resilience. While serving with the 7302nd Medical Training Support Battalion, she provided psychosocial training throughout the Midwest to units preparing to deploy and debriefing sessions upon their return.  Alison served as the Lead Clinician of Fort Carson’s Urgent Psychiatric Care Response Team, providing emergency psychiatric care to their most emotionally wounded.  Currently, as a trainer and consultant, she assists with reintegration programs for military and police organizations.  She received her bachelors degree in nursing from Eastern Michigan University in 1983, when she was also inducted into Sigma Theta Tau, the Honor Society of Nursing.  In 1993, she received her masters degree in psychiatric nursing, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Illinois-Chicago.  She is the author of several articles and a popular national speaker.

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