Keeping the Doors Open and the Quality High: Technical Assistance for Rural Mental Health Service Provision
Beth Hudnall Stamm, PhD; Debra Larsen, PhD
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
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Web cast Learning Objectives
1) Participants will receive information regarding the basic purpose and resources available through the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
2) Participants will receive information regarding the basic purpose and resources available at the NCTSN Center for Frontier, Rural and Tribal Health (CFRTH) Virtual Program Center (VPC).
3) Participants will understand how they may access and enroll in free training and service supports available through the CFRTH VPC.
Beth Hudnall Stamm
Research Professor
Director of Telehealth
Director, Institute of Rural Health
Idaho State University, Boise Center
Beth Hudnall Stamm, Ph.D., received her degrees in psychology with statistics at Appalachian State University (BS, MA) and University of Wyoming (Ph.D.). She is a Research Professor, Director of Telehealth, and Director of the Idaho State University Institute of Rural Health. She has been recognized by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies for “fundamental contributions to the international public understanding of trauma” and as one of the nation’s Distinguished Researchers by the National Rural Health Association. Working primarily with rural underserved peoples, Stamm's efforts focuses on health policy, cultural trauma, and secondary traumatic stress among health care providers where telehealth figures prominently. Her work is used in over 30 countries and diverse fields including health care, bioterrorism and disaster responding, news media, and the military. She makes her home in a log cabin in the mountains of Idaho with her historian-husband and her service dog, Sophie.
Debra Larsen 
Research Assistant Professor
Real Choices, Telehealth, Child Traumatic Stress
Debra Larsen, Ph.D. is an Assistant Research Professor for the Institute of Rural Health at Idaho State University and a recipient of a federal FLRP fellowship from the HRSA Bureau of Health Professions. Dr. Larsen has significant clinical experience implementing interventions with children/adolescents and their families who have experienced exposure to violence or trauma and individuals with disabilities through her work with a number Idaho’s family crisis centers. Additionally, her work at the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center focused on addressing barriers and providing pediatric mental health treatment in rural/frontier areas. Dr. Larsen is the Academic Representative for the Idaho Psychological Association, a member of the American Psychological Association, Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT) and served as a co-president for the Marital/Family Special Interest Group [SIG] of AABT. Dr. Larsen has presented research findings regarding the relationship between family interaction patterns, parental support, and child/adolescent functioning, professional quality of life and integration research with individuals with disabilities at several national conventions. Dr. Larsen’s publications to date have focused on social support within family relationships, rural mental health services, and conceptualization of secondary trauma in professional quality of life issues.
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