"Coming Home with the War," DCoE Deputy Director Sonja Batten Interviewed

July 10, 2009

At the beginning of 2008, the Baltimore VA Medical Center was exploring the use of Virtual Reality Therapy, an innovative treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. They had ordered a simulator that creates virtual war scenes set in Iraq. Sheilah spoke with Dr. Sonja Batten, who was then Coordinator of the Trauma Recovery Programs for the VA Maryland Health Care System, and Dr. J. Raymond DePaulo, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Listen to the interview