I worked for the Home Base Program which is through Massachusetts General Hospital and the Red Sox Foundation. Home Base provides clinical care and support services such as resiliency education to veterans of post-9/11 conflicts. In addition, Home Base conducts research centered on identifying and implementing new treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other invisible wounds of war.
In my role as a research intern this summer I did all of the following:
- Aided in tailoring the “Resilient Family” stress management course to specifically cater to the needs of veteran caregivers
- Transcribed focus groups
- Entered intensive care program (ICP) patient data and other Home Base patient data
- Attended research meetings and treatment rounds
- Conducted literature reviews to aid in the writing of several studies.