On December 11th and 12th, 2007, a number of prominent clinicians and researchers in the fields of child and adolescent psychiatry, military medicine and family trauma met to conceptualize the hitherto unaddressed needs and challenges of the combat injured family. This expert consensus gathering, referred to as the Workgroup on Intervention with Combat Injured Families, included six Chiefs of Psychiatry from major military medical centers and a renowned Children's Hospital, and the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consultant to the U.S. Army Surgeon General. The Workgroup's primary objective, which was met, was to develop and disseminate a set of core Principles of Caring for Combat Injured Families and Children. These principles would serve to guide simultaneous endeavors of scientific research and evaluation, and clinical interventions to mitigate family distress and dysfunction, and to improve communication around the injury within and between the healthcare, family and community settings.

"Tuesday-Wednesday, December 11-12, 2007." "Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, part of the Department of Psychiatry of Uniformed Services University and a partnering center of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury"--Cover.