The Costs of Courage: Combat Stress, Warriors, and Family Survival

About Colonel David H. PryceDavid H. PryceJosephine G. PryceKimberly K. Shackelford

Josephine G. Pryce (MSW Our Lady of the Lake University; PhD University of California Berkley) is associate professor of social work at the University of Alabama teaching a variety of courses in social work practice research and traumatic stress. She is the recipient of several awards for teaching excellence. The focus of her scholarship and writing is military families veterans lesbians gay men secondary traumatic stress and self-care for helping professionals. Colonel David H. Pryce (MA University of Nebraska MSSW University of Texas Arlington; d. 2012) was a social worker author and colonel in the U.S. Army. He served two tours in Vietnam in attack helicopter and air cavalry units earning three Silver Star medals for gallantry and two Purple Heart medals for wounds received in combat. He served on the faculty of the U.S. Air Force Academy developing and teaching courses in American military history. Since his retirement in 1987 he has published extensively on warriors and their families. Kimberly K. Shackelford (MSW University of Southern Mississippi; PhD University of Mississippi) is deputy director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services Division of Family and Children's Services. Previously she was associate professor of social work at the University of Mississippi. She continues her work as a licensed clinical social worker with the Mississippi child welfare agency staff and other community service agencies for the continued improvement of services delivered to the children and families of Mississippi.