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Dr. Nathan Bidlack, Clinical Psychologist. Photo from Bluffton University.From Bluffton University:
One of Dr. Nathan Bidlack’s patients at the Veterans Transition and Empowerment Center wanted to take up martial arts. Bidlack, a clinical psychologist and the center’s coordinator, helped him get started, and the man currently practices twice a week.
After 10 years in a group home, another patient has now been living in his own apartment for more than two years. Other veterans who have gone through the psychosocial rehabilitation program at the Chillicothe (Ohio) Veterans Administration Medical Center have earned their GED diploma or started college, Bidlack says.
“To see that change is pretty phenomenal,” says the 2004 Bluffton alumnus, who has worked at the center since October 2009 and became coordinator four months ago. “I just find it very personally meaningful and important work.”
That’s coming from someone who had thought he would become a parole officer when he came to Bluffton from his native Continental, Ohio, as a criminal justice major, and who still planned to work in a prison while a doctoral student in psychology at Wright State University.
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