Barton D. Buechner

Barton Buechner is the Interim Director of the MA in Psychology with emphasis in Military Psychology (MAMP) program at Adler University. He earned his doctorate from Fielding Graduate University’s school of Human and Organizational Development in 2014. Buechner is also a 1978 graduate of the US Naval Academy, and earned a Masters in Organization Development and Assessment degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1993. He served in the US Navy for 30 years in a mix of active duty and reserve capacities, including the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, and the Armed Forces Information Service. He retired at the rank of Captain in 2008. Dr. Buechner is the Co-Chair of both the Military and Moral Injury Special Interest Groups of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), and also serves on the Boards of Directors of YourNexStage (transition support for women veterans); the National Veterans Foundation (NVF); and the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) Institute for Personal and Social Evolution. He is the co-editor of a 2016 monograph publication of veteran-related scholarship from Fielding Graduate University titled “Veteran and family reintegration: Identity, healing and reconciliation (2016), and is co-editor of a special edition of the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship (JCES) featuring research by military-connected graduate students (2021).

Publications

Co-Constructing Belongingness: Strategies for Creating Community and Shared Purpose Online – The Social Construction of Community and Meaning
Co-Constructing Belongingness: Strategies for Creating Community and Shared Purpose Online – The Social Construction of Community and Meaning
Lilya Shienko, Barton David Buechner. © 2023. 19 pages.
Online environments have become a fact of life for education and business life, but participants do not always experience virtual space as a place where they truly belong. This...
Getting “Unstuck”: Transforming Lived Experiences of Veterans in Transition to Civilian Life
Getting “Unstuck”: Transforming Lived Experiences of Veterans in Transition to Civilian Life
Barton D. Buechner, Kathlyn Worrell-George, Lilya Shienko. © 2023. 20 pages.
This chapter describes development of a literacy of lived experience, applying concepts of phenomenology, somatics, and the coordinated management of meaning (CMM) theory of...