Raymond Monsour Scurfield (born 1943) is an American professor emeritus of social work, The University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast.
Scurfield has also written substantially about the impact of Hurricane Katrina, and helpful interventions to address post-Katrina mental health recovery.
In his 50+ year career, Scurfield has a distinguished reputation in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a clinician, innovative therapy and program developer, educator, and researcher publishing on topics such as Vietnam War and other war-related trauma, post-disaster interventions, race-related trauma, and experientially-based therapy.
His first duty assignment was as outpatient clinic social worker at William Beaumont General Hospital in El Paso, Texas.
His next duty assignment was as a chief social worker, psychiatric ward, Army Valley Forge General Hospital outside of Philadelphia, for four months.
His final assignment was to Okinawa, where he served first as the social work officer and then the Chief, Army Community Service.
During 1971–72 and 1974–82, Scurfield held several positions at the Brentwood (West Los Angeles) VA Medical Center, including director of the Vietnam Veterans Resocialization Unit and supervisor of the Veterans-in-Prison Program.
He was a community social worker with the Queen Liliuokalani Children's Center in Hilo and lower Puna on the Big Island of Hawaii (1972–73).
Scurfield was appointed to the national-level position of National Associate Director for Clinical Services from 1982 to 1985 with the VA's Readjustment Counseling Service (the Vet Center Program) at VA HQ in Washington, D.C. Scurfield spent seven years (1985 to 1991) in the Gig Harbor/Tacoma/Seattle area, founding and directing the Post Traumatic Stress Treatment Program at the American Lake VAMC that received national and international attention for innovative trauma healing strategies (helicopter ride therapy; Outward Bound river rafting and rappelling ventures; sweatlodge and Pow-Wow warrior recognition American-Indian-led healing rituals; and then five years (1992 to 1997) in Hawaii, founding and directing the Pacific Islands Division, VA National Center for PTSD that pioneered the inclusion of culturally-sensitive Native Hawaiian healing elements and a focus on Asian-Pacific Islander veterans throughout the Pacific, to include establishing the first VA outreach PTSD service in America Samoa.
In 1998, he retired from the VA and accepted a tenure track position at the University of Southern Mississippi School of Social Work, based at Long Beach.