Beyond Trauma
Beyond Trauma

Author: Dean Bonura

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06-15

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9781733096201

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The presence of PTSD or post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms is widely evident in our veteran community, and many veterans struggle with the effects of war-related trauma. And while symptoms fade over time, many remain like open wounds, evidence of deep and abiding pain.Servicemembers suffering from these symptoms, often manifest additional injuries, what has been described as spiritual or moral injuries. These involve questions about the meaning of trauma, the source of evil, and the reasons for suffering. They include problems with grief, guilt, and shame, and are associated with many forms of loss such as the loss of meaning, hope, and peace.Whether a veteran or servicemember suffers from the effects of PTS or meets the clinical diagnosis of PTSD, many also suffer from spiritual and moral injuries that warrant spiritual interventions and sources for healing.Given the fact that more than 250,000 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering from the symptoms of PTSD and even more from other effects of war-related trauma including moral and spiritual injuries, pastors, chaplains, and other caregivers have a legitimate, healing role alongside clinicians in addressing the effects of trauma even beyond it's war-related sources.Beyond Trauma: Hope & Healing for Warriors equips spiritual leaders with the knowledge and resources to not only understand the effects of trauma, but also make appropriate interventions that will lead veterans and servicemembers in churches and communities to healing and growth.

Beyond Trauma: Hope and Healing for Warriors
Beyond Trauma: Hope and Healing for Warriors

Author: Dean Bonura

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1512731773

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It is estimated that well over 250,000 military veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering today from PTSD, and even more from post-traumatic stress or PTS. Clinical interventions alone do not adequately address all the issues associated with PTSD. There is also a profound spiritual dimension to trauma, and it is frequently manifested in post-trauma symptoms such as guilt, grief, and shame; and in various forms of loss including, loss of meaning, loss of faith, and loss of peace. Pastors, chaplains, and Christian counselors have a legitimate, healing role alongside clinicians in addressing the spiritual aspects of trauma through spiritual interventions that are based on Scripture and leverage new ways of viewing trauma and assumptions about its meaning. Beyond Trauma: Hope & Healing for Warriors equips pastors, chaplains and other pastoral caregivers with the knowledge and resources to not only understand the spiritual effects of trauma, but to make appropriate interventions that will lead veterans in their churches and communities to healing and growth.

Care for the Sorrowing Soul
Care for the Sorrowing Soul

Author: Duane Larson

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-10-26

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1532617704

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Moral Injury is now recognized as a growing major problem for military men and women. Operant conditioning can overwhelm moral convictions and yet the question of whether “to shoot or not to shoot” often will never have a settled answer. Certain theories and treatment models about MI have been well developed, but too often overlook root issues of religious faith. The authors propose a new model for understanding moral injury and suggest ways to mitigate its virtually inevitable occurrence in pre-combat training, and ways to resolve MI post-trauma with proven spiritual resources. People outside the military, too, among whom the incidence of MI also is a growing threat, will benefit from this analysis. The stories of the injured—their shaping and their telling—are the key, and there are many illumining stories of moral injury and recovery. Those who suffer MI, their families, and caregivers, including counselors, pastors, and faith communities, will find hope-giving first steps toward the healing of MI in this book.

Christians have Crisis? UNDERSTANDING CRISIS AND THE AFTERMATH
Christians have Crisis? UNDERSTANDING CRISIS AND THE AFTERMATH

Author: Judith Isaacs-Herrig, M.Ed QIDP

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2018-07-29

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1641144629

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Of course Christians have crisis! As human beings, we are surrounded by temptation, we all make mistakes and we all suffer with trials in our lives. Unfortunately, there are well-intended Christians who attempt to minister to those suffering or in crisis without realizing how their words of wisdom could actually be counterproductive and potentially harmful. This book is a resource for ministry leaders, parents, teachers, and caregivers regarding mental illness, chronic pain, abortion, abuse, and addictions. It also covers marital and family issues. There are facts included throughout the book to reveal the prevalence of each topic and listed resources to increase knowledge in those areas. Scripture is included throughout the book to provide solid Christian counsel through each topic. If someone came up to you today to reveal they are considering suicide or that they are addicted to porn or prescribed drugs, would you know what to say to them? What if someone wants to talk to you because they believe their spouse is having an affair, or a mother believes her child is being molested or bullied, or their adult child is being abused by their spouse? Would you know how to advise them? Are your words subjective? Are they productive? Are your words factual and scriptural? As a church, we need to teach that Christ is a loving and forgiving God. We need to have compassion for the misunderstood. As a church, we need to be knowledgeable of current fads, common problems in societies and families so we know how to respond to crises appropriately. As a church, we need to encourage a safe environment for those in need. We need to minister to people with open minds and open hearts. And we need to know when it is time to reach out for professional help.

Tears of a Warrior
Tears of a Warrior

Author: E. Anthony Seahorn

Publisher:

Published: 2024-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781611212730

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The author writes from his experience as a young army officer in Vietnam who served with the Dauntless Black Lions of the 1st Infantry Division. His spouse and co-author describes her perspective as a wife and mother who has lived the past thirty years with a veteran who suffers from the physical, and more specifically, the mental scars of combat. You will become familiar with how PTSD affects the veterans and their families and explore strategies for living with PTSD.

Arsenal of Hope
Arsenal of Hope

Author: Jen Satterly

Publisher: Post Hill Press

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1642936804

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This book provides definitions and real-life examples of complex PTSD and complex secondary PTSD (seen in a rapidly rising number of spouses and children), and the problems that arise when untreated. Arsenal of Hope aims to help soldiers, first responders, their families, and civilians with trauma—including those dealing with COVID-19 chaos or death. Jen Satterly is a certified coach and respected authority on PTSD, having been embedded with Special Operations during large scale military training missions and married to a Delta Force Command Sgt. Major. As a cofounder of a nonprofit for warriors and their families to heal after the trauma of war, her stories, research, realistic advice, and sometimes humor, are told through a military lens. Written with award-winning collaborative writer Holly Lorincz, Satterly uses her firsthand knowledge and medical expertise to deal with each issue. Most importantly, she illustrates how to change and create habits to circumvent the symptoms of post-traumatic stress.

All Secure
All Secure

Author: Tom Satterly

Publisher: Center Street

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1546076565

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One of the most highly regarded special operations soldiers in American military history shares his war stories and personal battle with PTSD. As a senior non-commissioned officer of the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the U.S. military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought some of this country's most fearsome enemies. Over the course of twenty years and thousands of missions, he's fought desperately for his life, rescued hostages, killed and captured terrorist leaders, and seen his friends maimed and killed around him. All Secure is in part Tom's journey into a world so dark and dangerous that most Americans can't contemplate its existence. It recounts what it is like to be on the front lines with one of America's most highly trained warriors. As action-packed as any fiction thriller, All Secure is an insider's view of "The Unit." Tom is a legend even among other Tier One special operators. Yet the enemy that cost him three marriages, and ruined his health physically and psychologically, existed in his brain. It nearly led him to kill himself in 2014; but for the lifeline thrown to him by an extraordinary woman it might have ended there. Instead, they took on Satterly's most important mission-saving the lives of his brothers and sisters in arms who are killing themselves at a rate of more than twenty a day. Told through Satterly's firsthand experiences, it also weaves in the reasons-the bloodshed, the deaths, the intense moments of sheer terror, the survivor's guilt, depression, and substance abuse-for his career-long battle against the most insidious enemy of all: Post Traumatic Stress. With the help of his wife, he learned that by admitting his weaknesses and faults he sets an example for other combat veterans struggling to come home.

Resilient Leaders
Resilient Leaders

Author: Robert F. Dees

Publisher:

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780985597993

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Leadership is a contact sport. In the rough and tumble of life, leadership makes the difference. Excellent leadership to which we aspire integrates disciplines which ensure personal resilience, and promote resilience in others and in organizations. Resilient Leaders is part of the Resilience Trilogy by Bob Dees. If you are in charge of anything or anyone, move to a higher tier of what it means to be a resilient leader: How do I help others navigate the body slams of life? How do I help the organizations and people I lead recover from changing market conditions, tragic circumstances, perplexing dilemmas? While it is true that leaders get tired and body slammed, leaders also must bounce back, ideally even higher than before. Leaders must be resilient. That's what Resilient Leaders is all about.

The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score

Author: Bessel A. Van der Kolk

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0143127748

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Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.

Afterwar
Afterwar

Author: Nancy Sherman

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0199325278

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Drawing on in-depth interviews with service women and men, Nancy Sherman weaves narrative with a philosophical and psychological analysis of the moral and emotional attitudes at the heart of the afterwars. Afterwar offers no easy answers for reintegration. It insists that we widen the scope of veteran outreach to engaged, one-on-one relationships with veterans.