The Combat PTS(d) Resilience and Reintegration Workbook
The Combat PTS(d) Resilience and Reintegration Workbook

Author: () Katherine A. Tharp

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9781092158145

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Unlike the most widely used "evidence-based trauma treatments" that stem at their core from female sexual assault, The Combat PTS(D) Resilience and Reintegration Workbook focuses on needs specific to combat veterans who desperately need a resource coded in their own unique warrior language. Police, firefighters, trauma personnel, and other first responders have found this material helpful as well. Veterans and first responders are warriors who naturally run toward danger, not away from it. They have leadership abilities and capabilities that are groomed through formal training and are experts in their craft. This workbook is a culmination of research and practical observations based on the training and experience of being in a war zone. "Human beings are naturally resilient. A trauma survivor is not sick or broken beyond repair. Resiliency Formation Training (RFT) seeks to awaken and strengthen this resilience."

American and NATO Veteran Reintegration
American and NATO Veteran Reintegration

Author: MaryCatherine McDonald

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-06-16

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1498591108

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In American and NATO Veteran Reintegration, MaryCatherine McDonald and Gary Senecal examine mental health issues among former American service members. Data shows that American veterans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at significantly higher rates than veterans in other NATO ally countries involved in the war in Afghanistan. McDonald and Senecal argue that sociocultural factors, such as military training and civilian culture, have a dramatic impact on these rates.

Strategies for Managing Stress After War
Strategies for Managing Stress After War

Author: Julia M. Whealin

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-07-21

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780470282144

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Managing Stress After War: Veteran's Workbook and Guide to Wellness outlines clear strategies for tackling problems such as learning healthy coping skills, sleep problems, and managing stress, anger, and depression. Written in an easy-to-understand style, this essential workbook and its companion clinician's manual were developed and refined by the authors to help veterans returning from conflicts and provide education and intervention for those who are experiencing war-related stress.

Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks
Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks

Author: P. Meineck

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2015-12-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781349485604

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This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what we now term "combat trauma," "post-traumatic stress," or "combat stress injury" can be discerned in ancient Greek culture.

War Trauma and its Aftermath
War Trauma and its Aftermath

Author: Laurence Armand French

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2011-12-16

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0761858024

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War trauma has long been associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a term coined in 1980 to explain the post-war impact of Vietnam veterans. The Gulf and Balkan wars added new dimensions to the traditional PTSD definition, due largely to the changing dynamics of these wars. With these wars came unprecedented use of reserve and National Guard personnel in U.S. forces along with the largest contingent of female military personnel to date. Rapid deployment, sexual assaults, and suicides surfaced as paramount untreated problems within coalition force. Rapes, torture, suicides, and a high prevalence of untreated civilian victims of the Balkan wars added to the new dimensions of the traumatic stress continuum. Suicide bombers and roadside bombings added to the definition of combat stress, as military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan were forced to be constantly vigilant for these attacks—regardless of whether they served in combat areas.

Beyond the Military
Beyond the Military

Author: Jason Roncoroni

Publisher: Lioncrest Publishing

Published: 2019-11-11

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9781544505572

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After years of dedicated service, leaving might be the hardest mission for any military leader. If you're standing at the threshold of transition, fear and uncertainty are unspoken obstacles that can erode your confidence and excitement for what comes next. If you've already transitioned, you might still be struggling to find your place in society. No matter what you're feeling or where you are in this process, Jason Roncoroni and Dr. Shauna Springer want to partner with you on the journey for what happens next. Jason, an executive coach, and Doc Springer, a licensed psychologist, have combined their expertise and decades of experience to create the most comprehensive guide available for military leaders seeking happiness and fulfillment in life after the military. Beyond the Military applies the military decision-making process to help you confidently navigate transition. This handbook introduces an Integrative Program of Transition to address the critical aspects of transition that nobody else is talking about: optimizing whole health and wellness, social reintegration, cultural assimilation, economic stability, long-term professional development, and close relationship and family adjustment. With Jason as your coach and Doc Springer as your relationship consultant, you'll walk through over 30 exercises designed to help you unleash your full potential outside the uniform.

Why is Dad So Mad?
Why is Dad So Mad?

Author: Seth Kastle

Publisher: Tall Tale Press

Published:

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13:

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The children's issues picture book Why Is Dad So Mad? is a story for children in military families whose father battles with combat related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). After a decade fighting wars on two fronts, tens of thousands of service members are coming home having trouble adjusting to civilian life; this includes struggling as parents. Why Is Dad So Mad? Is a narrative story told from a family's point of view (mother and children) of a service member who struggles with PTSD and its symptoms. Many service members deal with anger, forgetfulness, sleepless nights, and nightmares.This book explains these and how they affect Dad. The moral of the story is that even though Dad gets angry and yells, he still loves his family more than anything.

Living the Dream
Living the Dream

Author: Fred Bo Dunning

Publisher: Living the Dream

Published: 2019-02-12

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9781796680188

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When military veterans separate from the military, they face struggles that are hard to understand. Finding their place and a purpose is not as easy as it sounds. The military tells us when we separate there will be people waiting in line to hire us because of our dedication, punctuality, loyalty, work ethic, and the desire to get the job done. That is true for some, but others struggle to find a job or just fit in. Living the Dream is a collection of real stories I have heard in the therapy room, from friends, and acquaintances, trying to become a civilian again. Living the Dream is intended to let military veterans know they are not alone and help civilians understand the culture shock our veterans face once they leave Active Duty. It is my hope this book will encourage society to help veterans find their place and a purpose. --- Fred "Bo" Dunning, M.A., LMFT

Tribe
Tribe

Author: Sebastian Junger

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 2016-05-24

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 145556639X

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We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians-but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the incredibly intimate bonds of platoon life. The loss of closeness that comes at the end of deployment may explain the high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by military veterans today. Combining history, psychology, and anthropology, Tribe explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the eternal human quest for meaning. It explains the irony that-for many veterans as well as civilians-war feels better than peace, adversity can turn out to be a blessing, and disasters are sometimes remembered more fondly than weddings or tropical vacations. Tribe explains why we are stronger when we come together, and how that can be achieved even in today's divided world.

Where War Ends
Where War Ends

Author: Tom Voss

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2019-10-29

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1608685993

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An Iraq War veteran's riveting journey from suicidal despair to hope After serving in a scout-sniper platoon in Mosul, Tom Voss came home carrying invisible wounds of war — the memory of doing or witnessing things that went against his fundamental beliefs. This was not a physical injury that could heal with medication and time but a "moral injury" — a wound to the soul that eventually urged him toward suicide. Desperate for relief from the pain and guilt that haunted him, Voss embarked on a 2,700-mile journey across America, walking from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to the Pacific Ocean with a fellow veteran. Readers walk with these men as they meet other veterans, Native American healers, and spiritual teachers who appear in the most unexpected forms. At the end of their trek, Voss realizes he is really just beginning his healing. He pursues meditation training and discovers sacred breathing techniques that shatter his understanding of war and himself, and move him from despair to hope. Voss's story will give inspiration to veterans, their friends and family, and survivors of all kinds.