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For trauma survivors struggling with intense memories and emotions, it often feels like life won't ever be \"normal\" again. Effective treatments are out there, but the needs of family members are often overlooked. Will the person you love ever get better? What can you do to promote healing? Where can you turn when you just can't cope? From experienced trauma specialists Drs. Claudia Zayfert and Jason C. DeViva, this compassionate guide is packed with information, support, vivid stories, and specific advice. Learn to navigate the rough spots day by day and help your loved one find a brighter tomorrow. Mental health professionals, see also the related treatment manual, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for PTSD. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Book of Merit.

Prior to the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, wars and conflicts have been characterized by such injuries as infectious diseases and catastrophic gunshot wounds. However, the signature injuries sustained by United States military personnel in these most recent conflicts are blast wounds and the psychiatric consequences to combat, particularly posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which affects an estimated 13 to 20 percent of U.S. service members who have fought in Iraq or Afghanistan since 2001. PTSD is triggered by a specific traumatic event - including combat - which leads to symptoms such as persistent re-experiencing of the event; emotional numbing or avoidance of thoughts, feelings, conversations, or places associated with the trauma; and hyperarousal, such as exaggerated startle responses or difficulty concentrating. As the U.S. reduces its military involvement in the Middle East, the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) anticipate that increasing numbers of returning veterans will need PTSD services. As a result, Congress asked the DoD, in consultation with the VA, to sponsor an IOM study to assess both departments' PTSD treatment programs and services. Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Military and Veteran Populations: Initial Assessment is the first of two mandated reports examines some of the available programs to prevent, diagnose, treat, and rehabilitate those who have PTSD and encourages further research that can help to improve PTSD care.

This book presents an integrated treatment approach for those struggling to adapt after the sudden traumatic death of a loved one. The authors weave together evidence-based clinical strategies grounded in cutting-edge knowledge about both trauma and grief. The book offers a clear framework and many practical tools for building survivors' psychological and interpersonal resources, processing their trauma, and facilitating mourning. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book includes over 30 reproducible handouts. Purchasers also can access a Web page to download and print these materials as well as supplemental handouts and a sample 25-session treatment plan.

This workbook is a foundational and unique resource for clinicians preparing to work with clients affected by trauma. Chapters integrate a holistic understanding of the unique client within trauma-specific case conceptualization, promote trainees' identification of personal values and past experiences that could impact their ability to provide safe and ethical services, and offer ways to reduce the risk of occupational hazards such as vicarious traumatization. The trauma treatment process is presented within the tri-phasic framework, which is applicable across settings, disciplines, and various theoretical orientations. Each chapter also provides experiential activities that link the chapter content with clinician reflection and application of knowledge and skills, which instructors and supervisors can easily utilize for evaluation and gatekeeping regarding a student's mastery of the content. An ideal resource for graduate-level faculty and supervisors, this book offers a versatile application for mental-health related fields including counseling, psychology, social work, school counseling, substance abuse, and marriage and family therapy. Designed for students and professional clinicians, this groundbreaking text fills an important education and training gap by providing a comprehensive and enlightening presentation of trauma work while also emphasizing the clinician's growth in self-awareness and professional development.

As U.S. service members deploy for extended periods on a repeated basis, their ability to cope with the stress of deployment may be challenged. Many programs are available to encourage and support psychological resilience among service members and families. However, little is known about these programs' effectiveness. This report reviews resilience literature and programs to identify evidence-informed factors for promoting resilience.

This text provides integrated and unified treatment frameworks for anxiety disorders and examines how contemporary integrated psychotherapy treatment models from different therapeutic interventions can be used to help patients. Dr. Koenigsberg provides a research-based overview of major themes that underlie these treatment models, then analyzes the symptoms and causes of specific anxiety disorders such as panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, and phobias, as well as obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Case studies of integrated or unified treatment approaches are provided for each disorder, along with the theoretical and technical factors that are involved in applying these approaches in clinical practice. Supplementary online materials include PowerPoint slides and test questions to help readers further expand their understanding of integrated and unified approaches for the anxiety disorders and assess their newfound knowledge. Graduate and undergraduate students, novice and seasoned therapists, and researchers will learn the rationale for and the history of past and contemporary integrated and unified models of treatment to gain better insight into anxiety disorders.

When soldiers at Fort Carson were charged with a series of 14 murders, PTSD and other \"invisible wounds of war\" were thrown into the national spotlight. With these events as their starting point, Jean Scandlyn and Sarah Hautzinger argue for a new approach to combat stress and trauma, seeing them not just as individual medical pathologies but as fundamentally collective cultural phenomena. Their deep ethnographic research, including unusual access to affected soldiers at Fort Carson, also engaged an extended labyrinth of friends, family, communities, military culture, social services, bureaucracies, the media, and many other layers of society. Through this profound and moving book, they insist that invisible combat injuries are a social challenge demanding collective reconciliation with the post-9/11 wars. Introduction Part I: Coming Home 1. Lethal Warriors at Home 2. \"Best Home Town in the Army\" 3. Doing Dirty Work 4. PTSD = Pulling the Stigma Down 5. Decentering PTSD Part II: The Supporting Cast 6. Codeswitching : \"So, why do you have frostbite?\" 7. \"This is Our Playground\": Family Readiness Groups 8. Waiting to Serve 9. Appropriate Accommodation, or Exceptionalism for Supercitizens? 10. \"This Land is Not for Sale\": Pinon Canyon and Army Expansionism Part III: Dialogue 11. \"You're Not a Victim, You're a Volunteer\" 12. \"Closing the Gaps\": Seeking Civilian-Military Dialogue 13. \"Clueless Civilians\" and Others 14. The Day after Veterans Day: Listening to the Homefront Conclusion: Toward a Collective Reckoning with the Post-9/11 Wars

This is a multi-authored book on the complex subject of psychic trauma as encountered at different stages of the life-cycle. The book grew out of a series of talks given by the Psychoanalytic Forum of the British Psychoanalytical Society entitled Trauma Through the Life Cycle. The authors, all highly respected authorities in their fields, give differing theoretical perspectives which influence and inform their clinical approaches, but all attest to the clinical challenges and technical issues that arise when working with traumatized individuals.

A central thesis of this volume is that what human beings cannot contain of their experience - what has been traumatically overwhelming, unbearable, unthinkable - falls out of social discourse, but very often onto and into the next generation, as an affective sensitivity or a chaotic urgency. What appears to be a person's symptom may turn out to be a symbol - in the context of this book, a symbol of an unconscious mission - to repair a parent or avenge a humiliation - assigned by the preceding generation. These tasks may be more or less idiosyncratic to a given family, suffering its own personal trauma, or collective in response to societal trauma. This book attempts to address this heritage of trauma - the way that the truly traumatic, that which cannot be contained by one generation, necessarily and largely unconsciously plays itself out through the next generation - and to do so both from clinical and societal perspectives.

Military psychology has become one of the world’s fastest-growing disciplines with ever-emerging new applications of research and development. The Routledge International Handbook of Military Psychology and Mental Health is a compendium of chapters by internationally renowned scholars in the field, bringing forth the state of the art in the theory, practice and future prospects of military psychology. This uniquely interdisciplinary volume deliberates upon the current issues and applications of military psychology not only within the military organization and the discipline of psychology, but also in the larger context of its role of building a better world. Split into three parts dedicated to specific themes, the first part of the book, \"Military Psychology: The Roots and the Journey,\" provides an overview of the evolution of the discipline over the years, delving into concepts as varied as culture and cognition in the military, a perspective on the role of military psychology in future warfare and ethical issues. The second part, \"Soldiering: Deployment and Beyond,\" considers the complexities involved in soldiering in view of the changing nature of warfare, generating a focal discourse on various aspects of military leadership, soldier resilience and post-traumatic growth in the face of extreme situations, bravery and character strengths and transitioning to civilian life. In the final section, \"Making a Choice: Mental Health Issues and Prospects in the Military,\" the contributors focus on the challenges and practices involved in maintaining the mental health of the soldier, covering issues ranging from stress, mental health and well-being, through to suicide risk and its prevention, intervention and management strategies, moral injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. Incorporating enlightening contributions of eminent scholars from around the world, the volume is a comprehensive repository of current perspectives and future directions in the domain of military psychology. It will prove a valuable resource for mental health practitioners, military leaders, policy-makers and academics and students across a range of disciplines. Foreword by Professor Michael D. Matthews, Ph.D., U.S Military Academy; Preface; About the Contributors; Part 1: Military Psychology: The Roots and the Journey ; Chapter 1: Military Psychology in War and Peace: An Appraisal, Swati Mukherjee and Updesh Kumar; Chapter 2: War, Peace and the Military in Biblical and Ancient Greek Societies, Matthew B. Schwartz and Kalman J. Kaplan; Chapter 3: Four Stages in the Evolution of Military Enlisted Testing, Michael G. Rumsey; Chapter 4: Polemology: Orphan of Military Psychology, Jacques J. Gouws; Chapter 5: The Application of Culture and Cognition within a Military Context, Faizan Imtiaz, Mark Khei, and Li-Jun Ji; Chapter 6: Military Psychology and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Implications for the South African National Defence Force’s Directorate Psychology, Petrus C. Bester; Chapter 7: War of the Future and Prospective Directions of Military Psychology, Alexander G. Karayani; Chapter 8: Ethical Issues in Military Psychology: Promoting International Ethical Readiness, Thomas E. Myers and Shane S. Bush; Part 2: Soldiering: Deployment and Beyond ; Chapter 9: Shaping Military Leaders: Role of Character Strengths and Virtues, Archana, Samridhi Ahuja and Updesh Kumar; Chapter 10: Posttraumatic Growth in Military Populations: Theory, Research, and Application, K.C. Kalmbach and Bret A. Moore; Chapter 11: Building Resilience and Hardiness in Military Leaders –Robustness Training Programs of the German Army, Oliver Krueckel, Annett Heidler, Nicola von Luedinghausen, Markus Auschekis and Matthias Soest; Chapter 12: Sustainable Team Leadership: Social Identity and Collective Leadership for Military and Society, António P. Rosinha, Hermes Andrade Junior and Marcos Aguiar de Souza; Chapter 13: The Physical Bravery Study: Findings and Implications for Small, Innovative Research Studies with Military/Veteran Populations, Kristen J. Vescera, Jacie Brown, Catherine Hausman, and Bruce Bongar; Chapter 14: Military Recruiting in the United States: Selection, Assessment, Training, Well-being, and Performance Coaching, Steven V. Bowles, Bettina Schmid, Laurel K. Cofell Rashti, Susan J. Scapperotti, Tracy D. Smith, Paul T. Bartone and Peter Mikoski; Chapter 15: Validity Assessment in Military Psychology, Noah K. Kaufman and Shane S. Bush; Chaprer 16: Reintegration and Military Family Health: Military Training and its Relationship to Post-Deployment Role Conflict in Intimate Partner Relationships, E. Ann Jeschke, Jessica M. LaCroix, Amber M. Fox, Laura A. Novak, and Marjan Ghahramanlou Holloway; Chapter 17: Lone Wolf Terrorism, Bruce Bongar, Anna Feinman, and Renata Sargon; Chapter 18: Why Do They Leave? A Conceptual Model of Military Turnover, H. Canan Sümer and Ipek Mete; Chapter 19: Transition from Military to Civilian Life, Harprit Kaur and Swati; Part 3: Making a Choice: Mental Health Issues and Prospects in the Military ; Chapter 20: Militaries’ Burnout and Work Engagement: A Qualitative Systematic Literature Review, Maria José Chambel, Silvia Lopes, Filipa Castanheira and Carolina Rodrigues-Silveira; Chapter 21: Stress, Burnout and Coping in Military Environment, Yonel Ricardo de Souza and Fabio Biasotto Feitosa; Chapter 22: Stress Experiences and Abilities to Cope: Civil Population versus Military Personnel, Vijay Parkash; Chapter 23: Military Related Mental Health Morbidities: A Neurobiological Approach, Shobit Garg and Jyoti Mishra Pandey; Chapter 24: Clinical Health Psychology Applications in Military Settings, Ryaja Johnson and Larry C. James; Chapter 25: Suicide Prevention Strategies in Military Populations, Marissa N. Eusebio, Abigale Brady, and Bruce Bongar; Chapter 26: Military Sexual Trauma and Suicidal Self-Directed Violence: A Narrative Review and Proposed Agenda for Future Research, Lindsey L. Monteith, Ryan Holliday, Tim Hoyt and Nazanin H. Bahraini; Chapter 27: Understanding Suicide among Female Veterans: A Theory-Driven Approach, Lindsey L. Monteith, Ryan Holliday, Diana P. Brostow and Claire A. Hoffmire; Chapter 28: Resilience and Stress in Military Combat Flight Engineers, Reoot Cohen-Koren, Dror Garbi, Shirley Gordon, Nirit Yavnai, Yifat Erlich Shoham and Leah Shelef; Chapter 29: Family Based Psychological Interventions: A Heuristic Approach, Jyoti Mishra Pandey and Shobit Garg; Chapter 30: Chronic Disease Risk and Service-Related Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Military Veterans, Jeanne Mager Stellman and Steven D. Stellman; Chapter 31: Neurotransmitter and Neurotrophic Biomarkers in Combat Related PTSD, Gordana Nedic Erjavec, Matea Nikolac Perkovic, Dubravka Svob Strac, Lucija Tudor and Nela Pivac; Chapter 32: Neuroendocrine and Immune Biomarkers of PTSD in Combat Veterans, Nela Pivac, Marcela Konjevod, Marina Sagud, Suzana Uzun, and Oliver Kozumplik; Chapter 33: Moral Injury in Service Members and Veterans, Sheila Frankfurt, Alanna Coady, Breanna Grunthal, Stephanie Ellickson-Larew and Bret T. Litz; Chapter 34: Student Service Members/Veterans’ Mental Health on Campuses: Risk and Resources, Dan Nyaronga; Chapter 35: Resilience and Clinical Issues in Survival Behaviour under Isolation and Captivity, Vasile Marineanu \"Today military commanders across the world are experiencing widespread stress and mental health issues in their organisations. This book has outstanding psychological prescriptions for military commanders and psychologists alike. A compelling read.\" - Lt. General Dushyant Singh, Commandant, Army War College, India \"This handbook, comprised of an international team of experts, is an extremely valuable resource of empirical, theoretical and practical knowledge for military psychology students and practitioners.\" - Colonel (R) Reuven Gal, Ph.D., Former Chief Psychologist, Israeli Defense Forces \"This outstanding work covers important topics often overlooked in the professional literature. Connecting theoretical concepts to practical applications, an impressive team of military psychology experts give readers a book they will want to keep close at hand\" - Colonel (R) Bruce E. Crow, Psy.D., Former U.S. Army Chief Psychologist \"This volume is remarkable in its breadth, covering the ancient history of military psychology to the latest developments in assisting military service members preparing for combat and preparing to return to civilian life.\" - Richard G. Tedeschi, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina, USA \"A 'must-have' for every military psychologist, this book is a unique reference that transcends national borders, providing solid scientific research and thoughtful ethical discussions amid a perspective that captures the historical and prospective use of military psychology.\" - Colonel (R) Sally C. Harvey, Ph.D., U.S. Army Psychologist Updesh Kumar, Ph.D., is Scientist ‘G’ and Head, Mental Health Division, Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, New Delhi, India.