War Trauma And Its Wake

Author : Raymond Monsour Scurfield,Katherine Theresa Platoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136457890

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Decades after Charles Figley’s landmark Trauma and Its Wake was published, our understanding of trauma has grown and deepened, but we still face considerable challenges when treating trauma survivors. This is especially the case for professionals who work with veterans and active-duty military personnel. War Trauma and Its Wake, then, is a vital book. The editors—one a Vietnam veteran who wrote the overview chapter on treatment for Trauma and Its Wake, the other an Army Reserve psychologist with four deployments—have produced a book that addresses both the specific needs of particular warrior communities as well as wider issues such as battlemind, guilt, suicide, and much, much more. The editors’ and contributors’ deep understanding of the issues that warriors face makes War Trauma and Its Wake a crucial book for understanding the military experience, and the lessons contained in its pages are essential for anyone committed to healing war trauma.

Author : Charles R. Figley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317772811

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Trauma And Its Wake by Charles R. Figley Pdf

First published in 1987. Trauma and Its Wake, Volume II: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Theory, Research, and Treatment is the eighth book in the Psychosocial Stress Book Series. The purpose of the Series is to develop and publish books that in some way make a significant contribution to the understanding and management of the psychosocial stress reaction paradigm. The books are designed to advance the work of clinicians, researchers, and other professionals involved in the varied aspects of human services. The primary readership of this Series includes those practitioners, scholars, and their students who are committed to this purpose. The origin of this current book can be traced to Volume #4 in the Series, Trauma and Its Wake: The Study and Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, edited by Charles R. Figley. This was the first attempt to generalize research and clinical findings among a wide variety of traumatic or catastrophic events towards a generalized view of traumatic and post-traumatic stress reactions. Chapters focused on the immediate and long-term psychosocial consequences of exposure to one of many types of catastrophic events: war, rape, natural disasters, incest. Other chapters focused on effective methods of treating or preventing stress reactions or disorders. It is the first in a series of books that will review the latest innovations in theory, research, and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), caused by a wide variety of stressful life events. The book you are reading is the second of this series of annually published volumes on PTSD within the Book Series.

Author : Raymond M. Scurfield,Katherine Theresa Platoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780415506823

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War Trauma and Its Wake a vital book for anyone interested in understanding the military experience, and the lessons contained in its pages are crucial for any clinician committed to healing war trauma.

Author : Charles R. Figley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134843787

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Trauma And Its Wake by Charles R. Figley Pdf

Published in the year 1985, Trauma and its Wake is a valuable contribution to the field of Counseling and School Psychology.

Author : Charles R. Figley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Post-traumatic stress disorder
ISBN : 0876303858

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Trauma and Its Wake: The study and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder by Charles R. Figley Pdf

Author : Jason Crouthamel,Peter Leese
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319334769

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Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War by Jason Crouthamel,Peter Leese Pdf

This transnational, interdisciplinary study of traumatic neurosis moves beyond the existing histories of medical theory, welfare, and symptomatology. The essays explore the personal traumas of soldiers and civilians in the wake of the First World War; they also discuss how memory and representations of trauma are transmitted between patients, doctors and families across generations. The book argues that so far the traumatic effects of the war have been substantially underestimated. Trauma was shaped by gender, politics, and personality. To uncover the varied forms of trauma ignored by medical and political authorities, this volume draws on diverse sources, such as family archives and narratives by children of traumatized men, documents from film and photography, memoirs by soldiers and civilians. This innovative study challenges us to re-examine our approach to the complex psychological effects of the First World War.

Author : Raymond Monsour Scurfield,Katherine Theresa Platoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136576249

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Healing War Trauma by Raymond Monsour Scurfield,Katherine Theresa Platoni Pdf

Healing War Trauma details a broad range of exciting approaches for healing from the trauma of war. The techniques described in each chapter are designed to complement and supplement cognitive-behavioral treatment protocols—and, ultimately, to help clinicians transcend the limits of those protocols. For those veterans who do not respond productively to—or who have simply little interest in—office-based, regimented, and symptom-focused treatments, the innovative approaches laid out in Healing War Trauma will inspire and inform both clinicians and veterans as they chart new paths to healing.

Author : David J. Morris
Publisher : HMH
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780544084490

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The Evil Hours by David J. Morris Pdf

“An essential book” on PTSD, an all-too-common condition in both military veterans and civilians (The New York Times Book Review). Post-traumatic stress disorder afflicts as many as 30 percent of those who have experienced twenty-first-century combat—but it is not confined to soldiers. Countless ordinary Americans also suffer from PTSD, following incidences of abuse, crime, natural disasters, accidents, or other trauma—yet in many cases their symptoms are still shrouded in mystery, secrecy, and shame. This “compulsively readable” study takes an in-depth look at the subject (Los Angeles Times). Written by a war correspondent and former Marine with firsthand experience of this disorder, and drawing on interviews with individuals living with PTSD, it forays into the scientific, literary, and cultural history of the illness. Using a rich blend of reporting and memoir, The Evil Hours is a moving work that will speak not only to those with the condition and to their loved ones, but also to all of us struggling to make sense of an anxious and uncertain time.

Author : Laurence Armand French,Lidija Nikolic-Novakovic
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780761858027

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War Trauma and its Aftermath by Laurence Armand French,Lidija Nikolic-Novakovic Pdf

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.

Author : Jonathan Shay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781439124925

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Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay Pdf

An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In this moving, dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. A classic of war literature that has as much relevance as ever in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is a “transcendent literary adventure” (The New York Times) and “clearly one of the most original and most important scholarly works to have emerged from the Vietnam War” (Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried).

Author : Laurel Deedrick-Mayne
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 9781460258538

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A Wake For The Dreamland by Laurel Deedrick-Mayne Pdf

Friends William, Robert, and Annie are on the cusp of adulthood while the world is on the brink of war. It is a Canadian summer in 1939 and Robert and Annie's love has blossomed, even as the inevitability of the boys joining up means separation and the first of many losses. Fearing he might not return, Robert makes William promise to take care of Annie. Every arena of their lives is infiltrated by the war, from the home front to the underground of queer London to the bloody battlefields of Italy. Even in the aftermath, in the shadow of The Dreamland, these friends fight their own inner battles: to have faith in their right to love and be loved, to honour their promises and ultimately find their way "home." A Wake for the Dreamland was on the Edmonton Journal Bestseller List for 35 weeks before winning the Alberta Readers' Choice Award.

Author : Stanley Krippner,Maria McIntyre
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780275972028

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The Psychological Impact of War Trauma on Civilians by Stanley Krippner,Maria McIntyre Pdf

This book addresses the impact of war and extreme stress on civilian populations, as well as psychology's response to these phenomena. Contributors examined and developed interventions in locations including Africa, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Siberia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

Author : Joseph Bobrow
Publisher : Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781634310345

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Waking Up from War by Joseph Bobrow Pdf

Voices and stories of veterans, their families, and their care providers, reveal what is necessary for postwar healing This book argues that the elements that contribute to healing war trauma—including safety, connection, community, dialogue, mutual respect, diversity, and compassion—can help build a stronger nation. But this message comes with a warning and a challenge not just for caregivers, veterans service organizations, governmental departments, Congress, and the White House, but for all Americans. War creates incalculable suffering—not only among those on the front lines, but also among those left behind. For every soldier killed or injured on the battlefield, countless others are affected—particularly relatives and friends—often in isolation and silence. As a nation, the U.S. must do everything it can to repair the injuries caused by war, whether physical, emotional, or moral, both for those who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, and for the country itself. Only after the nation provides the top-quality care our veterans have earned will we be able to begin to end our reliance on war and truly build a durable peace.

Author : Jamshid A. Marvasti
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780398087258

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WAR TRAUMA IN VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES by Jamshid A. Marvasti Pdf

The mission in writing this book was to look beyond politics in order to explore the extent of the ongoing and long-term human cost of war and military occupation. This book addresses the suffering of our troops and their families and our responsibility as a society, first to acknowledge and diagnose this suffering, and then to care for those who are affected by it. The first of two sections, “Clinical Issues of War Trauma,” contains chapters on signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and pharmacotherapy of war trauma. This section explores the vast variety of pathology such as TBI, PTSD, suicide, affective disorder, addiction, spiritual distress, and forensic aspects of combat trauma. To supplement or advance beyond medication and counseling, the editor designed a set of 12-Step Self-Help Principles for Combat Veterans with PTSD, inspired by addiction self-help programs. The second section, “Witnesses to War,” is comprised of four first-hand accounts of experiences in combat zones, during and after conflict. Some of the chapters of this book were written by professionals with direct involvement in combat, from WW II to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This outstanding book will be a standard text at military educational institutions and highly valuable to civilian professionals practicing psychiatry, family counseling and forensic psychology in the military system.

Author : John P. Wilson,Beverley Raphael
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 997 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461528203

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International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes by John P. Wilson,Beverley Raphael Pdf

Over 100 researchers from 16 countries contribute to the first comprehensive handbook on post-traumatic stress disorder. Eight major sections present information on assessment, measurement, and research protocols for trauma related to war veterans, victims of torture, children, and the aged. Clinicians and researchers will find it an indispensible reference, touching on such disciplines and psychiatry, psychology, social work, counseling, sociology, neurophysiology, and political science.