Treating young veterans : promoting resilience through practice and advocacy / Diann Cameron Kelly, Sydney Howe-Barksdale, David Gitelson, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly, Diann Cameron.

Howe-Barksdale, Sydney.

Gitelson, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War neuroses--Treatment.

War neuroses.

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Veterans--Health and hygiene.

Veterans.

Disabled veterans--Rehabilitation.

Disabled veterans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""The editors of Treating Young Veterans and the authors of the individual chapters [provide] practitioners with essential information about the needs, desires, and possibilities for veterans and their families. This book represents a thoughtful, sensitive, and sensible approach to working with military personnel and veterans who have been deployed to wars in the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan."". Peter B. Vaughan. Dean, Graduate School of Social Service. (From the Foreword) Fordham University, New York, NY. Many veterans unsuccessfully attempt to self-manage their mental and physical heal

Contents:

Treating Young Veterans; Treating Young Veterans; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Today's Young Veterans: Serving a Resilient Community; Treating Young Veterans; The Contextual Challenges for Young Veterans; Living Beyond the Intersection of War Theater and Home: Protective Factors for Healthy Reintegration; Trauma and the Developmental Course of PTSD Postdeployment; The Burden of Combat: Cognitive Dissonance in Iraq War Veterans; Veterans-by-Proxy: Amending Loss of Self Among the Children of Combat Veterans

Coming Home: Examining the Homecoming Experiences of Young Veterans Beyond Words: Homeless Veterans Who Served in Iraq and Afghanistan; Tragedy, Loss, and Triumph After Combat: A Portrait of Young Women Veteran Survivors of Sexual and Combat Trauma; Living in Transition: Young Veterans' Health and the Postdeployment Shift to Family Life 1; Ensuring Equality After the War for the National Guard and Reserve Forces: Revisiting the Yellow Ribbon Initiative; Managing the Return to the Workplace: Reservists Navigating the Stormy Seas of the Homeland

Veterans' Courts and Criminal Responsibility: A Problem-Solving History and Approach to the Liminality of Combat Trauma The First Responders' Bridge to Protecting Veterans: A Social Worker's Design on Street Reach; The 21st-Century Veteran and the 19th-Century Pension Code: Why the VA Claims Process Is a Steam Engine in an E-Universe; Meeting the Need and Respecting the Voice: Our Final Words; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-10019-3

9786613100191

0-8261-0710-9

OCLC:

720389397