Making the Most of Treatment: Veterans Want to Improve PTSD and Their Functioning During PTSD Treatment

by lgrasser@med.wayne.edu | Mar 28, 2025 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, Military and Combat, Trauma Blog Topics

Home 9 Category: Military and Combat Stephanie Y. Wells, Marcela C. Weber, Kathleen M. Grubbs, & Emily R. Wilhite   Trauma-focused psychotherapies improve posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and are widely available in the Veterans Affairs...

Predicting long-term outcomes of Iraq War deployment – Vasterling et al.

by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 9, 2023 | JOTS Highlights, Military and Combat

Wars may end, but the mental health ramifications of stressful war-zone exposure can endure for many years for some military personnel and veterans. Identification of risk and resilience factors that differentiate the long-term course of posttraumatic stress disorder...

A new perspective on the brain basis of PTSD in Veterans involves alterations in both fear and anxiety networks – Feola & Blackford

by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 1, 2023 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights, Military and Combat

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common, disabling disorder that significantly impacts many combat Veterans. Research estimates that 15-23% of the soldiers returning from deployment in Afghanistan have PTSD (Fulton et al., 2015). The rate of PTSD in Veterans...

Military matters: Emerging hormone-based pharmacological treatments for comorbid PTSD and alcohol use in ‎veterans: An update on science ‎ – MacKenzie R. Peltier, PhD, Terril L. Verplaetse, PhD, Sherry McKee, PhD, and Ismene Petrakis, MD

by ISTSS Blogs | Jun 28, 2023 | Military and Combat, StressPoints

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) commonly co-occur among ‎veterans.1,2 PTSD is related to increased alcohol use3,4 and hazardous alcohol use increases following combat ‎exposure.5,6 This reciprocal relationship contributes to...

What is the psychological impact of suicide exposure among active duty service members? – Schmied, Walter, Glassman, Jun, & Pippard

by ISTSS Blogs | Apr 3, 2023 | JOTS Highlights, Military and Combat

Despite concerted prevention efforts, military suicide rates have risen for more than a decade (Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center [AFHSC], 2014; Psychological Health Center of Excellence [PHCoE], 2020). While many risk and protective factors for suicide have...

Military Matters: Veteran Psychotherapy and the Use of Military Metaphor – Kenneth J. Thompson, PhD

by ISTSS Blogs | Mar 30, 2023 | Military and Combat, StressPoints

The use of military metaphor in the health sciences has been a topic of recurrent interest and debate for several decades. In that time, writers have decried how “wars” against such scourges as cancer, drugs, and, more recently the COVID-19 pandemic, can...