by ISTSS Blogs | Aug 2, 2019 | Diversity and Multicultural Issues, JOTS Highlights, Military and Combat
Women veterans diagnosed with PTSD are an especially rapidly growing subgroup of VHA patients (Washington, Davis, Der-Martirosian, & Yano, 2013), constituting 10.3% of all those diagnosed with PTSD in 2015. With the recognition that women veterans with PTSD have...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jul 1, 2019 | JOTS Highlights, Military and Combat
Guilt is commonly reported by trauma survivors and has been linked to greater posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) severity (e.g., Bryan et al., 2015). As such, understanding how guilt impacts PTSD recovery has been of significant interest to clinicians and...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jun 1, 2019 | Military and Combat, StressPoints
Unlike single-incident civilian traumatic stress contexts, military combatants are at risk for exposure to a variety of distinct, potentially traumatic harms over a long period of time, all of which occur in a unique occupational, cultural and highly moral context. In...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 1, 2019 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, JOTS Highlights, Military and Combat
There has been a growing interest in traumatic events that may violate people’s core moral beliefs. Exposure to these events sometimes results in psychological symptoms and functional difficulties called moral injury. While not exclusively a military-related...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 1, 2019 | Military and Combat, StressPoints, Trauma and the Arts
The challenges for many soldiers returning from war go beyond the potential for PTSD, moral injury, traumatic bereavement and a range of associated risks from increased rates of suicide to a host of physical illnesses. For many, the wounds include a sense of having...
by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 2, 2018 | Clinical Issues and Treatment, Military and Combat, StressPoints
Written during the slaughter of the Peloponnesian War which engulfed the Greek world in the fifth century BCE, Euripides’ play The Trojan Women is one of the most unsparing pieces of anti-war literature ever written.Written during the slaughter of the...
