by ISTSS Blogs | Oct 24, 2016 | Military and Combat, StressPoints
Grief has increasingly become a focus of attention within the military, with 80 percent of redeployed soldiers reporting knowing someone who was seriously injured or killed in theater (Thomas et al., 2010; Toblin et al., 2012). Among 15,938 military service members...
by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 2, 2016 | Assessment and Psychometrics, International and Global, JOTS Highlights, Military and Combat
The traumatic effects of war experience on Vietnam veterans have been repeatedly studied and widely discussed over the past few decades. However, research on secondary traumatization, the transmission of distress from trauma victims to others in close proximity, has...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jul 22, 2016 | JOTS Highlights, Military and Combat
It’s a pretty common experience to have intrusive cognitions (ICs, or thoughts, memories, and images that are distressing, unwanted, and happen seemingly “out of nowhere”). Lots of people feel like they might be going crazy when that happens, even...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jun 3, 2016 | Military and Combat, StressPoints
Most Introductory psychology books discuss posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a possible consequence of experiencing combat. Students may be curious to know how many members of the military experience PTSD, if it is possible to recover from PTSD, if it’s...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jun 3, 2016 | Military and Combat, StressPoints
Best practices for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA or VA) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) identify psychopharmacology, stress inoculation, and trauma focused therapy (i.e. often exposure and/or...
by ISTSS Blogs | Jun 3, 2016 | Military and Combat, StressPoints
The Military Transition Theory aims to describe, explain and predict important aspects of transitions that occur throughout a service member’s military career, including: joining the military, deployments, moving from one duty station to another and leaving the...
