Prevention Efforts for Personnel Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with Combat Stress Reactions

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Wahlberg ◽  
Robert Ireland ◽  
Larry Lehmann ◽  
Patricia Watson ◽  
Barbara Dausch
Keyword(s):  
Combat Stress ◽  
Stress Reactions

Psychological and psychiatric aspects of rehabilitation participants in the karabakh war

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1592-1592
Author(s):  
E. Mehdiyev
Keyword(s):  
Medical Psychology ◽  
Combat Stress ◽  
Stress Reactions ◽  
Working Ability ◽  
Considerable Decrease ◽  
Psychic Disorders ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Rehabilitation Measures ◽  
Combat Environment

Most often in combat environment adaptive and disadaptive registers of prepathologic level as well as prenosologic registers of pathologic level of psychic disorders are observed in servicemen. Acute psychologic and pathologic reactions of prenosologic level are predominant, with a considerable decrease of reactive psychoses, especially of their persisting forms.Principal peculiarity of the system of psychological correction and medicopsychological rehabilitation of combatants with combat stress reactions is, alongside with the detection and treatment of psychic disorders, its orientation to the restoration of their combat ability, if they are to participate in combat actions, and the restoration of their working ability, if they are to resume peaceful life. The author worked out approaches to the creation of a system of medicopsychologic and psychocorrective rehabilitation measures for this group’ of persons and suggested a number of original psychotherapeutic methods.The realization of psychocorrective and medicopsychologic rehabilitation measures oversteps the competence limits of psychiatrists alone and can be effective if their efforts are combined with the activity of specialists in psychophysiology, social and medical psychology, narcology and some other fields.

Combat Stress Reactions During Military Deployments: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Combat Stress Control Treatment

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aron Potter ◽  
Monty Baker ◽  
Carmen Sanders ◽  
Alan Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Service Members ◽  
Control Treatment ◽  
Combat Stress ◽  
Stress Reactions ◽  
Operational Stress ◽  
Stress Control ◽  
Pilot Investigation ◽  
Mental Health Treatments

Few studies have evaluated the effectiveness of mental health treatments for the combat stress reactions of military service members treated in deployed locations. The present pilot investigation is the first report on the effectiveness of a Combat Stress Control (CSC) unit treatment for deployed service members. Thirty-eight United States military personnel (33 men and 5 women) completed a 2-day CSC unit program at Balad Air Base, Iraq. The program included individual and group treatments to reduce the symptoms of combat operational stress reactions and to improve coping strategies, stress management skills, and interpersonal relationships. Measures used included the Outcome Questionnaire-45 (OQ-45) and the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Military version (PCL-M). The study found significant decreases on the OQ-45 and the PCL-M. These results provide preliminary data to support the use of CSC units to treat combat operational stress reactions in the field.

scholarly journals Acute military psychiatric casualties from the war in Iraq

2005 ◽  
Vol 186 (6) ◽  
pp. 476-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Turner ◽  
Mathew D. Kiernan ◽  
Andrew G. McKechanie ◽  
Peter J. C. Finch ◽  
Frank B. McManus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Combat Stress ◽  
Stress Reactions ◽  
Aeromedical Evacuation ◽  
Military Psychiatry ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

BackgroundThe view that most military personnel evacuated from war zones are suffering from combat stress reactions, or are otherwise traumatised by the horrors of war, has an impact on all aspects of military psychiatry.AimsTo delineate the reasons for psychiatric aeromedical evacuation from Iraq from the start of build-up of UK forces in January 2003 until the end of October that year, 6 months after the end of formal hostilities.MethodA retrospective study was conducted of field and in-patient psychiatric assessments of 116 military personnel evacuated to the UK military psychiatric in-patient facility in Catterick Garrison.ResultsEvacuees were mainly non-combatants (69%). A significant proportion were in reserve service (21%) and had a history of contact with mental health services (37%). Only 3% had a combat stress reaction. In over 85% of cases evacuation was for low mood attributed to separation from friends or family, or difficulties adjusting to the environment.ConclusionsThese findings have implications especially for screening for suitability for deployment, and for understanding any longer-term mental health problems arising in veterans from Iraq.

Confronting combat stress reactions

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archie P. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Combat Stress ◽  
Stress Reactions

Aftermaths of combat stress reactions: A three-year study

1992 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahava Solomon ◽  
Mario Mikulincer
Keyword(s):  
Combat Stress ◽  
Stress Reactions
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