Once a warrior, always a warrior : navigating the transition from combat to home--including combat stress, PTSD, and mTBI / Charles W. Hoge

Author: Hoge, Charles W.
Published: Guilford, Conn. : GPP Life, [2010]
Copyright Date: ©2010
Physical Description: xxiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents

Combat stress and post-traumatic stress disorder -- Combat mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI/concussion) -- Navigating the home-zone area of operations: introduction to "LANDNAV" -- Life survival skills, warrior reflexes and sleep -- Skill 1: become more aware of your reactions by writing about them -- Skill 2: learn to accept your reactions without judgment or anger -- Skill 3: improve physical conditioning and relax muscle tension -- Skill 4: improve sleep -- Skill 5: learn how alcohol or drugs affect your reactions -- Attend to and modulate your reactions -- Skill 1: learn to pay attention to your physiological reactions and anxiety level -- Skill 2: learn to pay attention to your feelings and emotions -- Skill 3: create space between your reactions to stressful events and behaviors -- Skill 4: learn to monitor and eliminate "should" and related words or phrases -- Skill 5: notice your breathing -- Skill 6: improve your focus and attention through meditation and mindfulness -- Narrate your story -- Deal with stressful situations -- Skill 1: resiliency inoculation training (facing your fears) -- Skill 2: dealing with the "stupid stuff" people do -- Skill 3: dealing with more-serious situations involving people -- Skill 4: dealing with anger, rage, and related emotions -- and Navigate the mental health care system -- Stigma and other barriers to care -- Road map for getting help -- Types of treatment offered: the cold, hard facts -- Disability and treatment -- Acceptance: living and coping with major losses -- Skill 1: understanding the emotions of loss -- Skill 2: exploring the connections between complex and primary emotions -- Skill 3: letting go of unanswerable questions -- Skill 4: coping with grief and survivor's guilt -- Skill 5: accepting other difficult events that happened in combat -- Navigation strategies for spouses, partners, and family members -- Deployment affects everyone -- Your strength and independence -- Tapping into your resources -- Strengthening your relationship and considerations for coping with postwar reactions of your warrior -- Considerations for coping with infidelity -- Helping your children cope with the stresses of deployment and transition -- V = The "V"s!--vision, voice, village, joie de vivre, victory.

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ISBN

9780762754427
0762754427

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition

Mont Alto copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2009.

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