Author: ISBN : Product Detai New from Format: PDFDecades after Charles Figley’s landmark Trauma and Its Wake was published, our understanding of trauma has grown and deepened, but we still face considerable challenges when treating trauma survivors. This is especially the case for professionals who work with veterans and active-duty military personnel. War Trauma and Its Wake, then, is a vital book. The editors—one a Vietnam veteran who wrote the overview chapter on treatment for Trauma and Its Wake, the other an Army Reserve psychologist with four deployments—have produced a book that addresses both the specific needs of particular warrior communities as well as wider issues such as battlemind, guilt, suicide, and much, much more. The editors’ and contributors’ deep understanding of the issues that warriors face makes War Trauma and Its Wake a crucial book for understanding the military experience, and the lessons contained in its pages are essential for anyone committed to healing war trauma.
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Book Review
Reprinted with permission from the American Institute of Stress' COMBAT TRAUMA NEWSLETTER, January 2013
by Alison Lighthall, MSN, RN, Editor
Over the past decade, countless books have been published on the myriad issues surrounding the psychological impacts of war. From personal stories told in raw language to impersonal research data derived from both civilian and military organizations, there is no shortage of material to ponder regarding this most massive of human experiences.
But Dr.s Scurfield and Platoni, the editors of "War Trauma and It's Wake" are rare professional hybrids; they both served as officers deep inside their respective ground wars and then subsequently reached a level of clinical professionalism few attain. As such they are fluent in both military- and clinical-speak, and can therefore serve as translators across that great divide.
That bilingualism shows itself throughout the book in important ways. In the opening chapter, for instance, Platoni, a Colonel in the Medical Service Corps who has deployed to Guantanamo, Iraq, and Afghanistan, recounts the support system that the survivors spontaneously and instinctively assembled hours after her team was ruthlessly gunned down by another soldier--a traitor in every sense of the word--at Fort Hood November 5, 2009. Despite the unimaginable emotion such an incident must have evoked, she instead chooses to speak as a guide for the rest of us and highlight the adaptive responses she saw all around her.
The book is broken down into five parts.
General Comments
This is a powerful book about war and its effects on
people, on U.S. military personnel, on U.S. civilians and
on foreign civilians. However, as an edited book with
18 chapters written by 24 different authors, I suggest it
is not to be read from beginning to end as one would
read a novel by a single author. Rather I suggest that it
be thought of as a mini reference book to provide very
useful information for special topics of interest to the
reader. Accordingly, I have divided this review into four
topic areas, so that the reader can go to the areas of
interest to the reader. The four areas are: information
about the nature of war and "boots on the ground"
combat; information about returning war veterans
that would be useful in the treatment of the veterans;
information about psychological treatment procedures
that may be useful in general clinical practice; other
information useful to the mental health professional who
may work with military veterans.
In this general comments section I'd like to quote from
the foreword in the book. I believe the book foreword
helps to put things in proper perspective. To quote:
"The U.S. war in Iraq is over. Within a year or so, U.S.
troops will be returning from a nearly decade-long
war in Afghanistan, and there will be an extraordinary
drawdown of active-duty U.S. military personnel.
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