Amy B. Adler

TL;DR: Assessment of the diagnostic efficiency of the Primary Care Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Screen and the Posttraumatic stress disorder Checklist as clinical screening tools for active duty soldiers recently returned from a combat deployment showed that both the PC-PTSD and PCL had good diagnostic efficiency.

TL;DR: In this article, a review identifies the core issues in early intervention that need to be addressed in resolving the debate over debriefing and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).

TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between the meaningfulness of work, personality hardiness, and deriving long-term benefits from a stressful event, and found that personalityhardiness was associated with being engaged in meaningful work during the deployment, which was strongly associated with deriving benefits from the deployment months after it was over.

TL;DR: Compared to stress education participants, large group Battlemind training participants with high combat exposure reported fewer posttraumatic stress symptoms and lower levels of stigma and, regardless of combat exposure, reported fewer depression symptoms.

TL;DR: It is found that negative attitudes about treatment inversely predicted treatment seeking among soldiers previously deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq and the need for policy aimed at reducing negative attitudes toward mental health treatment is highlighted.