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An Occupational Mental Health Model for the Military
Amy B. Adler,Carl A. Castro +1 more
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The components of the occupational health model are detailed, using post-traumatic stress disorder as an example, and the role of organizational culture, training and the social environment in understanding service member strengths, reactions to events and behavioral health care decision making is highlighted.Abstract:
The military occupational mental health model provides a framework for understanding the relationship between occupationally relevant demands and subsequent mental health adjustment, taking into account individual and organizational resources that can mitigate the impact of those demands. In the case of high-risk occupations like the military, the model can account for the presence of psychological reactions prior to exposure to potentially traumatic events, widen the domain of reactions typically considered, and suggest a different trajectory of symptoms. This article details the components of the occupational health model, using post-traumatic stress disorder as an example, and highlights the role of organizational culture, training and the social environment in understanding service member strengths, reactions to events and behavioral health care decision making. The occupational context has implications for training, early intervention and treatment, and can promote an organization's systematic approa...read more
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Suicides in the military: the post-modern combat veteran and the Hemingway effect
Carl A. Castro,Sara Kintzle +1 more
TL;DR: The Interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide and the military transition theory are introduced as guiding frameworks for understanding suicides and suicidal behavior amongst active military personnel and military veterans.
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Distinct Trauma Types in Military Service Members Seeking Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Brett T. Litz,Brett T. Litz,Ateka A. Contractor,Ateka A. Contractor,Charla Rhodes,Katherine A. Dondanville,Alexander H. Jordan,Alexander H. Jordan,Patricia A. Resick,Edna B. Foa,Stacey Young-McCaughan,Jim Mintz,Jeffrey S Yarvis,Alan L. Peterson,Alan L. Peterson +14 more
TL;DR: The frequency of trauma types reported in a cohort of service members seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and compared symptom profiles between types were examined and war zone traumas were heterogeneous, and non-life- Threat types were associated with distinct symptoms and problems.
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Building social resilience in soldiers: A double dissociative randomized controlled study.
John T. Cacioppo,Amy B. Adler,Paul B. Lester,Dennis McGurk,Jeffrey L. Thomas,Hsi-Yuan Chen,Stephanie Cacioppo +6 more
TL;DR: Results of a double-dissociative randomized controlled study in which 48 Army platoons were randomly assigned to social resilience training or cultural awareness training indicated that social resilience, compared with cultural awareness, training produced small but significant improvements in social cognition and decreased loneliness.
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Understanding Barriers to Mental Health Care for Recent War Veterans Through Photovoice
TL;DR: Photovoice methods and community-based participatory research approaches, which have rarely been used with veterans, hold great promise for informing effective interventions to improve access and enhance provision of patient-centered care for veterans.
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Combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, mental health problems, and barriers to care.
Charles W. Hoge,Carl A. Castro,Stephen C. Messer,Dennis McGurk,Dave I. Cotting,Robert L. Koffman +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the mental health of four U.S. combat infantry units (three Army units and one Marine Corps unit) using an anonymous survey that was administered to the subjects either before their deployment to Iraq (n=2530) or three to four months after their return from combat duty in Iraq or Afghanistan (n =3671).