Combat Social Work (eBook, ePUB)

Applying the Lessons of War to the Realities of Human Services
Redaktion: Figley, Charles R.; Thyer, Bruce A.; Yarvis, Jeffrey S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Social workers have a long, proud history of service in most branches of the United States military. The experiences of social workers and other human service professionals of all military ranks have an important, often profound, and lasting impact that informs not only their practice within the military but throughout their career long after they have left the combat zone. In exploring the experiences of 13 American combat social workers (CSWs)--whose role is, among other things, providing military mental health services to members in their unit--this book shares lessons from military service through the lens of social work practitioners. The text includes strategies learned about social work practice in a war zone that are highly applicable to other highly stressful contexts (e.g., crisis intervention, stress reduction procedures, suicide prevention, brief psychotherapy, and consultation on family issues). Combat Social Work is uniquely positioned to serve as a valuable resource for social workers and other mental health providers interested in the assessment and treatment of trauma with active members of the military and military veterans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190059453
• Artikelnr.: 58869496

Autorenporträt

Charles R. Figley, PhD, is the Paul Henry Kurzweg, MD Distinguished Chair in Disaster Mental Health; Director of the Traumatology Institute; and Professor in the School of Social Work at Tulane University. COL Jeffrey S. Yarvis PhD, LCSW, BCD is a 34 year veteran of the U.S. Army, former commander of a combat hospital and decorated combat veteran as a social worker earning the Bronze Star Medal and Combat Action Badge for leadership and actions taken under fire. He is also an adjunct professor for Texas A&M University-Central Texas. Bruce Thyer, PhD, MSW, is Distinguished Research Professor in the College of Social Work at Florida State University. Dr. Thyer is a veteran of the United States Army.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contributors
* Introduction
* Section 1. Orientation to Combat and the Combat Social Worker
* Chapter 1. The Life of a Combat Social Worker
* Jeffrey S. Yarvis
* Chapter 2. Life After Deployment: The Work of Combat Social Work in
Garrison
* Jeffrey S. Yarvis and Charles R. Figley
* Section 2. Combat Social Worker Stories and Lessons
* Chapter 3. Dark Mornings to New Beginnings
* Shad Meshad
* Chapter 4. Combat Social Work in Vietnam, 1968-1969
* Raymond Monsour Scurfield
* Chapter 5. The Journey of Serving as an Army Reserve Social Worker
* Vaughn A. DeCoster
* Chapter 6. War Stories of a Brigade Behavioral Health Officer
* Debra M. Stone
* Chapter 7. Combat Social Work in Afghanistan, 2010-2011: An Interview
with Thomas Stokes
* Thomas J. Stokes with Naomi North
* Chapter 8. Deployment of a Social Worker
* Eric J. Kirwan
* Chapter 9. Navy Combat Social Worker
* Alyssa L. Gibbons
* Chapter 10. The Professor Goes to War: Serving as Team Leader for a
Combat Stress Unit in Iraq
* Cathleen A. Lewandowski
* Chapter 11. Combat Social Work in Afghanistan, 2009-2010: Leading a
Combat Stress Control Detachment
* Randal C. Nedegaard
* Chapter 12. Triumph Over Adversity: A Journey From Vietnam's Son to
Combat's Healer
* Christopher Lee Atkins
* Chapter 13. Social Work at Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam,
Afghanistan
* Dan M. Grinstead
* Section 3. Conclusions for Paying Forward the Lessons of War
* Chapter 14. Ted Studebaker: Combat Social Worker Warrior for Peace
* Bruce A. Thyer
* Chapter 15. Combat Social Work: Preparing the Next Generation of
Practitioners
* Charles R. Figley, Jeffrey S. Yarvis, and Bruce A. Thyer