George W. Doherty

Crisis in the American Heartland -- Coming Home (eBook, ePUB)

Challenges of Returning Veterans (Volume 2)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Veterans in rural communities face unique challenges, who will step up to help?
Beginning with a brief scenario of a more gentle view of rural life, the book moves through learned information about families, children, and our returning National Guard and Reserve civilian military members. Return experiences will necessarily be different in rural and frontier settings than they are in suburban and urban environments. Our rural and frontier areas, especially in Western states with more isolated communities, less developed communication and limited access to medical, psychological and social services remain an important concern. This book helps provide some informed direction in working toward improving these as a general guide for mental health professionals working with Guard and Reserve members and families in rural/frontier settings. An appendix provides an in-depth list of online references for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
Specific areas of concern include:

Morale, deployment abroad, and stress factors

Effects of terrorism on children and families at home

Understanding survivor guilt

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and suicide

Preventing secondary traumatization

Resiliency among refugee populations and military families

Adjustment and re-integration following the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

Vicarious trauma and its effects on children and adults

How rural and remote communities differ from more urban ones following war experiences in readjusting military members

Characteristics important in therapists/counselors working with returning military

Doherty's second volume in this new series Crisis in the American Heartland explores these and many other issues. Each volume available in trade paper, hardcover, and eBook formats.

Learn more at www.RMRInstitute.org

PSY022040 Psychology : Psychopathology - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
SOC040000 Social Science : Disasters & Disaster Relief
HIS027170 Military - Iraq War (2003-)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Loving Healing Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781615991525
• Artikelnr.: 38175258

Autorenporträt

George Doherty resides in Laramie, WY where he founded the Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Institute, Inc. He is currently employed as the President/CEO of this organization and also serves as Clinical Coordinator of the Snowy Range Critical Incident Stress Management Team. He has been involved with disaster relief since 1995, serving as a Disaster Mental Health Specialist with such incidents as the UP train wreck in Laramie, Hurricane Fran in North Carolina, the Cincinnati floods in Falmouth, KY and Tropical Storm Allison in Southeast Texas. He served as Supervisor for Disaster Mental Health for flash floods in Ft. Collins, and spent a month as the Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Coordinator for western Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane George. He has also published numerous articles in disaster mental health and traumatic stress publications and served as Guest Editor for two Special Editions of the journal Traumatology (1999 & 2004). He served as an officer in the US Air Force and was an OTS instructor, squadron commander and other positions. Additionally, he served 11 years involved in Air Search & Rescue with Civil Air Patrol (US Air Force Auxiliary) in WY as Squadron Commander, Deputy Wing Commander, Air Operations Officer, and Master Observer. He is a Certified Instructor with the Wyoming Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST). He has extensive experience conducting CISM debriefings with first responders and others and is a member of a national crisis care network, providing assistance to companies and other organizations following critical incidents involving sudden deaths and similar traumatic events. Learn more at www.RMRInstitute.org