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Brain and Frontal Cortex
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Demographic and Behavioral Characteristics that Increase the Odds of Suicide
Divorce and Domestic Violence
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Feeling Alienated and Misunderstood
Finding Theta
Incidence of Military and Veteran Suicide
Mandatory Training in Mental Fitness
Peer-Education
Sexual Trauma
Stress Injury and Depression
Stress Response and DHEA
Warrior Culture
Product details
- ISBN 9781440875076
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2020
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Blending illustrative narratives from veterans with cutting-edge research, this book provides a model for a needed shift from treatment post-trauma to psychological training pre-trauma to prevent deep depression and resulting suicides.
As suicides among members of the U.S. military and veterans continue at a rate higher than in the general population—nearly 20 each day—and their calls for help become louder, with three veterans waiting for treatment outside Veterans Administration hospitals in 2019 committing suicide, authors and former U.S. Marines Kate Hendricks Thomas and Sarah Plummer Taylor present a call for a new approach to help halt the needless deaths.
Thomas, now a researcher and assistant professor of public health, and Plummer Taylor, now a social worker and adjunct professor, detail a plan to establish preventative training for mental fitness that will help psychologically "vaccinate" service members against depression and PTSD, the most common precursors to suicidal thoughts. Thomas and Plummer Taylor detail their mental fitness training program to shift from post-trauma treatment to pre-trauma prevention. Each topic addressed is illustrated with stories from veterans. Part of the solution, Thomas and Plummer Taylor explain, is to present prevention as something for all service members and as a positive, strength-building, challenging activity for champions, as opposed to a post-trauma treatment only for "weak and broken" warriors.
Kate Hendricks Thomas, PhD, is a Marine Corps veteran with a doctorate in health education and health promotion.
Sarah Plummer Taylor, MSW, is a Marine Corps veteran, counselor, consultant, and researcher with a focus on mental and behavioral health and community engagement.
