Conscripted without Induction Order: Wives of Former Combat Veterans with PTSD Speak

Kimhi, Shaul; Doron, Hadas

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“…"Commitment" to the relationship was a key theme in this study, reflecting a "motivating quality which helps sustain coping effort" (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984, p. 63). "Commitment" was reinforced by a strong moral responsibility, a finding made in other studies of partners of veterans (Dekel et al, 2005;Kimhi, 2013;Lyons, 2001), as well as the acceptance of the dominant paradigm of mental illness. This paradigm views PTSD in veterans as an illness attributable to military service.…”

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“…There is, however, very limited literature that specifically examines the needs of partners caring for a veteran with PTSD. Even the limited numbers of qualitative studies undertaken with partners (Dekel, Goldblatt, Keidar, Solomon, & Polliack, 2005;Kimhi, 2013;Lyons, 2001;Verbosky & Ryan, 1988) are mainly based in clinical settings providing treatment for veterans and address need in terms of recommendations for counseling and therapy. Lack of research into needs of partners as perceived by the partners themselves could result in suggestions for interventions or services that fail to meet need.…”

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The Lived Experience of Caring for an Australian Military Veteran With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

2016

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A bst ractThere is limited literature on the experience of caring for an intimate partner with a mental health condition. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common mental health condition for military veterans; yet, little is known about how partners experience and cope with these caring relationships. Using an interpretive phenomenological approach, we collected data through individual interviews with 20 female partners of male veterans diagnosed with PTSD living in South Australia. W e found the emotional features of caring to be directly derived from the strength of commitment these carers had to their relationships. W e show that lack of understanding of carers' lives, particularly by health providers and government, has resulted in a sense of social disconnect and invisibility that has contributed to stress and is a barrier to coping. Of vital importance to these carers was that partners of younger veterans do not have to suffer the same experiences.

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The Lived Experience of Caring for an Australian Military Veteran With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

2016

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“…Many service members with post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and TBI may isolate themselves from family members and friends, which likely affects family experiences in negative ways. Other research has examined the impact of psychological trauma on the leisure of military wives (Kimhi & Doron, ), wherein wives indicated they participated in leisure activities with friends and other family members, as opposed to their spouses, because the psychological trauma kept their husbands from being able to leave their homes. The decrease in family leisure may be due to activities and experiences that trigger symptoms like anger, aggression, and hyperarousal; however, the impact of psychological traumas on military family leisure experiences has not been extensively studied.…”

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The Creation of Military Family Leisure Experiences

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Townsend

Hodge

2018

J of Family Theo & Revie

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This article provides a theoretical model that positions family leisure experiences as a mechanism for positive family outcomes and resilience in military families. The article integrates the Creation of Family Experiences (CFE) framework with literature on military families, family leisure, and structured experiences. The CFE framework is a conceptual model that provides a lens for examining the context of family activities in order to better identify benefits for human development and family relations. When contextualized within military settings, the CFE can be used to understand and systematically optimize military family leisure experiences. It is critical to consider the experiences of military families (e.g., relocation, deployment, reunion) and how those experiences interact with family leisure experiences to produce resilient families. Future research and practice should consider this application of the CFE framework when seeking to explain, support, and program recreation‐based activities for military families.

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“…Those studies that have examined women in the context of armed conflict have been confined to a number of specific and focused topics, namely, sexual harassment of women soldiers during their military service (Castro, Kintzle, Schuyler, Lucas, & Warner, ; Maguen et al, ; Mattocks et al, ; Wolfe et al, ); war widows and orphans (Kamya, ; Kumar, ); secondary traumatization of women spouses of combatants (Dekel & Monson, ; Kimhi & Doron, ); the effects of being in proximity to a war zone (Duramy, ; Hynes, ) or to a civil war (McKay, ); sexual crimes against civilian women in conflict zones (Cohen, ; Denov, ); and the comparative effect of childhood traumas on men and women soldiers (Kelley et al, ; Mota et al, ). An exception is the recent study of Jacobson, Donoho, Crum‐Cianflone, and Maguen, () examining gender differences among combatants who had been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan; they found that women and men combatants did not have a significantly different risk for developing PTSD.…”

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The Politics of Trauma Studies: What Can We Learn From Women Combatants' Experiences of Traumatic Events in Conflict Zones?

Daphna–Tekoah

Harel-Shalev

2016

Political Psychology

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Ayelet Harel-Shalev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Wars, combat, and political developments triggered the study of trauma. Knowledge about trauma initially emerged from the experiences of men combatants in the battlefield. At a later stage, the study of trauma focused on women and children subject to violence and abuse. The current research suggests that additional aspects of trauma can be understood through the study of competent women exposed to traumatic events and not merely as victims of war or abuse. The study offers an analysis of women combatants' narratives of their exposure to traumatic events in conflict zones. Data were obtained from two focus groups and a series of 30 personal interviews of women veterans who served in the IDF. Interviewing women combat soldiers revealed a variety of narratives of their war experiences, including the intertwining of the emotional and the physical. The window to understanding the trauma was opened by analysis of the responses of the women combatants to potentially traumatic events rather than by focusing on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) per se. We emphasize the need for a critical perspective in the study of trauma and combat trauma and propose that there is value in engaging with and listening to diverse narratives of trauma.KEY WORDS: women combatants, trauma, body, armed conflicts, war, feminist IR "I remember I didn't feel a thing. I had to pee before that, and when they brought the dead bodies and the wounded soldiers, I didn't feel anything. I didn't think about anything. I didn't have to pee anymore. I didn't feel that heaviness that I had before. I felt a mixture of stuff, and there was the smell. I remember the smell. I smell it now. I imagine a burnt smell, when hair is burned, like plastic. A burned body has a weird smell of burned plastic. It's not like a bonfire, it's that sort of smell. . .. I smelled it only from bodies. I remember I didn't feel a thing afterwards. One of the combat men soldiers puked and another one was nauseous. I ignored it and kept on doing stuff, taking care of them, like it wasn't a part of my life. This interview with you is the first time I'm telling about the bodies, like it's not a part of my life right now. (Scurfield, 2009;Turnbull, 1998) and its aftermath emerged from the emotional experiences and combat distress of men combatants (Finkelhor, Shattuck, Turner, & Hamby, 2014;Freud, 1920Freud, /2011. This research was later complemented by studies of the trauma of women and children as abused victims (Brownmiller, 1975;Walker, 1993). Current knowledge about trauma, therefore, stems from studies on combat men and victim women. In this context, we suggest that hegemonic masculinity influences the study of trauma, just as it influences and reinforces everyday practices of gendered identities (Kronsell, 2006, 109).Judith Herman, in her seminal work on " Trauma and Recovery" (1992), held that the systematic study of psychological trauma was initiated as a result of the evolvement of political movements and political ...

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Conscripted without Induction Order: Wives of Former Combat Veterans with PTSD Speak

Cited by 7 publications

References 40 publications

The Lived Experience of Caring for an Australian Military Veteran With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

The Lived Experience of Caring for an Australian Military Veteran With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

The Creation of Military Family Leisure Experiences

The Politics of Trauma Studies: What Can We Learn From Women Combatants' Experiences of Traumatic Events in Conflict Zones?

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