Outside the Military “Bubble”: Life After Service for UK Ex-armed Forces Personnel

Gordon, Kim; Burnell, Karen; Wilson, Cläre

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2020.00050

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“…Research into military identity suggests soldiers often find it difficult to transition back into “civilian life” (Gordon et al, 2020). Woodward and Jenkings (2011) demonstrated that British military personnel conceptualized their identity by discussing the professional skill and expertise of military personnel and through participation in military events.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research into military identity demonstrates that military personnel often find the transition back into “civilian life” difficult after the identity‐strengthening experience of being in the military (e.g., Gordon, Burnell, & Wilson, 2020). As a result of these uncertain transitions, military personnel tend to partake in postservice activities that maintain continuity with their military identity (Higate, 2001; Jolly, 1996).…”

Section: Loyalist Paramilitary Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Conflict Transformation: Relinquishing or Maintaining Social Identity Among Former Loyalist Combatants in Northern Ireland

Flack

Ferguson

2020

Political Psychology

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This study explored the accounts of former loyalist combatants now involved in conflict transformation, preventing violent extremism and peace‐building work. To understand how former loyalist combatants negotiate their dramatic change in context and function, we analyzed accounts of peace building through thematic analysis. The themes demonstrated that conducting conflict transformation is expressively linked to former combatant identity. The themes also demonstrate that former combatants construct identity continuity by viewing their current transformative actions as an evolution of their militant activity during the Troubles. The article concludes on the implications of these identity maintenance strategies for former combatants and, more widely, what implications this has for other militants transitioning from conflict or extremism towards peace.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Loyalist Paramilitary Organizationsmentioning

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Conflict Transformation: Relinquishing or Maintaining Social Identity Among Former Loyalist Combatants in Northern Ireland

Flack

Ferguson

2020

Political Psychology

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“…In fact, research suggests that the home-coming and reorientation phase may be both challenging and taxing (Beder, 2012;Gordon, Burnell, & Wilson, 2020;Jolly, 1996;Lifton, 1992;Moore, 2012;Shay, 2002). In addition to family-related moral distress from a spatial perspective which can generate guilt/shame prior to or during deployment, moral rumination about decisions and/or situations on deployment which felt wrong for the individual may accelerate over time.…”

Section: Synthesizing Two Theoretical Constructs To Advance the Undermentioning

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An advanced perspective on moral challenges and their health-related outcomes through an integration of the moral distress and moral injury theories

Grimell

Nilsson

2020

Military Psychology

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Both the models of moral distress and of moral injury place an emphasis on various types of moral challenges that may violate the individual’s conscience, evoking moral emotions. Yet, there appears to be great conceptual confusion as regards both scholarly perspectives. The purpose of this article is to further elaborate on the qualitative content and conceptual demarcations of the theories of moral injury and moral distress. In the light of this theoretical elaboration, we propose an integrated moral distress and injury scale that provides a more holistic overview of these moral challenges. We suggest that the utility and applicability of the moral injury and moral distress theories may benefit from the integration of these concepts. A practical implication of our theoretical understanding is that processes of recovery, which involve moral dimensions, are complex. In line with this understanding, we advocate a holistic approach to health and well-being among military service members and Veterans.

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“…The content of these stages, at present, is described in detail in the relevant documents, recommendations, guidelines. The logic of the rehabilitation approach is to first prepare combat veterans, disabled people for active psychotherapeutic cooperation by removing irrelevant stress, aggression, mistrust, to study their psychological characteristics and the specifics of psychological problems (Demers, 2011;Gordon, Burnell, Wilson, 2020).…”

Section: Psychological Rehabilitation: Determinantsmentioning

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“…For people with disabilities with injuries of the lower extremities, an important rehabilitation act is dosed therapeutic walking (on a wheelchair, with crutches, with a stick, etc.). At the second stage, the solution of psychological problems of the rehabilitated is carried out (Gordon, Burnell, Wilson, 2020). The third stage, as a rule, is aimed at personal growth, development of communicative competence and activity, the formation of "taste" for social contacts (Horbunova, 2016).…”

Section: Psychological Rehabilitation: Determinantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological Rehabilitation (Including Emotional Readaptation) of Servicemen after Returning from the Combat Zone

Melnyk

Mushkevych

2020

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<p>W artykule przedstawiono istotę zasad teoretycznych związanych z rehabilitacją zawodową, psychologiczną i społeczną żołnierzy, którzy powrócili ze strefy walki we wschodniej Ukrainie. Należy podkreślić, że rehabilitacja psychologiczna jest uważana za rodzaj pomocy psychologicznej, która ma na celu przywrócenie utraconych (lub dysfunkcyjnych) zdolności poznawczych, funkcjonowania emocjonalnego i zdrowia. Przedmiotem rehabilitacji psychologicznej są osoby, które podejmują pokonanie traumy psychicznej, występującej w formie ostrej lub przewlekłej. Opisano następujące zasady rehabilitacji psychologicznej: zasadę zapobiegania, zasadę pilności, zasadę bliskości instytucji rehabilitacyjnych w stosunku do linii walki, zasadę prostoty środków, zasadę ciągłości i indywidualizacji środków. Ponadto wskazano na doświadczenie bezpośredniej rehabilitacji w wojsku; podano zalecenia dotyczące optymalizacji procesu rehabilitacji. Zaakcentowano, że w procesie rehabilitacji jest miejsce zarówno na odblokowanie zasobów osobistych psychologicznych żołnierzy, jak i stworzenie emocjonalnie wspierającej atmosfery grupowej. Proces rehabilitacji może też obejmować wdrożenie psychoterapii indywidualnej i grupowej oraz szkolenie skutecznych umiejętności komunikacyjnych.</p>

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Outside the Military “Bubble”: Life After Service for UK Ex-armed Forces Personnel

Cited by 22 publications

References 75 publications

Conflict Transformation: Relinquishing or Maintaining Social Identity Among Former Loyalist Combatants in Northern Ireland

Conflict Transformation: Relinquishing or Maintaining Social Identity Among Former Loyalist Combatants in Northern Ireland

An advanced perspective on moral challenges and their health-related outcomes through an integration of the moral distress and moral injury theories

Psychological Rehabilitation (Including Emotional Readaptation) of Servicemen after Returning from the Combat Zone

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