“…Combat is traumatic, and when soldiers are captured by the enemy their trauma is compounded 10-fold (Levin, Greene, & Solomon, 2016). Because prisoners of war (POWs) are controlled by their captors with no means of escape, captivity equates with deprivation, intimidation, punishment, physical deterioration, illness, and debilitation (Herman, 1992; King et al, 2015). Prisoner-of-war trauma is one of the highest predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and POWs are at risk of complex trauma (Dikel, Engdahl, & Eberly, 2005; Rintamaki, Weaver, Elbaum, Klama, & Miskevics, 2009).…”