Psychotherapy with Traumatized Vietnam Combatants: An Overview of Individual, Group, and Family Treatment Modalities

Scaturo, Douglas J.; Hardoby, William

doi:10.1093/milmed/153.5.262

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“…Marriages and intimate relationships may be affected differently by PTSD depending on whether the traumatic event occurred before or after the relationship began (Scaturo and Hardoby 1988). For relationships that begin before war-related trauma occurs, the spouse may feel the veteran is no longer the man she married, creating a significant strain on the relationship.…”

Section: Pathways From Ptsd To Family Dysfunctionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Long-Term Trajectories and Service Needs for Military Families

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Palinkas

2013

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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The deployment of US military personnel to recent conflicts has been a significant stressor for their families; yet, we know relatively little about the long-term family effects of these deployments. Using data from prior military service eras, we review our current understanding of the long-term functioning and needs of military families. These data suggest that overseas deployment, exposure to combat, experiencing or participating in violence during war deployment, service member injury or disability, and combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) all have profound impacts on the functioning of military families. We offer several recommendations to address these impacts such as the provision of family-centered, trauma-informed resources to families of veterans with PTSD and veterans who experienced high levels of combat and war violence. Recent efforts to address the needs of caregivers of veterans should be evaluated and expanded, as necessary. We should also help military families plan for predictable life events likely to challenge their resilience and coping capacities. Future research should focus on the following: factors that mediate the relationship between PTSD, war atrocities, caregiver burden, and family dysfunction; effective family-centered interventions that can be scaled-up to meet the needs of a dispersed population; and system-level innovations necessary to ensure adequate access to these interventions.

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Section: Pathways From Ptsd To Family Dysfunctionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Long-Term Trajectories and Service Needs for Military Families

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Palinkas

2013

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“…In meetings and courtships which occur subsequent to the veteran's traumatic military experience and which result in marriage, it can be frequently assumed that the post-traumatic presentation and symptomatology became a significant component of the couple's attraction, attachment, and marital contract with one another (Scaturo and Hardoby, 1988). That is to say, the veteran's apparent need for assistance with PTSD symptomatology (whether war-related anxiety, pathological grief and depression, intrusive nightmares and recollections, etc.)…”

Section: Combat Trauma and Family Life Courtship And Mate Selectionmentioning

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“…In these relationships, the clinician must attempt to relieve the combat veteran's symptomatology without 'robbing' the spouse of her own helping or 'therapeutic' role in the marriage. At the very least, the therapist must assist the wife in finding more productive ways to retain her importance in the relationship so that the reduction of her husband's post-traumatic symptoms do not seriously threaten her own sense of well-being (Scaturo and Hardoby, 1988).4…”

Section: Combat Trauma and Family Life Courtship And Mate Selectionmentioning

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“…This notion is consistent with Grinker and Spiegel's (1945) classic work on abreactive and working through experiences in World War 11 veterans, as well as Kadushin and Boulanger's (1981) work on the benefit of a supportive versus an unsupportive family environment among Vietnam veterans. The clinical significance of these observations is considerable, since psychotherapy in general and family psychotherapy in particular are able to provide a context within which such discussions among family members might begin and be productive (Scaturo and Hardoby, 1988). It is within such a context that a marital commitment, or re-commitment, may then take place.…”

Section: Marriage and Marital Commitmentmentioning

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“…Clinical interventions may well have their greatest impact upon the families of veterans at this stage of development (Scaturo and Hardoby, 1988). Particularly critical at this time in life may be interventions which focus upon facilitating much needed dialogues between combat veterans, their spouses, their families of origin, and perhaps even conjoint consultations with their employers, to foster some shared understanding of the impact of their war experiences upon their everyday lives and, thereby, lessen their sense of existential isolation (Yalom, 1980).…”

Section: Marriage and Marital Commitmentmentioning

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Effectiveness of short‐term specialized inpatient treatment for war‐related posttraumatic stress disorder: A role for adventure‐based counseling and psychodrama

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Psychological tests were administered to 24 participants of an inpatient posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment program both immediately before and following completion of treatment. Responses were compared to a treatment/wait list comparison group composed of 24 subjects awaiting entry into the program. All treatment/wait list comparison group subjects received weekly PTSD outpatient group therapy. Significant improvements were found in the inpatient treatment group in areas of hopelessness, feelings of guilt and shame, loneliness, and emotional expressiveness. Other indices of psychological functional, including interpersonal skills, gender role stress, anxiety, anger, and PTSD symptomatology did not change significantly in response to treatment. No positive changes in any area of psychological function occurred in the treatment/wait list comparison group. Implications for PTSD and areas of future research are discussed.

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Psychotherapy with Traumatized Vietnam Combatants: An Overview of Individual, Group, and Family Treatment Modalities

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