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The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms [Paperback]

In The PTSD Workbook, two psychologists and trauma experts gather together techniques and interventions used by PTSD experts from around the world to offer trauma survivors the most effective tools available to conquer their most distressing trauma-related symptoms. Readers learn how to determine the type of trauma they

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The Healing Heroes Book

A new book for Military Families has just been released 3rd January 2013 0 Comments A new and unique book has just been released that supports MILITARY FAMILIES who are facing changes due to the injury of someone they love: The Healing Heroes Book: Braving the Changes

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Veterans on the Road Home

Meeting the Mental Health and Substance Use Needs of Veterans Returning From Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom and Their Families Prepared for the National Council by Bruce D. Emery, MEd, MSW The U.S. military’s current mental health and addictions providers system, offered through the U.S.

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Once a Warrior–Always a Warrior: Navigating the Transition from Combat to Home–Including Combat Stress, PTSD, and mTBI [Paperback]

Book Description Publication Date: February 23, 2010   The essential handbook for anyone who has ever returned from a war zone, and their spouse, partner, or family members.  Being back home can be as difficult, if not more so, than the time spent serving in a combat zone.

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Shock Waves: A Practical Guide to Living with a Loved One’s PTSD [Paperback]

In the United States, about 60 percent of men and 50 percent of women experience, witness, or are affected by a traumatic event in their lifetimes. Many of them (8 percent of men and 20 percent of women) may develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)—a life-altering anxiety disorder.

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Recovering from the War: A Guide for All Veterans, Family Members, Friends and Therapists

Book Description Publication Date: May 10, 1998 | ISBN-10: 1892220075 | ISBN-13: 978-1892220073   A book every veteran will want to give his or her spouse, and every spouse will want to give his or her veteran. Recovering from the War is a systematic investigation of the costs

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Tears of a Warrior

  A Family’s Story of Combat and Living with PTSD… by Anthony & Janet Seahorn The Wounds of War are not always easy to see. Tears of a Warrior: A Family’s Story of Combat and Living with PTSDhas been our life’s journey for the past thirty-some years.

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When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans

About the Book Traumatized veterans returning from our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are often diagnosed as suffering from a psychological disorder and prescribed a regimen of psychotherapy and psychiatric drugs. But why, asks psychologist Paula J. Caplan in this impassioned book, is it a mental illness

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The War at Home: One Family’s Fight Against PTSD

When your soldier returns home to you, it should be a happy and joyful time. You are glad your spouse is safe and sound back home and can't wait to get your life going again. Everything should be great! But what if the homecoming is anything but

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U.S. Military 101 The "Basics" of the United States Military Reserve members fall within one of the four main branches of the military: Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy. Each branch has a group of reserves, but only the Air Force and Army attain a National Guard. In times of conflict and war, the President can call to duty all members of the reserves, but requires state approval for activation of the National Guard.

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