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Military Sexual Trauma Annotated Bibliography

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Military Sexual Trauma: An Annotated Bibliography

"I Believe We Are the Fewer, the Prouder": Women’s Agency in Meaning-Making after Military Sexual Assault Journal of Contemporary Ethnography March 17, 2016
This article examines the documentation of the occurrences of military sexual trauma (MST) and also, its related mental and the physical consequences. It discusses the problems that women primarily have as victims as a reaction to their experience of being sexually assaulted. It helps understand how the victims make sense of what happened to them.

Impact of Gender on Reactions to Military Sexual Assault and Harassment Health Social Work February 20, 2014
This article shows us how research has indicated that the rate of military sexual trauma fluctuates depending on the way of assessment, also that experiences of harassment and military assault can have a negative impact on a person health and the way they function. In addition to understanding the general impression of the traumatic event, health care use, the association of MST and alcohol abuse, depression and even suicide. MST is also related to impaired health status, chronic problems and physical symptoms in veterans. The article reviews on how men and women who experience MST have gender specific issues and how it affects them in different …show more content…

It provides research that varies on gender, definition of what military sexual trauma is the risk factor in relation to enlisted rank, previous adult history, home life, and age. It informs of how military sexual trauma is associated with not just emotional but physical symptoms, diminished health, and an increase in chronic health issues that the veteran experiences. It explains on how military sexual trauma is associated with also depression and the increased chances of meeting the criteria of post-traumatic stress

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CMN 553 Unit 3 Journal The consequences of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) cuts across the age barrier of several mental illness, as it affects both the young and the old. Likewise, the understanding of the triggers, risk factors, symptoms, diagnostic features, and pharmacotherapeutic and psychotherapy options are some of the learning objectives for this unit’s clinical experience. Also, the ability to carefully weigh on some of the differential diagnosis prior to the inference of this disorder is paramount as the psychiatric nurse practitioner (PNP) student critically considers in other not to misdiagnosis the patient (Sadock, Sadock, & Ruiz, 2014).

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PTSD Affecting Soldiers He stood there, frozen, shocked, not knowing what to do when he saw a gun pointed at him. Thankfully, the trigger didn’t work, but he had to witness a scarring event, in which he had shot his enemy in the head. It is not surprising that soldiers returning from a stressful war often suffer from a psychological condition called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. For instance, in the book Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, the principle character Perry unmistakably demonstrates how war troopers can be damaged and experience the ill effects of PTSD.

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In this scholarly article researcher Tai Hawk evaluates PTSD as a whole analyzing the causes, effects, and possible outcomes of the self-described “epidemic”. Hawk analysis over 40 different forms of literature to bring forth his own conclusions and feasible theories. Hawk begins by giving a brief overview of why the cases of PTSD are increasing now then in earlier more violent wars, the answer is with advancing technology, and better healthcare soldiers outlive the trauma that they would have killed them 20 years earlier. Hawk later does an in depth review of the three forms of PTSD and their distinguishing features. The final criteria Hawk addressed was rehabilitation of veterans with PTSD and the difficulties that they must overcome, including

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For many years the only injury soldiers were believed to have could be seen with the naked eye; however, the real injuries are within the soldier’s mind. Most soldiers and victims of war suffer from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), their own minds become danger zones as they recall horrific experiences when they dream, think, or merely close their eyes. The emotional pain stays with the victim years after the war is over. The physical pain that a soldier or victim endures can be healed with time and care, the emotional trauma they deal with stays with them for a lifetime. The psychological pain that the victims endure usually goes unnoticed until after the traumatic event.

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Serving in the military can be a very traumatic experience. War entails a lot of conflict, shootings, and bombings. About twelve percent of all veterans suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Also, twenty-three percent of women reported sexual assault while serving in the military, and fifty-five percent reported having experienced sexual harassment when in the military. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is not the only mental illness that these conditions have caused.

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1. This paper will discuss the rapes that occur while in the military, and a way to spread awareness. 2. I interested in spearing awareness about this topic because the people put their life on the line every day to save us and we should be doing the same. Many of those men and women that get rape in the military are ashamed of admitting it, but I want to help them by inspiring them to speak up about it so the others can follow.

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Accompanying these weapons was the first emphasis on war trauma-related mental illness, with soldiers returning from battle with PTSD, misnomered and misunderstood as ‘shell-shock’. Rates of PTSD climbed steadily after World War II and the Vietnam War as weaponry became more and more advanced, reaching 12% of soldiers who saw direct combat in the Gulf War being diagnosed with PTSD afterwards (cite). Clearly, there is a strong connection between advanced weaponry and mental illness in soldiers, proving that violent weaponry negatively affects those who are forced to encounter

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in The Things They Carried During the turbulent times of the Vietnam War, thousands of young men entered the warzone and came face-to-face with unimaginable scenes of death, destruction, and turmoil. While some perished in the dense Asian jungles, others returned to American soil and were forced to confront their lingering combat trauma. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried provides distinct instances of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and reveals the psychological trauma felt by soldiers in the Vietnam War. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD for short, is the most common mental illness affecting soldiers both on and off the battlefield.

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Nearly 20 percent of 30,000 suicides are attributed to veterans each year (Cesar, Sabia & Tekin, 2012). This number represents a substantial number of military personnel suffering with mental health problems. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (2011) PTSD impairs one’s ability to function in social or family life, which includes instability, marital problems, divorce, family conflict, and difficulty in parenting (p. 3). PTSD causes much impairment and has many contributing factors; for that reason, it is important to discuss the quality of services available to

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All subjects had a written consent. The standards for the study was a diagnosis of PTSD based on the “CAPS” interview test. Participants were primarily white, Pacific Islander, or Asian. The subjects were either in the Army, Marines, Navy, and Air Force. They mainly served in the Vietnam War, OIF/OEF, or Operations Desert Storm/Shield

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“The relationship between trauma and social support, is the suggestion that the effects of social support may be used as a protective buffer and decrease the negative impacts of the trauma (Platt, Keyes, & Koenen, 2014).” Men and women who serve in the military are starting to become more aware of this and they are also speaking with each other when they return, as a tool to increase their resilience and to negate the sense of isolation that is

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Self-Reflection, Why I chose WMU College, and the decisions I had to make in regards to going, was not easy for me. Growing up in a house and a family where I am the first one to go to college, made everything about going to college a challenge. From a young age, going away is something I always wanted. Of course, my dream as a ten-year-old was to go to Michigan to be a Pediatric Neurosurgeon. And then, I took my first biology course my freshman year of high school, and that changed my plans drastically.

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Prolonged exposure therapy and cognitive processing therapy when compared to non-trauma psychotherapies showed similar symptom improvement, especially when compared after follow-up sessions. The current policy of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD recommends cognitive processing therapy and prolonged exposure therapy as first-line treatment. Though still inconclusive, some studies show that treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder show more positive outcomes for civilians than veterans. Speculation on this disparity suggests that this may be due to “extended, repeated, and intense nature of deployment trauma and the fact that service members are exposed not only to life threats but to traumatic losses and morally compromising experiences that may require different treatment approaches,” and recent meta-analyses that compared both civilian and military personnel responses to trauma focused and non-trauma focused psychotherapies found that patients with “complex trauma” (i.e. veterans and refugees) showed a smaller difference in effectiveness between trauma focused and non-trauma-focused psychotherapies than civilians, whose results favored trauma focused

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More than half of all male Vietnam veterans and almost half of all female Vietnam veterans have experienced clinically serious stress reaction symptoms.” PTSD has also been detected among veterans of other wars. ("PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress

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The process of reintegration, not only back into civilian life but also into family life, poses challenges to those service members who return uninjured during their service. This process of reintegration becomes even more challenging for the military family and service member when physical or mental injuries are incurred. In a research study conducted by the RAND Corporation (2011), children of military families were asked about challenges surrounding the deployed service member 's return home (Figure 4). Although there is so much more that can be explored and expounded on concerning the challenges of reintegration which impact the military family, the focus of this brief overview will now shift to the role of the social worker as it pertains to their work with military families in overcoming these

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