Research shows that family supports can mitigate military-service related Behavioral Health (BH) problems. As women play a growing role in military operations, it is important to assess if relationships between family ties and coping skills are the same for servicemen and servic…
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The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a yoga therapy program for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with symptoms of PTSD. The program aims to help veterans to use their body as a tool in therapy, to develop self-soothing skills, and to process, organize and inte…
Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Veterans of combat is currently one of the timeliest topics in health care. PTSD diagnosis rates are soaring amongst returning Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan (OIF/OEF/OND). The Department of Defense and the Veterans Health…
Medical experts claim that Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among United States military service personnel, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan has contributed to an "epidemic of suicide" in the U.S. However, veterans, military commanders, and mental health providers argue that feel…
As high numbers of veterans continue to return from the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, an increasing body of research examines health and mental health issues relevant to this population. Much of this research has uncovered a strong comorbidity between PTSD and mild t…
The aim of this doctoral project is to examine the mental health needs of the immigrant Lebanese community in the United States, particularly those related to trauma symptomatology resulting from experiences of political instability and many years of civil war in Lebanon. Many L…
This study focuses on the prevalence and severity of post-traumatic stress symptoms in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel. Summative PTSD Checklist (PCL-C) scores were collected and analyzed from 102 active, adult EMS professionals working in Pennsylvania. Data analysis …
There have been increased concerns regarding readjustment issues for military veterans after combat service that can include problems related to intimate relationships. Approximately two million service members have served in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq the past decade. This st…
Sleep disturbance is common in military and Veteran populations with an estimated 41% of deployed active duty OIF/OEF service members experiencing problems related to sleep. Insomnia and related physiological/ psychological sequelae set these individuals up for subsequent physic…
More than 2.2 million US service members have seen deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade. As the number of veterans returning home has increased, the need for new and innovative approaches to the variety and severity of mental health issues experienced after de…
While museums, in particular history and military museums, have long included representations of war and soldiers, there is one area that is not as visible: that of the veteran who returns home from war physically intact, but psychologically scarred, perhaps suffering from post-…
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars tremendously increased the demand among veterans for mental health services. About two in every five veterans returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom will have mental health challenges -- resulting in 500,000 to 800,000…
This research explores the lived experience of Navy Hospital Corpsmen (medics) who have served in combat with U.S. Marine Corps units in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. It uses interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) to examine both the lived experiences and the derived meaning of…
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease and relationship difficulties. Greater exposure to couple conflict, and greater emotional and cardiovascular reactivity to such conflict, may help explain the link between PTSD and …
This creative thesis comprises the first three chapters of Holding Her Own, a novel which explores the career of a young warrant officer who trains on the AH-64 Apache helicopter two years after the United States Army lifts the ban on women in combat aviation. Seventeen-year-old…
The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation of dual diagnosis of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in combat veterans and demographic factors which may correlate with PTSD diagnosis. The study focused on post-9/11 combat vetera…
Individuals who have served in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have likely been exposed to combat stress. Existing literature has consistently demonstrated the negative impact of combat stress as a risk factor for post-deployment health issues, such as posttraumatic stress…
Veterans of the recent military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have been the subject of multiple studies, with the majority focusing on elevated rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other related negative outcomes (traumatic brain injury, suicide, marital problem…
On August 1, 2009, a radically different and more financially generous GI Bill, the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, took effect, with potential implication for institutions of higher education (Radford, 2009). In conjunction with expanded education benefit…