The National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study
Author : Richard A. Kulka
Publisher : Brunner/Mazel Publisher
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Richard A. Kulka
Publisher : Brunner/Mazel Publisher
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Richard A. Kulka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317772482
Surveys psychiatric disorders among Vietnam veterans.
Author : Bruce Philip Dohrenwend
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0190904445
Uniquely using historical material and military records as well as personal interviews and clinical diagnoses, Surviving Vietnam focuses on veterans' war-zone experiences and the development in some of PTSD. It addresses controversies regarding reported rates of PTSD and the importance of exposure to traumatic events compared with pre-war personal vulnerability.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309152852
Nearly 1.9 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001. Many service members and veterans face serious challenges in readjusting to normal life after returning home. This initial book presents findings on the most critical challenges, and lays out the blueprint for the second phase of the study to determine how best to meet the needs of returning troops and their families.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Post-traumatic stress disorder
ISBN :
Author : Wilbur J. Scott
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release :
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780202367972
Veterans of all wars face a demanding task in readjusting to civilian life. Vietnam veterans have borne an additional burden, having returned from a controversial war that ended in defeat for the United States and South Vietnam. To address this situation, leaders among the Vietnam veterans and their allies formed organizations of their own to articulate their problems and extract concessions from a reluctant Congress, Federal agencies, and courts. Scott, a former infantry platoon leader in Vietnam, describes the major social movements among his fellow veterans during the period of 196 to 1990 in a lively narrative, combining personal interviews with documentary and press records. Included in the book are the âsociological storiesâ of protests against the war in Operations RAW and Dewey Canyon III: the successful effort to place post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Third Edition (DSM-III), of the American Psychiatric Association; the building of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., despite fierce opposition; and the long-running controversy over the herbicide Agent Orange. In the last chapter the author details the sociological thinking that informs his stories, and develops the implications for understanding social movements in general and veterans' issues in particular.
Author : Jack Tsai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0190695137
The challenges facing military veterans who return to civilian life in the United States are persistent and well documented. But for all the political outcry and attempts to improve military members' readjustments, veterans of all service eras face formidable obstacles related to mental health, substance abuse, employment, and — most damningly — homelessness. Homelessness Among U.S. Veterans synthesizes the new glut of research on veteran homelessness — geographic trends, root causes, effective and ineffective interventions to mitigate it — in a format that provides a needed reference as this public health fight continues to be fought. Codifying the data and research from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) campaign to end veteran homelessness, psychologist Jack Tsai links disparate lines of research to produce an advanced and elegant resource on a defining social issue of our time.
Author : Karl Marlantes
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802197167
Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition. Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers. But when the company finds itself surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines are thrust into the raw and all-consuming terror of combat. The experience will change them forever. Written by a highly decorated Marine veteran over the course of thirty years, Matterhorn is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life an entire world—both its horrors and its thrills—and seems destined to become a classic of combat literature.
Author : David H. Marlowe
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Combat
ISBN : 9780833026859
The overall patterns of research findings demonstrate that stress-such as that which characterized Gulf War deployment, combat, and return home-is a contributing factor to many illnesses. This book argues for greater understanding of the complexity of symptoms and potential causes of combat-related stress.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2007-08-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309105528
The scars of war take many forms: the limb lost, the illness brought on by a battlefield exposure, and, for some, the psychological toll of encountering an extremely traumatic event. PTSD Compensation and Military Service presents a thorough assessment of how the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs evaluates veterans with possible posttraumatic stress disorder and determines the level of disability support to which they are entitled. The book presents a history of mental health disability compensation of military personnel and reviews the current compensation and pension examination procedure and disability determination methodology. It offers a number of recommendations for changes that would improve the fairness, consistency, and scientific foundation of this vital program. This book will be of interest and importance to policy makers, veterans affairs groups, the armed forces, health care organizations, and veterans themselves.