Battlemind Debriefing: A Case Study

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Breanna,
You provided some great ideas within your post regarding prevention and intervention measures for soldiers who may develop or has developed PTSD. Along with the army’s education groups and battlemind debriefing, battlemind training provided a substantial reduction on the PTSD checklist (Oltmanns & Emery, 2015, p. 185). However only to those who exposed to a great deal of combat events (Oltmanns & Emery, 2015, p. 185). According to the text, battlemind training can also assist with reframing redeployment issues as normal complications which require common occupational coping skills (Oltmanns & Emery, 2015, p. 185). Do you think a person can still be successful in battlemind training without first attending battlemind debriefing? Nice

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