Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from a psychological view, it has to do a lot with the way family work and it conflict adjustment of a service member and their family pre and post deployment. Some of the studies on PTSD shows that the range of depression is about 10% to 20% following a deployment (Warner 2009). PTSD is a severe anxiety reaction to a traumatic event, such as rape or experiencing combat in war, in which individuals repeatedly relive the event, avoid stimuli associated with the trauma, and experience symptoms such as difficulty sleeping and irritability (ADAM, 2011). A soldier can come home with PTSD and not even know it and might not think anything is till something triggers. And this could
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The treatment of PTSD is very important to the soldier and their families so once a soldier return from deployment they can come back in a normal state of mind. Every soldier, air men, sailor or marine has its own reason to join the military so establishing a family bond is a big thing and yes unfortunately divorces do happen and it is currently at an all-time high in the military. During a deployment you are expected to be at your best fully trained and ready for anything but what kind of training is there for that returning soldier, upon returning home a soldier might be tendency to expect the same as their families. The effects of a military deployment to a combat zone are inevitable and every returning soldier experiences it in one way or another. I think that by increasing reintegration time, coupled with counseling for the families and soldier members, there will be a decrease in the work-family …show more content…
Suicidal intentions usually go hand to hand with depression, according to the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory (IPT), the repeated exposure to painful and provocative experiences that is routine to military training and experience can serve to habituate the service member to injury, pain, and death, thereby elevating capability (Warner 2009). “active duty personnel were found to have a higher level of acquired capability for suicide than a clinical civilian sample, including a sample of multiple suicide attempters. This is noteworthy given the well-established fact that multiple attempters are a clinically distinct group with greater levels of pathology and risk for future suicidal behaviors (Joiner et al.,
The treatment of PTSD is very important to the soldier and their families so once a soldier return from deployment they can come back in a normal state of mind. Every soldier, air men, sailor or marine has its own reason to join the military so establishing a family bond is a big thing and yes unfortunately divorces do happen and it is currently at an all-time high in the military. During a deployment you are expected to be at your best fully trained and ready for anything but what kind of training is there for that returning soldier, upon returning home a soldier might be tendency to expect the same as their families. The effects of a military deployment to a combat zone are inevitable and every returning soldier experiences it in one way or another. I think that by increasing reintegration time, coupled with counseling for the families and soldier members, there will be a decrease in the work-family …show more content…
Suicidal intentions usually go hand to hand with depression, according to the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory (IPT), the repeated exposure to painful and provocative experiences that is routine to military training and experience can serve to habituate the service member to injury, pain, and death, thereby elevating capability (Warner 2009). “active duty personnel were found to have a higher level of acquired capability for suicide than a clinical civilian sample, including a sample of multiple suicide attempters. This is noteworthy given the well-established fact that multiple attempters are a clinically distinct group with greater levels of pathology and risk for future suicidal behaviors (Joiner et al.,