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The next week, I was so eager to learn something new. The psychiatrist announced that it was the military week. This implies that he would spend long hours interacting with them because they were new clients. He needed to get good and solid information about every one of them. Most of the clients who worked in the military or who fought in the military, suffered from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD). The professor in the abnormal psychology textbook, noted that the diagnostic criteria for…

Through the years when veterans return home they are either treated as heros or outcasts. These men and women often have trouble finding jobs and some even need some form of treatment. With the lack of veteran programs most of these people do not get the proper aid they need when they return. A large number of them have trouble finding jobs to pay for the medical attention they desperately need. Veterans are discriminated against by the lack of programs to support them. Currently there are very…

The navigators withal ascertain the homeless vets get to their appointments by reminding phone calls and conveyance. Local officials and advocates set a goal of housing 222 veterans who fit the federal definition of chronic homelessness. So far, 187 vets are perpetually housed in dormitory complexes across the Valley. The rest are in transitional housing awaiting federal housing vouchers. (Lee, Prosperity in housing for homeless veterans in Phoenix touted, 2014) Finally, an often overlooked…

Jocelyn: What is the Veterans Center Initiative Grant Program? The Veterans Center Initiative Grant program is a collaborative partnership between Student Veterans of America and the Home Depot Foundation. Together, they donate money through grants to create welcoming and furnished spaces in colleges for student veterans. They provide financial support for furniture, technology and even moving into larger areas with more room. The Veterans Center Initiative Grant program has built or improved…

Veterans play an important role in society today and the history of not only America as a whole, but the people who live in it. They have earned us our freedom and our rights, and even continue to help even after leaving the battlefield, whether by actively playing a role in their community or going on living the lives they earned for America. Having no veterans would signify no victorious battles or even fights to begin with. The veterans that America celebrates show that America stood and…

Annotated Bibliography Silver, S. M., Brooks, A., & Obenchain, J. (2014). Treatment of Vietnam War veterans with PTSD: A comparison of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, biofeedback, and relaxation training. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 8, 337-341. This article presents a study of Vietnam Soldiers receiving inpatient treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. The author points out the lack of EMDR, biofeedback, and relaxation training after criticism was elaborated on. The…

With war there comes trauma, and not all the casualties of war experience only physical symptoms. It was during World War I that soldiers’ mental trauma became more popularly examined. We now know that traumatic events can leave someone experiencing PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Back in 1914, soldiers fighting in the war had their own version called “shell shock”. In the beginning of World War I, British soldiers began to report medical symptoms after combat such as amnesia,…

Nasiri Khoozani, E., & Hadzic, M. stated, that the idea of stress in psychology describes the organism’s adjusting physiological, cognitive and behavioral reactions to difficult, and unsafe environments. There are so many different types of stress that it is difficult to put the findings and issues together because there are so many different meanings to all of these types of stress. For example, there is work stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, school stress, family stress, etc. All of…

In 1980, PTSD was officially added to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Friedman). “PTSD, or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, is a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of a life-threatening events such as military combat, natural disasters, terrorists incidents, serious accidents, or physical or sexual assault in adult or childhood” (“Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”). Recently PTSD service dogs have…

A large part of the costs of service dogs is often times offset by volunteer puppy raisers. Volunteers teach the basics; to sit, walk on a leash, house training, and other basic commands. Professional trainers that provide formal training charge around $20,000 to train one dog. If the puppy raisers are paid, the cost can potentially double (Service Dogs). The term “intelligence disobedience” is an essential part of training a guide dog. This means that the dog knows not to follow a command if…