United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs

because within military culture an individual is expected to remain strong and deal with problems without complaint (Milburn & Lightfoot, 2013). For those children of parents who serve in National Guard or Reserve units, the issues of lack of communication may be even more exacerbated because they have very few friends that share similar experiences and related emotional stressors. Secondary Trauma Stress. Surveys conducted among military families suggests that spouses and children of…

SAMHSA’s wellness initiative aims to promote wellness for people with mental health and also substance use conditions where the goal is to inspire individuals, families, behavioral health primary care providers, as well as peer-run, faith based and other community organization to improve health behaviors. The eight dimensions of wellness include: Emotional, which is coping effectively with life and creating satisfying relationships’; environmental which is good health by occupying pleasant,…

trash truck, thought there was a bomb in his house. He ran through the house searching in the closet, in the refrigerator, in the dishwasher, and the bedrooms trying to find the bomb. In reality, there was no bomb. Joe came home from the war with many challenges to overcome. One of the many challenges was that he stayed in fighting mode for a long. Coming home after the war veterans struggle, though they often try to hide it. When people think of veterans, they picture them as strong and…

challenges in which they survived and the comparative mundaneness of everyday life. Almost all survivors will face this problem at some point in their life. One of the most common victims of this struggle are veterans. Jonathan Kirk Davis, in his article titled “How Do Military Veterans Feel When They Return Home From Combat?”, describes how members of the military treat one another when he says, “We are harsh with each other don’t often act with kindness or gentleness with one another”…

seeing their friends blow up or getting shot at and although there time passed from when they watched it, it is a traumatic experience. Dr. Wayne Jonas, a retired army medical officer, discussed many of the challenges military personnel as well as veterans face in the Escape Fire video. The video showed many active military troops taking a ridiculous amount of pharmaceuticals for the pain, stress and for the resilience of the body, but that could all stop with different techniques. Throughout…

Various commissioned and noncommissioned Officers in the United States Army have had significant impacts on the military. The Generals of World War II, Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, and Bradley, swiftly come to mind. There are, however, other Generals who left a lasting impact once their service was complete. One exceptional individual was General Creighton Abrams. His long stint in the US Army stretched to include positions served during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. During…

High rates of PTSD in Iraq War veterans are being seen, as well as a number of other difficulties, including alcohol and drug use, and depression. This may not be too surprising to read as the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are in the news everyday, as are reports of their effect on the mental health of the men and women serving there. A majority of service members in Iraq and Afghanistan have encountered traumatic experiences and high rates of PTSD and other difficulties have been found.…

Soldiers that fight for our country sadly are not noticed by some of the people who live outside of the war. In The Gettysburg Address, a famous speech written by Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln writes a speech to dedicate a cemetery for those soldiers who had died in war. The real heroes of the war are those men who never made it out alive and they who did not make it out deserve the right to be remembered. Like Lincoln said, “We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place…

Although trauma and aging a topic that is not discussed often, it is something that should be taken into consideration and understood. Trauma and the effect it has on older adults is something I have not heard discussed until this class. Before the discussion, I had never considered the effects that trauma has on older adults. Initially, I thought that trauma would be something that the older adults experienced in the care of something and the effects it has on it. However, now it is clear that…

Some of the consequences are best seen in the downfall of the economy and disagreements between country. An example of this is when United States went into the Great Depression and this became a worldwide concern. Even countries who are not greatly involved gets to face the consequences. The war causes countries to be in debt and also have a great consequences of the collapse of their economy…