Treatment Options for Service Members

Treatment Options for Service Members

Military personnel share the same common issues with which civilians struggle. When a service member deploys with unresolved, common civilian life issues, a combat situation can greatly complicate or exacerbate that issue or create new ones, leading to PTSD or TBI or both. In this Assignment, you consider the treatment options for service members who return from deployment with a new diagnosis.

Required Readings

1. Department of Veterans Affairs & Department of Defense. (2017). VA/DOD clinical practice guideline for the management of posttraumatic stress disorder and acute stress disorder. Retrieved from https://www.healthquality.va.gov/guidelines/MH/ptsd/VADoDPTSDCPGFinal.pdf

2.  Xue, C., Ge, Y., Tang, B., Liu, Y., Kang, P., Wang, M., & Zhang, L. (2015). A meta-analysis of risk factors for combat-related PTSD among military personnel and veterans. Plos One, 10(3), e0120270. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120270

3. Polusny, M. A., Kumpula, M. J., Meis, L. A., Erbes, C. R., Arbisi, P. A., Murdoch, M., … Johnson, A. K. (2014). Gender differences in the effects of deployment-related stressors and pre-deployment risk factors on the development of PTSD symptoms in National Guard Soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 49, 1–9. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2013.09.016

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022395613003087?via%3Dihub

4. Koffel, E., Polusny, M. A., Arbisi, P. A., & Erbes, C. R. (2013). Pre-deployment daytime and nighttime sleep complaints as predictors of post-deployment PTSD and depression in National Guard troops. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 27(5), 512–519. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2013.07.003

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0887618513001357?via%3Dihub

Other Treatment for PTSD that is effective is EMDR Therapy

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. (2020). Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for PTSD. Retrieved from https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand_tx/emdr.asp

Veterans Resilience Project. (2020). resilience mn. Retrieved from https://www.resiliencemn.org/

A 4- to 5-page paper that proposes treatment options for military service members who return from combat with PTSD from combat

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