Author Biography
Col. Charles W. Hoge, M.D, served as Director of the Division of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) from November 2004 until his retirement in summer 2009. The recipient of numerous awards in his field, he maintains a clinical practice caring for soldiers and family members with war-related mental health conditions. As a national spokesperson for the Department of Defense on war-related mental health issues and traumatic brain injury, Col. Hoge has been interviewed hundreds of times by major national news organizations. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | p. viii |
Introduction: Postwar "Transition-Readjustment" | p. x |
How to Use This Book | p. xx |
Combat Stress and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | p. 1 |
Combat Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI/Concussion) | p. 37 |
Navigating the Home-zone Area of Operations: Introduction to "LANDNAV" | p. 48 |
Life Survival Skills-Warrior Reflexes and Sleep | p. 51 |
Become more aware of your reactions by writing about them | |
Learn to accept your reactions without judgment or anger | |
Improve physical conditioning and relax muscle tension | |
Improve sleep | |
Learn how alcohol or drugs affect your reactions | |
Attend to and Modulate Your Reactions | p. 87 |
Learn to pay attention to your physiological reactions and anxiety level | |
Learn to pay attention to your feelings and emotions | |
Create space between your reactions to stressful events and behaviors | |
Learn to monitor and eliminate "should" and related words or phrases | |
Notice your breathing | |
Improve your focus and attention through meditation and mindfulness | |
Narrate Your Story | p. 116 |
Deal with Stressful Situations | p. 134 |
Resiliency inoculation training (facing your fears) | |
Dealing with the "stupid stuff" people do | |
Dealing with more-serious situations involving people | |
Dealing with anger, rage, and related emotions | |
Navigate the Mental Health Care System | p. 170 |
Stigma and other barriers to care | |
Road map for getting help | |
Types of treatment offered: the cold, hard facts | |
Disability and treatment | |
Acceptance: Living and Coping with Major Losses | p. 213 |
Understanding the emotions of loss | |
Exploring the connections between complex and primary emotions | |
Letting go of unanswerable questions | |
Coping with grief and survivor's guilt | |
Accepting other difficult events that happened in combat | |
Navigation Strategies for Spouses, Partners, and Family Members | p. 253 |
Deployment affects everyone | |
Your strength and independence | |
Tapping into your resources | |
Strengthening your relationship and considerations for coping with postwar reactions of your warrior | |
Considerations for coping with infidelity | |
Helping your children cope with the stresses of deployment and transition | |
V = The "V"s!-Vision, Voice, Village, Joie de Vivre, Victory | p. 273 |
References 278 | |
Index | p. 294 |
About the Author | p. 304 |
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