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View Post: Combat Stress and the Fort Hood Gunman - Room for Debate Blog ...
6 Nov 2009 by By The Editors  
Exposure to case after case of combat-related stress injuries often has negative effects for the caregivers who handle these cases. Yet in many instances, those professionals (not to mention family members) do not get proper attention ...
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7 Nov 2009 by Bruce Tomaso/Editor   ...
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View Post: Shortage of military therapists creates strain - KansasCity.com
7 Nov 2009
</p><p>Dr. Layton McCurdy, a psychiatrist and dean emeritus at the Medical University of South Carolina who served on the task force, said the shortage continues with the thousands of troops needing help because of combat-related stress ...
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View Post: Fort Hood tragedy seen through personal political lenses ...
8 Nov 2009
Meanwhile, the debate rages over whether Hasan — aside from his religion, ethnicity, and what he's reported to have said about two US wars in Muslim countries — himself was a victim of combat-related stress. Even though he'd never been ...
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View Post: J.B. Spins: Fort Hood: Tattooed Under Fire
8 Nov 2009 by JB  
Still, while some of the Fort Hood soldiers profiled in Nancy Schiesari's Tattooed Under Fire do indeed suffer from combat-related stress, the issues of the alleged shooter appear to be of an entirely different nature. ...
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View Post: Hey you patriotic Americans, he's talking about this forum of Arab ...
7 Nov 2009 by Eann  
Several new reports suggested that the major saw a deployment to Iraq as his "worst nightmare" and recounted how he had treated victims of combat-related stress and was upset about the war. Military officials at the base and in ...
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View Post: Health Beat: The Slaughter at Fort Hood Is Not About One Individual
7 Nov 2009 by Maggie Mahar  
Attempts to keep matters 'in house' foster an atmosphere of secrecy and shame,” the report observed “that is not conducive to proper treatment for combat-related mental health injuries.” Attempts to keep matters 'in house' foster an .... They will be sent back to combat, again and again—until finally, they break. Soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, depression or a host of other mental problems are not in a good position to protect themselves. ...
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View Post: OPFOR: WTF is Secondary Post-Traumatic Stress?
13 hours ago by Your (optional) podcast author email address...  
... not uncommon for therapists treating soldiers with Post Trumatic Stress Disorder (P.T.S.D.) to be swept up in a patient's displays of war-related paranoia, helplessness and fury. vs. veteran JR Salzman, who lost a limb in combat -- ...
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View Post: MSM Monitor: The Fort Hood Hoax
3 hours ago by Rocker  
In studies of therapists working to soothe mental distress in victims of violence, whether criminal, sexual, or combat-related, researchers have documented what is called secondary trauma: contact distress, of a kind. ... who have been through four or five deployments,'' said Bryan Hannah, 22, a disabled Iraq war veteran from San Marcos, Texas, who was stationed at Fort Hood until he was discharged a year ago because of post-traumatic stress disorder and other injuries. ...
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View Post: Psyche, Science, and Society » The stresses of military mental ...
20 hours ago by Stephen Soldz  
At Fort Hood, the nation's largest military base, Major Hasan, like other therapists, would have had to manage many patients with severe combat stress. At his relatively high rank, he would have been expected to seek help on his own if he thought he ... In studies of therapists working to soothe mental distress in victims of violence, whether criminal, sexual or combat-related, researchers have documented what is called secondary trauma: contact distress, of a kind. ...
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