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This volume provides several perspectives that help practitioners, advocates, and policymakers understand the impact of historical and recent wars on U.S. Military veterans. The chapters address newly recognized psychological conditions as risk factors for more serious diagnosable mental health disorders.
List of contents
- Forward
- Preface
- Dedication
- List of Contributors and Biographies
- Introduction: Recognizing the Transforming Landscape of War Injuries and Treatments
- Evan R. Seamone
- PART I: THE UNCOUNTED COSTS OF MILITARY SERVICE: SOCIETAL BURDENS OF WAR TRAUMA
- 1. Expected Mental Health Care Costs of Military Involvement
- Justin T. McDaniel, Kevin Sylwester, Rick Stapel, Tim Ting, and David L. Albright
- 2. Military Criminality: Responding to Predictable Occupational Hazards
- from Military Service
- Evan R. Seamone
- 3. Generational Trends in Employment and Crime Among Military
- Families
- Justin T. McDaniel, Eric Black, Harvey Henson, Yorino Kawashima, Jennifer Koran, and Daniel Brown
- 4. Older Veterans: Lifetime Consequences of Military Service
- Kari Fletcher, Eric Black, Rachel Dekel, Mariah Rooney, Jim Martin, and David L. Albright
- 5. Beyond Combat: Gender and the Construction of Injury in Military Contexts
- Walter Callaghan, Maya Eichler, and Victoria Tait
- PART II: THE MORAL COSTS OF WARFARE: UNDERSTANDING MORAL INJURY
- 6. The Look and Feel of Moral Injury
- Nancy Sherman
- 7. Moral Injury, Moral Suffering, and Moral Health
- Matthew Talbert and Jessica Wolfendale
- 8. PTSD Weaponized: A Theory of Moral Injury
- Duncan MacIntosh
- 9. Remote Combat Exposure and Moral Injury from Drone Operations: The Cost of a New Form of Warfare
- Elliot Atkins and Evan R. Seamone
- 10. Incorporating Moral Injury in Military and Veteran Policy
- Kristen Laha-Walsh, Haley Steele, and David L. Albright
- PART III: MITIGATING THE UNCOUNTED COSTS OF WAR
- 11. Recruiting, Training, and the Permissible Bounds of Preventing and Mitigating Moral Injury in the U.S. Military
- Jesse Hamilton
- 12. Pain, Addiction, and Suicidality Among Veterans: Integrating Evidence-Based, Concurrent Treatment Approaches
- Evangelina Banou, Nicole Angeli, Stacey Sandusky, and Stephanie Miller
- 13. Mitigating the Costs of Combat with the Code of Conduct
- Kevin Govern and Stephen N. Xenakis
- 14. Identifying and Treating Moral Injury in Military Members and Veterans
- Julie Yeterain, Danielle S. Berke, Joel Rosenthal, and Bret Litz
- 15. From Cautious to Conscious Inclusion: A Review of Women's Integration in the Armed Forces, and Where to Next
- Janelle M. Pham
- Index
About the author
Justin T. McDaniel, PhD is an Associate Professor of Public Health in the School of Human Sciences at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He also has a joint appointments in the Dale and Deborah Smith Center for Alzheimer's Research and trEatment (CARE) and the Department of Population Science and Policy at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. His scholarship focuses primarily on important social and behavioral issues faced by military service members and veterans.
Evan R. Seamone, LPD, LLM, JD, MS, MPP (U.S. Army, Retired) is a fellow of the National Institute of Military Justice and an advisor to the Veterans Justice Commission of the Council on Criminal Justice. He began teaching law following 12 years of active-duty service in the U.S. Army as a military lawyer having worked extensively in the prosecution and defense of felony cases involving Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and other invisible wounds of war. He worked as a Clinic Attorney at the Veterans Legal Clinic of the Harvard Law School and directed the University of Florida Levin College of Law Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic where he taught law students and supervised them in providing legal services to veterans in need.
Stephen N. Xenakis, MD Brigadier General (Retired), United States Army, is a former Erik Erikson Scholar at The Austen Riggs Center, an Anti-Torture Advisor for the Physicians for Human Rights, an Executive Board Member at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, and Adjunct Professor at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.
Summary
This volume provides several perspectives that help practitioners, advocates, and policymakers understand the impact of historical and recent wars on U.S. Military veterans. The chapters address newly recognized psychological conditions as risk factors for more serious diagnosable mental health disorders.
