Category Archives: Suicide Prevention
Warrior Resilience Training / Warrior Resilience & Thriving (WRT)
Here is some excellent material that may be very useful to families, veterans, and active Military. This program is by Major Thomas A. Jarrett, “an Army licensed clinical social worker, executive coach, rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) doctoral fellow, and … Continue reading
Posted in Combat Stress, Combat trauma, Dept of Veteran Affairs, Emotional Trauma, Overcoming Combat Trauma, PTSD, Suicide Prevention, US Army, Veterans issues, Vets, combat veteran, more effective solutions, treating combat trauma
Tagged Combat Stress, Combat trauma, combat veteran, Preventing Combat Suicide, PTSD, veterans needs, Warriors, WRT
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MENTORING COMBAT WARRIORS REACHES 4,500 AND GROWING…
Most Recent Mentoring Sessions I conducted another group of Mentoring Sessions to approximately 700 Combat Veterans at Fort Carson the 6th and 7th of this month. This takes the total troop mentoring sessions to over 4,500 participants. The feedback from … Continue reading
Posted in Combat Stress, Combat trauma, Emotional Trauma, I/A Veterans, Innovate Adapt and Overcome, Mentoring, Overcoming Combat Trauma, PTSD, Preventing Combat Suicide, Retired Combat Veteran, Suicide Prevention, US Army, Veteran, Veterans issues, Viet Nam Veteran, combat veteran
Tagged Combat Stress, Combat trauma, combat veteran, Innovate Adapt and Overcome, path to healing, Preventing Combat Suicide, PTSD, veterans needs, Warriors, Warriors Guide, warriors mind
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LIVING WITH COMBAT TRAUMA: An Essay to Remember…
Parallel Universe An essay on Overcoming Trauma By Alison Lighthall, RN, MS Combat Stress Specialist May 15, 2009 Emotional trauma is a special kind of broken heartedness. It is a permanent condition that, on some rare and lucky occasions, may … Continue reading
Posted in Combat trauma, Emotional Trauma, I/A Veterans, Innovate Adapt and Overcome, Military Sexual Trauma, Overcoming Combat Trauma, PTSD, Preventing Combat Suicide, Suicide Prevention, Veterans issues, Vets, Viet Nam Vet
Tagged Combat Stress, Combat trauma, combat veteran, Military Sexual Trauma, normal life, path to healing, Preventing Combat Suicide, PTSD, surviving Families, veterans needs, warriors mind
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Support the Post Deployment Health Assessment Act of 2009!
Urge your Senator to support S.711, the “Post Deployment Health Assessment Act of 2009″ Background The mental health needs of the 1.64 million troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to make headlines. Over 18 percent of troops … Continue reading
Posted in Combat Stress, Combat trauma, Dept of Veteran Affairs, Overcoming Combat Trauma, PTSD, Preventing Combat Suicide, Suicide Prevention, Veterans issues
Tagged benefiting veterans, depression, likely to commit suicide, New Senate Bill, Post Deployments Health Assessment Act, Preventing Combat Suicide, PTSD, S.711, troops served in Iraq and Afghanistan
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