{"id":1056,"date":"2009-04-13T13:37:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T19:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2009-09-21T09:29:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T15:29:50","slug":"new-approach-on-overcoming-combat-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sgtbrandi.com\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"New Approach on Overcoming Combat Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been doing a lot of speaking to Troops returning from combat about my own experiences of\u00a0 effectively dealing with Combat Trauma which most Warriors, past and present, are challenged with.\u00a0 I wrote a book about it… The Warriors Guide to Insanity<\/a><\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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The keys to my success results from changes in the current thinking about the treatment of Combat Trauma.\u00a0 It’s shifting from a Disease or Illness modality (something that happens to Warriors caused by mental illness or disease resulting from combat stress<\/em>) to a Cognitive-Perceptive perspective (something that is a latent part of everyone’s mental processes and awakened in the Warrior through training and further nurtured by combat experiences<\/em>).\u00a0 Solutions to the negative aspects of this phenomenon can be achieved from two perspectives:<\/p>\n

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  1. Proactively, using Prevention by Inoculation or enhanced understanding approaches. <\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Recovery and Clinical Intervention solutions involving enhancing the Warriors understanding of the self and coaching on the approaches to achieve self-directed recovery.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Simply stated, the process involves:<\/p>\n

    1. \u00a0Enhancing understanding:<\/strong><\/p>\n