Posttraumatic stress disorder and related diseases in combat veterans

This℗ℓ book ℗ℓtakes a case-based approach to addressing the challenges℗ℓ psychiatrists and other clinicians face when working with American combat veterans after their return from a war zone. Written by experts, the book concentrates on a wide variety of concerns associated with posttraumatic stress...

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Other Authors: Ritchie, Elspeth Cameron,, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2015]
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Summary: This℗ℓ book ℗ℓtakes a case-based approach to addressing the challenges℗ℓ psychiatrists and other clinicians face when working with American combat veterans after their return from a war zone. Written by experts, the book concentrates on a wide variety of concerns associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including different treatments of PTSD.℗ℓ The text also looks at PTSD comorbidities, such as depression and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other conditions masquerading as PTSD. Finally, the authors touch on other subjects concerning returning veterans, including pain, disability, facing the end of a career, sleep problems, suicidal thoughts, violence, and mefloquine ℓℓ́toxidromeℓℓ́. Each case study includes a case presentation, diagnosis and assessment, treatment and management, outcome and case resolution, and clinical pearls and pitfalls.℗ℓ ℗ℓ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Related Diseases in Combat Veterans is a valuable resource for civilian and military mental health practitioners, ℗ℓand primary care physicians on how to treat patients returning from active war zones.
Item Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I Introduction -- 1 Introduction and overview : posttraumatic stress disorder and related diseases in combat veterans / Elspeth Cameron Ritchie -- 2 Posttraumatic stress disorder screening in the US military and VA poluations / Daniel J. Lee, Christopher H. Warner and Charles W. Hoge -- 3 Therapeutic alliance in the treatment of combat PTSD / James C. West -- 4 Shame and moral injury in an Operation Iraqi Freedom combat veteran / Jonathan R. Dettmer, Erika M. Kappes and Patcho N. Santiago -- Part II Established and evidence-based treatments -- 5 Updates in psychopharmacology for PTSD and related conditions : focus on the active duty service member / Elspeth Cameron Ritchie and Christopher S. Nelson -- 6 Prolonged exposure for combat veterans with PTSD / Connie L. Thomas, Rohul Amin and Joshua N. Friedlander -- 7 Virtual reality exposure therapy for combat-related PTSD / Judith Cukor, Maryrose Gerardi, Stephanie Alley, Christopher Reist, Michael Roy, Barbara O. Rothbaum, JoAnn Difede and Albert Rizzo -- 8 Psychoanalytic approaches to treatment-resistant combat PTSD / Joseph E. Wise -- Part III Emerging treatments -- 9 Accelerated resolution therapy / Wendi M. Waits, Kevin E. Kip and Diego F. Hernandez -- 10 Meditation for combat-related mental health concerns / Marina Khusid -- 11 Use of transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of PTSD / Geoffrey G. Grammer, Jeffrey T. Cole, Cody J. Rall and Caroline C. Scacca -- 12 Adding a face and the story to the data : acupuncture for PTSD in the military / Anita H. Hickey and Robert Koffman -- 13 Use of stellate ganglion block in the treatment of panic/anxiety symptoms (including suicidal ideation), with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder / Eugene Lipov -- 14 Canine connection therapy : finding purpose and healing through the training of service dogs / Meg Daley Olmert, Michelle Nordstrom, Marshall Peters, Matthew St Laurent and Rick Yount -- Part IV Comorbidities -- 15 Trauma and pain : linking emotional and physical symptoms / Genelle Weits -- 16 Multifactorial approach to PTSD in the active duty military population / Rita Richardson, William D. Rumbaugh and Hanna Zembrzuska -- 17 Comorbid PTSD, Bipolar I, and substance use disorder / Rachel Sullivan -- 18 Psychosis masquerading as PTSD / Eric G. Meyer and Brian W. Writer -- 19 Mefloquine intoxication syndrome : a significant potential confounder in the diagnosis and management of PTSD and other chronic deployment-related neuropsychiatric disorders / Remington Lee Nevin and Elspeth Cameron Ritchie -- 20 Polytrauma with sexual dysfunction in a female soldier following IED blast exposure / Jonathan R. Dettmer, Shannon C. Ford and Kyle J. Gray -- 21 Community building approach to PTSD using the arts in a military hospital setting / Seema Reza, Kerrie Earley and Matthew St Laurent -- Part V Cultural competence/special poluations -- 22 Mental health care of special operations forces / Paul Sargent -- 23 Treating war-related moral injury and loss with Adaptive Disclosure : a case study / Alexandra L. Laifer, Amy D. Amidon, Ariel J. Lang and Brett T. Litz -- 24 Treatment of conversion disorder with PTSD / Paulette T. Cazares -- 25 Intimate relationship distress and combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder / Nicholas A. Tamoria, Miguel M. Alampay and Patcho N. Santiago.
This℗ℓ book ℗ℓtakes a case-based approach to addressing the challenges℗ℓ psychiatrists and other clinicians face when working with American combat veterans after their return from a war zone. Written by experts, the book concentrates on a wide variety of concerns associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including different treatments of PTSD.℗ℓ The text also looks at PTSD comorbidities, such as depression and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other conditions masquerading as PTSD. Finally, the authors touch on other subjects concerning returning veterans, including pain, disability, facing the end of a career, sleep problems, suicidal thoughts, violence, and mefloquine ℓℓ́toxidromeℓℓ́. Each case study includes a case presentation, diagnosis and assessment, treatment and management, outcome and case resolution, and clinical pearls and pitfalls.℗ℓ ℗ℓ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Related Diseases in Combat Veterans is a valuable resource for civilian and military mental health practitioners, ℗ℓand primary care physicians on how to treat patients returning from active war zones.
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9783319229850
3319229850