At Cacciutti Veteran Educational Foundation, our belief is that our discharged veterans deserve added consideration when obtaining gainful education and employment opportunities to be able to support themselves, along with proper medical care, both physical and psychological, to help the veteran assimilate into civilian life. Cacciutti Veteran Educational Foundation has noticed the lack of capable, skilled workers to take over for those who are exiting their respective fields, along with the rising unemployment rate and psychological problems of returning combat veterans like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as well as the problems that even non-combat veterans have assimilating back into civilian society. So Cacciutti Veteran Educational…
PTSD and Veterans: A Conversation with Dr. Frank Ochberg documents an interview of Dr. Frank Ochberg, M.D. by broadcast journalist, Mike Walter. Dr. Ochberg is a leading psychiatrist in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with over 30 years of field experience. He is credited with editing the foremost text for the treatment of PTSD as well as participating in the team that created the medical definition for the diagnosis. Throughout the interview, Dr. Ochberg discussed many facets of PTSD as it relates to working with military veterans as well as working with civilians. In fact, he highlighted that there is no specific differentiation between civilian PTSD and that experienced by veterans. Dr. Ochberg discussed characteristics of an effective counselor for working with those that have experienced trauma, common problems encountered, approaches to utilize, as well as the treatment of co-occurring disorders such as depression (Gift from Within, 2008).…
Phil Klay’s Redeployment tells the stories of different American Veterans experiences as they fought in Iraq and as they attempt to return to a “normal” civilian lifestyle. Each of these soldiers faces the realities of war that cause them to change the way they see the world and how they fit into it. As they return home and begin to interact with people outside of the war, Klay describes the difficulties they face as they try to adjust to a “normal” life after months of deployment. Klay bring awareness to the stories of these veterans as they return home as a means to critique society’s lack of understanding on the struggles of veterans as they transition back into civilian lives.…
It states that even the most serious post-deployment problems can be treated and cured. Some problems that soldiers face in not seeking treatment is that they think they can cope with the problem themselves, they think that others can’t help them, or some think the problem will just go away on its own, and also some are embarrassed to talk to someone else about the problems that they are facing. Some of the signs to watch for in someone returning from war are problems in their relationships, poor performance and attendance in school or work, and if they have thoughts of hurting someone or themselves. The earlier that treatment is sought, the easier it will be to prevent problems that could…
In chapter 18, A Brief History of U.S. Military Families and the Role of Social Workers (Rubin, Weiss, and Coll, 2013) discussed how U.S. Military families have played a vital role in the military community. This chapter also discussed how as time progressed, more resources became available to service men and women's families that were left behind. In addition, social workers played an important role in helping families improve over time by providing and establishing many needed services and programs.…
The podcast Cruel and Unusual covers the issue of the death penalty and whether or not it should be allowed in the U.S. It discusses the controversy within this issue, especially the lethal injection and the constitutionality of capital punishment in regards to the ban of cruel and unusual punishment in the 8th amendment. Some of the cases mentioned were Wilkerson v Utah where the Supreme Court initially ruled to allow a firing squad to be used in the death penalty and Baze v Rees (2008) in which the Supreme Court ruled that lethal injection was not cruel and unusual punishment, and therefore not unconstitutional. The impact that the issue of the death penalty and the court cases regarding it have on the country is that people are easily outraged…
Soldiers coming home from war often have to overcome adversity when dealing with their inability to integrate back into their families and society, as well as coping with the loss of innocence.…
Wilson, J, Friedman, M. & Lindy J. (2001). Treatment Goals for PTSD. In Wilson, J,…
We need to enhance services for female vets which provide a safe place for them to address their issues and rehabilitate back into society. It’s easy to criticize the military for not providing proper exit education to our troops or to blame the VA for the demise of mental health providers. It’s human nature to look for a quick fix to a complex problem. However, war is an experience that keeps on giving back through addiction, divorce, flashbacks, etc. Our soldiers and their families need all the support we can provide. Jeff Susman eloquently states, “We need to do more to reintegrate returning vets into civilian life. The reality is that we owe our vets—and their families—far more than we provide. (Susman, 2012) Susman quotes a soldier he met on a plane a month before Memorial Day. He sat next to a young man returning from his tour of military duty…”He seemed mature, upbeat, and whole. But when I asked him about his experience, he responded: “Sir, I gotta tell you, what I saw was hell.” (Susman,…
I feel that the tension in the Army between an occupation-based culture and a profession-based culture. The campaign is seeking to leverage the successes of the Army to maintain it as a profession and avoid becoming an occupation-based culture. “I have never seen the Army so focused and as resilient as I see now”. “What is it about the profession that has helped achieve results [in Iraq and increasingly in Afghanistan]?”…
Spouses Perceptions of Veterans Experiences and Symptoms. Journal of Family Psychology, 22(3), 586-594. Research Paper Evaluation/Score Sheet Content outside of textbook, 5 pages20 points Theory of Learning10 pointsAPA format10 pointsFormal writing style 5 points5 research sources, including 2 original research journal articles (2websites) 5 points5 publication dates within the last 5 years 5 pointsReferences complete, accurate10 points Research Project Evaluation/Score Sheet Appropriate Research Content 25 pointsFormal writing style 5 points5 pages, unique from Paper and beginning with METHOD 5 pointsMETHOD, with detailed descriptions in all 3 Categories 5…
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There are numerous social problems that plague our world today. These issues can be very detrimental to our society as a whole and can also have very negative impacts on many lives. One major social problem we are facing today is the way we are dealing with and handling our United States Veterans. Despite the fact that we are one of the world’s most powerful nations we are failing to properly take care of our service members who put their lives on the line to ensure our safety and freedom as United States citizens. The issues facing our veterans are substantial and numerous. I will be focusing on the majority of the most outstanding and significant issues facing our veterans…
Locally in Minnesota a resource that is available to veterans is Veteran Resilience Project (VRP). VRP works with veterans to turn their trauma they have been through into growth (Project, 2016). Through this resource veterans are offered 12 free sessions of EMDR (Project, 2016). This program offers 100% confidentiality to their patients, realizing that PTSD is very serious and life changing for the veterans, which they want to acknowledge and not take away from them. In knowing that this is very serious the people of VRP respect each veteran and treat them as equals instead of “one of them”, referring to them as being a victim of PTSD. They believe in equality and dignity of a person at VRP. This program also will use their existing veterans…
As of December 2009, over 3.3 million American troops have been sent overseas into Iraq and Afghanistan alone; 793,000 of them have been deployed more than once. (Tan, 2009) Sadly, not all of our troops return home alive and many that do face many challenges ahead. Physical wounds surly do not go unnoticed. They are fairly common in war time situations and are even shown in war movies. They show the viewer a sense of what a soldier goes through when injured and what to expect; but what about the mental wounds? The United States sends thousands of military men and women overseas into battle, returning them home with not only physical wounds but mental wounds as well.…