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The Mental Health Response to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom: History and Recommendations for Change
Never in any previous conflict has as much attention been paid to the psychological effects of engaging in warfare than is now occurring. Current emphasis on the psychological sequelae of combat is related, in...
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Barriers to Care for the Complex Presentation of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Post-combat Psychological Injuries
Despite significant efforts to mitigate the psychological distress associated with combat, a significant number of military personnel deployed to war in Afghanistan and Iraq return with psychological injuries ...
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State of the Science Regarding Military-Connected Families
In 2013, more than 70 leading clinicians, researchers and scholars from around the world participated in the fourth International Research Symposium on Military and Veteran Families. Organized by the Military ...
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Parenting Styles in Military and Civilian Families with Adolescents: The Impact of Deployment, Mood, and Marital Satisfaction
US Military personnel and their families have been co** with repeated combat deployments for almost 15 years. The impact of this ongoing stress on parental and child psychological health has been documented,...
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Research and Training About Military Families: Where Are We?
The chapters in this volume are a result of the 2011 International Research Symposium on Military Families, a joint effort of the Military Family Research Institute (MFRI) at Purdue University and the Center f...
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Treatment for Co-Morbid Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Substance Use Disorders
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Do Patients with Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder Have Deficits in Decision-Making?
In this study we examined three variables related to decision-making in obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD): (1) the amount of information requested before making a decision, (2) the amount of time spent delib...
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Prevalence of Personality Disorders Among Combat Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Many combat veterans with PTSD have co-occurring symptoms of other forms of psychopathology; however, there have been limited studies examining personality disorders among this population. The few extant studi...
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Partners' Ratings of Combat Veterans' PTSD Symptomatology
The current study examined the concordance of combat veterans' scores on the Mississippi Scale for Combat-Related PTSD, with scores on a parallel version of that instrument completed by partners ...
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Female Partners' Estimations of Male Veterans' Combat-Related PTSD Severity
This study investigated concordance between male Vietnam veterans' and their female partners' reports of veterans' posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Fifty male Vietnam combat veteran...
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The Quality of the Intimate Relationships of Male Vietnam Veterans: Problems Associated with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
This study examined the quality of the intimate relationships of male Vietnam veterans. Heterosexual couples in which the veteran had posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; n = 26) were compared to couples in whic...
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Thematic Resolution, PTSD, and Complex PTSD: The Relationship Between Meaning and Trauma-Related Diagnoses
The role of modifying schemas in trauma-focused psychotherapy has received theoretical and clinical attention. However, the relationship of schematic processing to posttraumatic stress disorder (...
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Dissociative experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder among female victims of criminal assault and rape
This study examines the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and dissociative experiences in a sample of 158 recent female assault victims (74 rape, 84 nonsexual assault) and 46 comparison...
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Book review
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Reliability and validity of a brief instrument for assessing post-traumatic stress disorder
This study examines the psychometric properties of two versions of the PTSD Sympton Scale (PSS). The scale contains 17 items that diagnose PTSD according to DSM-III-R criteria and assess the severity of PTSD s...
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Long-term psychological distress associated with marital rape and aggravated assault: A comparison to other crime victims
This study compared four groups of women who reported being the victims of a single violent crime (total N = 47) and a group of non-victimized women (N = 96). Victims were divided into groups based on the type.....