Stopping Military Suicides
Veteran Voices to Help Prevent Deaths
- 184 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Stopping Military Suicides
Veteran Voices to Help Prevent Deaths
About this book
Blending illustrative narratives from veterans with cutting-edge research, this book provides a model for a needed shift from treatment post-trauma to psychological training pre-trauma to prevent deep depression and resulting suicides. As suicides among members of the U.S. military and veterans continue at a rate higher than in the general populationānearly 20 each dayāand their calls for help become louder, with three veterans waiting for treatment outside Veterans Administration hospitals in 2019 committing suicide, authors and former U.S. Marines Kate Hendricks Thomas and Sarah Plummer Taylor present a call for a new approach to help halt the needless deaths. Thomas, now a researcher and assistant professor of public health, and Plummer Taylor, now a social worker and adjunct professor, detail a plan to establish preventative training for mental fitness that will help psychologically "vaccinate" service members against depression and PTSD, the most common precursors to suicidal thoughts. Thomas and Plummer Taylor detail their mental fitness training program to shift from post-trauma treatment to pre-trauma prevention. Each topic addressed is illustrated with stories from veterans. Part of the solution, Thomas and Plummer Taylor explain, is to present prevention as something for all service members and as a positive, strength-building, challenging activity for champions, as opposed to a post-trauma treatment only for "weak and broken" warriors.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Trigger Warning
- Foreword: Community-Focused Solutions for Veteran Suicide Prevention
- Chapter 1: Authorās Note: The Pistol or the Yoga Mat
- Chapter 2: Authorās Note: A Culture of Silence
- Section 1: Introduction to the Battlespace
- Section 2: Self-Care
- Section 3: Social Support
- Section 4: Spiritual Practice
- Section 5: Reckoning with Resilience
- Afterword: A New Approach to Combat Trauma: Healing Veterans and Military Members with Body-Centered and Alternative Treatments
- Appendix A: Suggested Reading
- Appendix B: Breathwork and Meditation for Integration, Balance, and Clarity
- References
- About the Authors and Contributors
- Index