The Veterans and Active Duty Military Psychotherapy Homework Planner provides you with an array of ready-to-use, between-session assignments designed to fit virtually every therapeutic mode. This easy-to-use sourcebook features:

78 ready-to-copy exercises covering the most common issues encountered by veterans and active duty soldiers in therapy, such as anger management, substance abuse and dependence, bereavement, pre-deployment stress, and chronic pain after injury
A quick-reference format—the interactive assignments are grouped by behavioral problems including combat and operational stress reactions, postdeployment reintegration, survivor's guilt, anxiety, parenting problems related to deployment, and posttraumatic stress disorder
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Assignments are cross-referenced to The Veterans and Active Duty Military Psychotherapy Treatment Planne r—so you can quickly identify the right exercise for a given situation or problem
Downloadable assignments—allowing you to customize them to suit you and your clients' unique styles and needs

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Section XXIX: Pre-Deployment Stress

Am I Ready for Deployment?

Goals of the Exercise

1. Acknowledge that fear and anxiety are normal and expected reactions prior to deployment.

2. Identify and discuss the nature of the anxiety related to the actual deployment.

3. Discuss expectations and realities regarding communication while deployed.

4. Develop a plan of how to recognize birthdays, anniversaries, and graduations for loved ones.

Additional Problems for which this Exercise may be Useful

Adjustment to the Military Culture
Anxiety
Insomnia
Parenting Problems Related to Deployment
Separation and Divorce

Suggestions for Processing this Exercise with Service Members

The “Am I Ready for Deployment?” activity is a companion unit to “Helping My Family Prepare for My Deployment.” Where that activity focuses strictly on practical preparation such as making financial and legal arrangements, this one is written with the goal of helping the service member and his or her family prepare on an intra- and interpersonal level. It can also be considered a unit to be used in conjunction with the two activities listed for Parenting Problems Related to Deployment. Follow-up could include reviewing the list with the service member, possibly in a joint session including his/her significant other, as well as bibliotherapy using books listed in Appendix A of The Veterans and Active Duty Military Psychotherapy Treatment Planner.

EXERCISE XXIX.A Am I Ready for Deployment?

There are many things to do and think about when you're getting ready to be deployed and it can be easy for the strictly practical matters, like finances and household operations, to take up all your time and energy. Those are vital, but it's also critical for you to prepare emotionally and have a plan addressing how you'll stay in commu-nication with your significant other and with your children, if you have children. You may also want to go through the exercises titled “How Will I Explain this Deployment to My Children?” and “How Will I Stay in Touch with My Children?” They offer a number of useful ideas and questions to ask and answer with your fami...

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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Wiley PracticePlanners® Series Preface
Preface
Section I: Adjustment to Killing
Section II: Adjustment to the Military Culture
Section III: Amputation, Loss of Mobility, Disfigurement
Section IV: Anger Management and Domestic Violence
Section V: Antisocial Behavior in the Military
Section VI: Anxiety
Section VII: Attention and Concentration Deficits
Section VIII: Bereavement Due to the Loss of a Comrade
Section IX: Borderline Personality
Section X: Brief Reactive Psychotic Episode
Section XI: Chronic Pain After Injury
Section XII: Combat and Operational Stress Reaction
Section XIII: Conflict With Comrades
Section XIV: Depression
Section XV: Diversity Acceptance
Section XVI: Financial Difficulties
Section XVII: Homesickness/Loneliness
Section XVIII: Insomnia
Section XIX: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Section XX: Nightmares
Section XXI: Opioid Dependence
Section XXII: Panic/Agoraphobia
Section XXIII: Parenting Problems Related to Deployment
Section XXIV: Performance-Enhancing Supplement Use
Section XXV: Phobia
Section XXVI: Physiological Stress Response—Acute
Section XXVII: Post-Deployment Reintegration Problems
Section XXVIII: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Section XXIX: Pre-Deployment Stress
Section XXX: Separation and Divorce
Section XXXI: Sexual Assault by Another Service Member
Section XXXII: Shift Work Sleep Disorder
Section XXXIII: Social Discomfort
Section XXXIV: Spiritual and Religious Issues
Section XXXV: Substance Abuse/Dependence
Section XXXVI: Suicidal Ideation
Section XXXVII: Survivor's Guilt
Section XXXVIII: Tobacco Use
Appendix: Additional Assignments for Presenting Problems
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