This study examined the protective effects of hardiness (dispositional resilience) on self-reported posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in a sample postdeployed service members. Hardiness was negatively related to PTSD symptoms. Time military, number deployments, and total time spent deployment were all positively moderated military symptoms, such that had no effect those who high hardiness. did not moderate either measure. Suggestions modify current resilience training programs...

Abstract Current theories of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) propose that memory abnormalities are central to the development and persistence symptoms. While most notable disturbances in PTSD involve for trauma itself, individuals often have trouble remembering aspects everyday life. Further, people with may difficulty segmenting ongoing activity into discrete units, which is important our perception later activity. The current study investigated whether diagnosis symptom severity...

U.S. Army Combat Medic serves as both Soldier and provider of combat casualty care, often in the heat battle with limited resources. Yet little is known about their help-seeking behavior perceived stigma barriers to care. Participants were three groups Medics surveyed at 3- 12-months postdeployment from assignment line units vs. those who had never deployed combat. The primary data source was surveys mental health service utilization, depression post-traumatic stress disorder screens....

Killing in combat uniquely predicts elevated PTSD symptomatology among military veterans. This study investigated the effects of killing a sample 345 U.S. Army medics who had recently returned from operational deployments to Iraq or Afghanistan. Combat provide frontline medical care before, during, and after battles but also fight alongside other soldiers when under attack. Attempting kill was significant predictor even accounting for passively witnessing trauma fellow soldiers. Medics may...

Military health care providers experience considerable stressors related to their exposure death and traumatic injuries in others. This study used survey data from 799 active duty U.S. Army Combat Medics deployed Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom. experiences, combat exposures, mental seeking of were explored compared across both genders. Barriers also assessed. Male female reported surprisingly similar issues. Overall, results indicate no striking differences barriers for...

The U.S. Army Combat Medic faces enormous stress as both soldier and trauma care provider. This study provides an initial assessment of the mental health attitudes behaviors these soldiers. To date, there is no known research assessing behavioral or their help seeking behavior following deployment. Medics who were 12 months post-deployment from a yearlong deployment to combat compared with baseline group had never been deployed war. Participants completed survey containing measures service...

U.S. Army combat medics who were three months postdeployment reported higher prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and aggressive behaviors than did had never been deployed to a zone. Combat experiences then separated into six categories: killing, fighting, threat oneself, death injury others, providing aid the wounded, saving life. After controlling for socially desirable response bias, oneself predicted stress; depression; reports killing in postdeployed medics. Despite their...

We examined the effects of hardiness on symptoms posttraumatic stress (PTS) in postdeployed U.S. Army medics (N = 322). Medics endure a high level work-related and off battlefield. Hardiness correlated negatively with reports PTS moderated cumulative years military service symptoms. After controlling for socially desirable responding, increased those low levels decreased very hardiness. The military's current resiliency training programs would likely benefit from incorporating measures...

People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often report difficulty remembering information in their everyday lives. Recent findings suggest that such difficulties may be due to PTSD-related deficits parsing ongoing activity into discrete events, a process called event segmentation. Here, we investigated the causal relationship between segmentation and memory by cueing boundaries evaluating its effect on subsequent people PTSD. PTSD (n = 38) trauma-matched controls 36) watched...

A life-threatening traumatic experience can cause physical and psychological distress, but it also be remembered with pride from having demonstrated one's courage abilities under severe circumstances. Characteristics of the event, as well later personal reflection, together determine individual's response to a event. This study investigates how combat experiences retrospective appraisals those affect reports posttraumatic stress depression symptoms in 324 United States Army medics. Higher...

The performance of nine Spanish speakers on tests single-word reading and phonological awareness in English was examined compared to that monolingual adults children similar ability. Even though the participants had several years experience writing performed well at nonwords, they showed little evidence processing strategies when familiar words. For example, relatively poorly written rhyme judgements despite good awareness. When children, made fewer errors visual lexical decision homophone...

This study assesses potentially traumatic combat and medical provider experiences subsequent utilization of behavioral health (BH) services among 324 U.S. Army medics 3 months after military deployment. After statistically controlling for socially desirable responding, neither nor directly predicted BH services; however, both posttraumatic stress symptoms, which utilization. Moderation analyses revealed that were less likely to utilize intense battle if they reported a low hardy personality,...

We examined whether risk factors for suicidal behavior depend on age among military veterans in the Pacific Islands (N = 29,595). For under 54 years old, having a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder, borderline personality drug use and service-related disability predicted behavior. old or older, mood disorder Having history high number VA health care visits were associated with both groups. Our findings suggest that predictive value certain may age.

The above article from Journal of Traumatic Stress, published online on 13 January 2016 in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com) and Volume 29, Issue 1, Pages 65-71, has been retracted by agreement among the International Society for Stress Studies, Editor-in-Chief, Periodicals, Inc. utilized government research data which prior authorization to publish had not obtained.

Moment Work: An Interview with Tectonic Theater Project Lisa S. Brenner, Moisés Kaufman (bio), and Barbara Pitts (bio) teaches a devising method its calls “Moment Work.” Theatre Topics coeditor Brenner sat down artistic director company member to discuss the Work process their upcoming book be published by Random House. Brenner: In special issue on Devised in The Dramatists 2015, you said term devised is not yet fully defined, or at least way that precisely describes what it is; rather, it’s...

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