Beating Combat Stress

Beating Combat Stress is a one-stop handbook of field-tested techniques and strategies to help service personnel, veterans and professionals to deal with the psychological effects of combat. Features 101 field-tested techniques and strategies for managing combat-related stress Designed to be accessible and useful both to serving personnel and veterans, and to the professionals and volunteers who are engaged in helping them Takes a solution-focused approach to dealing with combat-related problems, promoting simplicity and proven techniques over complex theories and psychological jargon User-friendly style and layout, with specially-commissioned illustrations throughout

About the Author. Foreword. Preface – The Book's Purpose. Acknowledgements. Introduction. How to Use This Handbook. Section 1: Dealing with "Triggers". Section 2: How to Deal with Flashbacks. Section 3: How to Deal with Unwelcome Thoughts. Section 4: Dealing with "The Lows". Section 5: Dealing with Sleep Disturbance. Section 6: Living Life to the Full (or as Full as Possible). Appendix A: The Evidence Base for Solution-focused Therapy. Appendix B: Helpful Questions and Statements from the Worker. Appendix C: What Service Users Have Found to be Helpful in This Work. Appendix D: How to Avoid Re-traumatisation and Re-victimisation. Appendix E: Blocks to Disclosing. Appendix F: The Three Stages: Victim – Survivor – Thriver (Living Life to the Full, or as Full as Possible). Appendix G: Benefi ts of Doing This Important Work. Appendix H: Reassuring Things for Servicemen to Know. Appendix I: Two-day Workshops. Bibliography. Index.