Combat Stress Archive

Seat of Democracy in Athens and Alice’s 13th Box
The True Meaning of Service and Sacrifice
Mental Camouflage
Initiatives in Military Moral Injury Research and Education
Adverse Effects of Trauma-Focused Therapies (Part 2)
Healing through Community Service: One Veteran’s Story on Finding Value, Meaning and Purpose

Courage Really Is Beautiful
Mass Attacks and COVID-19: A Military Perspective
River to Recovery
Adverse Effects of Trauma-Focused Therapies (Part 1)
Living with PTSD – My Story of Survival, Falling Down the Well, and Finding Hope
How the Best Handle Stress – A First Aid Kit (Part 2)
Three for Three: A Preliminary Report of Scuba Diving as an Effective Treatment for PTSD – PTSD Progress Through Scuba Diving

Living Alongside the Coronavirus
My Family and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
My PTSD and What Hell Looks Like
Faith-Based and Secular Meditation: Everyday and Posttraumatic Applications, Author: Raymond Monsour Scurfield
Workplace Design Guidelines For Employees With PTSD

Winter 2019-2020

The Dayton Mass Shooting and Its Aftermath
Oxygen Deprivation and Unmanaged Stress Imperceptible, Insidious and Deadly
Soleimani’s Rockets
Researchers’ Biases Wrongly Dictate Therapies for PTSD
Perspective: Taking the Long View in 2020
Combat Outpost Robinson

The Fort Hood Massacre: Survivors’ Story and the Hidden Truths
The Fort Hood Massacre – Ten Years Later
Challenging the CBT Dogma to Treat PTSD
Reducing Therapeutic Obstacles: One Psychologist’s Experience Utilizing CES in Clinical Practice
The Hero’s Journey
Is There an App for That? How Your Phone Can Help You Manage Stress

Searching For Ways To Reduce Veteran Suicides
What Is The Best Mechanism For Fully Remitting PTSD, Trauma-Focused Or Not?
Military Family Spotlight: In Their Heads They’re Still Fighting…
The Aftermath Of The 18-Year Conflict
Stress Management – Is It Going To The Dogs?
Sport And Hobbies That Benefit The Military Veteran

A Forty-Year View of Combat Stress
Wounded Spiritual Warrior of the Great War: Chaplain G.A. Studdert Kennedy
Hidden Psychological Injuries
A War With No Name: PTSD – A Survivor’s Story
Quality Sleep Pre-Deployment is Critical to Mental Health in Service Members

Army Wife – Air Force Mother & Hospital Clown “Sharing Laughter While Seeing the World”
More Grace, More Joy
Are you Taking Mindfulness Too Seriously?
Mind Maneuvers for Managing Stress
Transformational Growth: Your Life Matters!

Military Moral Injury: Assessment and Treatment Interventions for Veterans with Military Service-Related Invisible Wounds
Help Us Please! It’s Suicide
Almost Sunrise: Personal Journey with Moral Injury
How Do You Function?

HBOT: Brain Healing Hidden in the Plain Sight Vol. 2
To Treat a Concussion: Using Hyperbaric Oxygen to Mitigate the Duration of Symptoms of Acute Concussions
All the Right Moves: The Need for the Timely use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Treating TBI/CTE/PTSD
A Discussion of the Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as a Primary and Adjunctive Treatment Modality
TBI/PTSD and the Suicide Epidemic: Breaking the Cycle

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Alternative Therapies
Old World Wisdom, New World Healing and Health
The Use of Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation in Traumatic Brain Injuries
To Veterans with Invisible Wounds

HBOT: Brain Healing Hidden in the Plain Sight Vol. 2
To Treat a Concussion: Using Hyperbaric Oxygen to Mitigate the Duration of Symptoms of Acute Concussions
All the Right Moves: The Need for the Timely use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Treating TBI/CTE/PTSD
A Discussion of the Use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as a Primary and Adjunctive Treatment Modality
TBI/PTSD and the Suicide Epidemic: Breaking the Cycle

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Alternative Therapies
Old World Wisdom, New World Healing and Health
The Use of Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation in Traumatic Brain Injuries
To Veterans with Invisible Wounds

Combat Trauma, Criminal Behavior and How the Justice System Can Do a Better Job This Time Around
Veterans Justice Outreach Specialists: A VA Success Story
Warren County, Ohio Veterans Court: Initial Successes
The Montgomery County Ohio Veterans Treatment Court: Turning Lives Around

Introduction to Military and Veteran Retreats: Part 2
Women Warriors: WVSJ Network Retreats
GratitudeAmerica: Healing Connections and Rebuilding Communities One Retreat at a Time
Healing of Memories Retreats
Walking with St. Francis: Journey of a Wounded Warrior Retreat

Veteran Retreats: Immersion, Healing and Bonding in Community
Bridging the Gap Integrative Intensive Retreats for Military/Veterans and their Primary Support Person
Retreat Outcomes: In Their Own Words
Lone Survivor Foundation Integrative Intensive Retreat (IIR) Model
Program Evaluation of the Lone Survivor Foundation (LSF) Retreat Model for Veterans

SLEEP: The Missing Link
Dreampad: New Home-based Technology to Improve Sleep and Reduce PTSD Symptoms
The 5 Most Important Things Veterans with PTSD Should Know About Their Claims
The Epidemic of Veteran Suicides

The Art of War: Transforming Trauma into Inspiration
Wargasm: Sexuality, Intimacy, and Post-War Reintegration

Women in the Military: Myths and Misogyny
Sexual Trauma in the Military
Military Recruitment Needs Sex Assault Warning
Mothers and the Military

Effective Relief from Post Traumatic Stress
A Word from Service Members

Here & Now, Women in the Military, Challenges, Changes and Champions
Leadership of Consequence among Women in Uniform and Women Veterans
Antecedents and Solutions for Military Sexual Assault
If You Don’t Write It, Who Will?
Read the Women Who Have Gone Before You

Treating PTSD with Outdoor Pursuits
The Loneliest War

Miscarriage of Justice
Guidelines for Vet’s Families
Combat Social Work in Vietnam

Beyond Trauma Part 1
Myths and Realities: Wars and Disasters
War and It’s Enduring Impact

Preventing Sleep Casualties
My Personal Experience with AAT

New PTSD Treatment Technique: AAT
Exclusive Interview with Charlie Daniels
Alternative Treatments for SRI/SSRI-Resistant
Retirement Speech of Katherine Theresa Platoni

The Healing Power of Pets

New PTSD Treatment Technique: AAT
Exclusive Interview with Charlie Daniels
Alternative Treatments for SRI/SSRI-Resistant
Retirement Speech of Katherine Theresa Platoni

The Healing Power of Pets

Bridging the Gap
Retreat Effectiveness

Veterans and the Arts: Reconnecting to Self and Community
How the Arts Can Help Veterans
Understanding Self & Reclaiming the Veteran Narrative
Therapy Initiatives
Featured Artists

Natural Healing: The Human – Animal Bond

Parallel Universe
Women Vets’ Secret War: Sexual Trauma
I’m a Monster: Vets Alone in Their Guilt
Traumatic Brain Injury In The Classroom
PTSD Sufferers Are Not All Ticking Time Bombs

Reset the Hook: WCSRP
Acupuncture: Needle Away Stress
Biofeedback: Gain Greater Awareness
Meditation: Free Your Mind
Yoga Benefits

Natural Healing: The Human – Animal Bond

Parallel Universe
Women Vets’ Secret War: Sexual Trauma
I’m a Monster: Vets Alone in Their Guilt
Traumatic Brain Injury In The Classroom
PTSD Sufferers Are Not All Ticking Time Bombs

War: It is Written Across Your Face
Fear and Loathing at Fort Hood
Needling Away at Stress
I have PTSD, So What ?

Suicide: Unseen and Uncounted
Drug Therapy For PTSD: More Harm Than Good
Are Military Suicides Contagious?
PTSD In Preschoolers, Children And Combat Dogs?
Will PTSD Be Abandoned And Replaced by PTSI?