About this Course Module
This presentation examines the common stressors of operational
military deployments, from the merely annoying through the potentially
devastating, and places such experiences in their context defined by
military cultural values and identity. The normal process of adaptation
to stress is described, and it is contrasted with the injuries that can
be inflicted on the mind and brain when adaptive capacities are
exceeded. The three major mechanisms of stress injury are listed, and
the effects of one of them (traumatic stress) are described in
detail.
Goal: This course presents a model for
discriminating normal, adaptive responses to combat and operational
stress from those that entail injury to the mind and brain, and it
provides a language for labeling operational stress reactions that
destigmatizes without trivializing potentially serious problems.
Objectives: After viewing the presentation, the
participant will be able to:
- Describe the major stressors of
combat and operational military deployments, and of subsequent
homecoming
- Describe the two main reasons for
the gap between relatively frequent adverse stress responses during
deployment and relatively mental health diagnosis and treatment after
deployment
- Describe the three tactics of normal
adaptation to stress, and the normal time course for adaptation and
re-adaptation
- Describe the differences between
normal adaptive responses to stress and those that are symptomatic of a
stress injury, and list the three common mechanisms of stress
injury
- Describe the major components of
traumatic stress injuries, and the nature of the biological and
psychosocial damage such injuries entail
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- Download ZIP archive of module
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- Double-click to open "nash_combat_stress_a.pps" (do not move files out of folder)
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Download Transcript (PDF)
Abbreviated instructions:
- Download ZIP archive of module
- Unzip ZIP archive of module
- Double-click to open "nash_combat_stress.pps"
Read complete instructions
How to obtain Continuing Education Credits
Continuing education credits can be earned for this course. For more information and step-by-step instructions, please visit the CE Credits page. Here is the brochure required for CEs for this course.
