Bulletproofing the Psyche

Bulletproofing the Psyche
Author: Kate Hendricks Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2018-05-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

This book presents the latest in neuroscience and resiliency research alongside the personal stories of military veterans to advocate for an empirically validated training protocol. In Bulletproofing the Psyche: Preventing Mental Health Problems in Our Military and Veterans editors Kate Hendricks Thomas and David L. Albright lead an interdisciplinary team of researchers, practitioners, and military veterans in calling for a new kind of training with a focus on "bulletproofing the psyche": psychological resiliency skills training. They combine research and storytelling to argue that somatic protocols, a training method long used in the treatment sector to rewire the brain after trauma and a proven, valid alternative to drug and talk therapy, should be applied to the prevention and training sectors. Contributors include leaders in the fields of trauma research, military social work, and veterans' health. Students and scholars in the fields of social work, military psychology, social psychology, health promotion, organizational development, and institutional organization will find the research relevant, while clinicians, counselors, and mental health care providers working with military-connected communities may find the discussion of trauma treatment and intervention model transformative for their practice.

Bulletproofing the Psyche

Bulletproofing the Psyche
Author: Kate Hendricks Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2018-05-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1440849773

This book presents the latest in neuroscience and resiliency research alongside the personal stories of military veterans to advocate for an empirically validated training protocol. In Bulletproofing the Psyche: Preventing Mental Health Problems in Our Military and Veterans editors Kate Hendricks Thomas and David L. Albright lead an interdisciplinary team of researchers, practitioners, and military veterans in calling for a new kind of training with a focus on "bulletproofing the psyche": psychological resiliency skills training. They combine research and storytelling to argue that somatic protocols, a training method long used in the treatment sector to rewire the brain after trauma and a proven, valid alternative to drug and talk therapy, should be applied to the prevention and training sectors. Contributors include leaders in the fields of trauma research, military social work, and veterans' health. Students and scholars in the fields of social work, military psychology, social psychology, health promotion, organizational development, and institutional organization will find the research relevant, while clinicians, counselors, and mental health care providers working with military-connected communities may find the discussion of trauma treatment and intervention model transformative for their practice.

In Charge - Your Roadmap To A Bulletproof Personality

In Charge - Your Roadmap To A Bulletproof Personality
Author: Feeba John
Publisher: BFC Publications
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2023-11-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9359922765

In Charge is a practical guide for anyone who desires a resolute and self-assured personality. It is for those who aspire to lead life on their terms. This book can be the ultimate guidebook for anyone grappling with unhealed trauma, emotional wounds, or pain. It serves as a bridge between a state of uncertainty and stagnation to one of renewed vitality and purpose. Consider this book as your strategy to triumph over the battles that unfold in the often hidden and turbulent realm of emotions. It is your fortress of emotional resilience and empowerment. This book is your roadmap, a guiding light when you find yourself lost and in need of direction offering you emotional mastery and a bulletproof personality.

Stopping Military Suicides

Stopping Military Suicides
Author: Kate Hendricks Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1440875081

Blending illustrative narratives from veterans with cutting-edge research, this book provides a model for a needed shift from treatment post-trauma to psychological training pre-trauma to prevent deep depression and resulting suicides. As suicides among members of the U.S. military and veterans continue at a rate higher than in the general population—nearly 20 each day—and their calls for help become louder, with three veterans waiting for treatment outside Veterans Administration hospitals in 2019 committing suicide, authors and former U.S. Marines Kate Hendricks Thomas and Sarah Plummer Taylor present a call for a new approach to help halt the needless deaths. Thomas, now a researcher and assistant professor of public health, and Plummer Taylor, now a social worker and adjunct professor, detail a plan to establish preventative training for mental fitness that will help psychologically "vaccinate" service members against depression and PTSD, the most common precursors to suicidal thoughts. Thomas and Plummer Taylor detail their mental fitness training program to shift from post-trauma treatment to pre-trauma prevention. Each topic addressed is illustrated with stories from veterans. Part of the solution, Thomas and Plummer Taylor explain, is to present prevention as something for all service members and as a positive, strength-building, challenging activity for champions, as opposed to a post-trauma treatment only for "weak and broken" warriors.

Women, Work and Transport

Women, Work and Transport
Author: Tessa Wright
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2022-10-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1800716710

Women, Work and Transport is an international collection that brings together researchers with global expertise in gender and transport work to provide original evidence of the experiences of women working in all transport modes across countries in the Global North and the Global South.

Positive Living with HIV/AIDS, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

Positive Living with HIV/AIDS, An Issue of Nursing Clinics
Author: Ken Phillips
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-02-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323581633

Dr. Phillips has assembled well-published authors on optimizing patient outcomes in those living with HIV and AIDS. The clinical reviews in this issue will provide nurses with the current clinical information they need to incorporate best practices into their patient care and manageement. Articles are devoted to the following topics: Exercise and Positive Living in HIV/AIDS; Managing Other Chronic Illnesses in PLWHAl; Nutritional Issues and Positive Living in HIV/AIDS; Spiritual Dimensions/Resilience; Positive Thinking in HIV/AIDS; Health Promotion in HIV/AIDS; Mental Health in HIV/AIDS; Promoting Cardiovascular Health in PLWHA; Pharmacological Considerations in HIV/AIDS; and Sleep Disturbances Associated with HIV/AIDS.

Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes

Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes
Author: Itai Ivtzan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351967150

Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes: Mindfulness Interventions from Education to Health and Therapy offers the first comprehensive guide to all prominent, evidence-based mindfulness programmes available in the West. The rapid growth of mindfulness in the Western world has given rise to an unprecedented wave of creative mindfulness programmes, offering tailor-made mindfulness practices for school teachers, students, parents, nurses, yoga teachers, athletes, pregnant women, therapists, care-takers, coaches, organisational leaders and lawyers. This book offers an in-depth engagement with these different programmes, emphasising not only the theory and research but also the practice. Exercises and activities are provided to enable the reader to first understand the programme and then experience its unique approach and benefits. Handbook of Mindfulness-Based Programmes will enrich your knowledge and experience of mindfulness practice, whether you are a practitioner, researcher or simply interested in the application of mindfulness.

Religion and Recovery from PTSD

Religion and Recovery from PTSD
Author: Harold Koenig
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2019-12-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1784509264

This volume focuses on the role that religion and spirituality can play in recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other forms of trauma, including moral injury. Religious texts, from the Bible to Buddhist scriptures, have always contained passages that focus on helping those who have experienced the trauma of war. Many religions have developed psychological, social, behavioral, and spiritual ways of coping and healing that can work in tandem with clinical treatments today in assisting recovery from PTSD and moral injury. In this book the authors review and discuss systematic research into how religion helps people cope with severe trauma, including trauma caused by natural disasters, intentional interpersonal violence, or combat experiences during war. They delve into the impact that spirituality has in both the development of and recovery from PTSD. Beyond reviewing research, they also use case vignettes throughout to illustrate the very human story of recovery from PTSD, and how religious or spiritual beliefs can both help or hinder depending on circumstance. A vital work for any mental health or religious professionals who seek to help people dealing with severe trauma and loss.

Head Strong

Head Strong
Author: Michael D. Matthews
Publisher:
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2020
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0190870478

In Head Strong: How Psychology is Revolutionizing War, Michael D. Matthews explores the many ways that psychology will make the difference for wars yet to come, from revolutionary advances in soldier selection and training to new ways of preparing soldiers to remain resilient in the face of horror and to engineering the super-soldier of the future. Many of the predictions made in the first edition have come true, and exciting new developments in military psychology have emerged. This Revised and Expanded Edition updates the existing chapters with important new developments, and adds new chapters on character and human performance optimization--both topics of significant interest in today's military.

Neither Here nor There

Neither Here nor There
Author: Timothy Carson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0718895436

Neither Here nor There: The Many Voices of Liminality draws together the expertise, experience, and insights of a coterie of authors, all of whom relate the core concepts of liminality to their unique contexts. The experience of and inquiry into liminal phenomena have developed into a distinct discipline of study which now crosses and informs many areas of thought, including anthropology, sociology, theology, psychology, literature and education. New vistas of interdisciplinary study have opened as a result of sharing the common language and symbol system of liminality. This anthology reflects the current resurgence of liminality and provides a critical source book ideal for individual reflection, study groups, classes and seminars. From the inner workings of spiritual life to large social transformations, liminality now provides a powerful interpretive tool and effective method for spiritual direction, teaching and leadership.