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Gail MacDonell with Patron John Cantwell
Jan Wallent and John Goodwin catching up after a meeting.
Michel Harbourd and Vicki Dodds catching up after a big meeting.
Michel Harbourd and Vicki Dodds catching up after a big meeting.
Michel Harbourd and Vicki Dodds catching up after a big meeting.
Battle Scars: how angry young veterans rewrote PTSD treatment
AMBER JAMIESON Crikey journalist
It was the year 2000 when Australian psychologists started getting worried about the younger veterans that had begun trickling through their clinics with post-traumatic stress disorder, drug and alcohol problems and other anxiety issues. The PTSD programs had been written for Vietnam veterans. But when younger veterans -- who had been deployed on difficult peacekeeping missions in East Timor or to fight the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq -- went through these programs, they weren't exiting them with the same outcomes and increased quality of life.
Military Grief
Like adults, children and teens may feel intense sadness and loss, or “grief,” when a person close to them dies. And like adults, children and teens express their grief in how they behave, what they think and say, and how they feel emotionally and physically. Each child and parent grieves differently, and there is no right or wrong way or length of time to grieve. PDF: Military Grief
A 2009 overview of Australian Military Families
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Problems in families of male Vietnam Veterans with PTSD
