Veterans: Political, Social and Health Issues

$160.00

Milton Townsend (Editor)

Series: Military and Veteran Issues
BISAC: LAW068000

This book provides insights into the political, social and health issues for Veterans in today’s society. Chapter One explores the emotions of shame and guilt in Veterans based on research examining moral injury, survivor guilt, military sexual trauma, and stigma. Chapter Two provides an overview of agricultural initiatives in the transition and reintegration of Veterans. Chapter Three explores the political, social, and health management changes that have occurred in the field of chronic, non-cancer pain in order to provide world class service for our nation’s Veterans. Chapter Four reviews the Emotional Freedom Technique to treat Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Chapter Five offers suggestions based on clinical experiences for when and how to include family members in Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy for PTSD, while maintaining fidelity to the treatment protocol. Chapter Six explores research that has been conducted upon the oral health of veterans since 2000. Chapter Seven examines potentially mutually exclusive objectives utilizing the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence in relationship to bioethics and the concept of need. Chapter Eight discusses the continued existence of ethnic disparities in health care for U.S. Veterans Affairs Emergency Departments. (Imprint: Nova)

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Shame and Guilt: The Silent Struggle of Veterans
Kathleen M. Grout, Ellen J. Teng (Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, TX, USA, and others)

Chapter 2. Community Reintegration of Transitioning Veterans: An Overview of Agricultural Initiatives
Karen Besterman-Dahan, Margeaux Chavez, Casper Bendixsen, Christina Dillahunt-Aspillaga (HSR&D Center for Innovation on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (CINDRR), James A Haley VA, Tampa, FL, USA, and others)

Chapter 3. Veterans & Chronic Pain: Political, Social, and Health Management Issues
David Cosio, Erica Lin and Jesse Brown (VA Medical Center, IL, USA, and others)

Chapter 4. Using Emotional Freedom Technique to Treat Veterans with PTSD
Tom Porpiglia (Life Script Mental Health Counseling Services PLLC, Webster, NY, USA)

Chapter 5. Suggestions for Helping Family Members Help Their Loved One Benefit from Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD
Brittany Davis, Sonya Norman (VA San Diego Healthcare System, National Center for PTSD, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)

Chapter 6. Veterans: Oral Health Considerations
R. Constance Wiener, and Michael A. Wiener (Dental Practice and Rural Health, School of Dentistry, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA, and others)

Chapter 7. Meeting Needs of the Patient and Healthcare Provider: Teleology and Deontology Offer Guidelines for Making an Ethical Choice of Healthcare Service Setting within the VHA
Colleen L. Campbell (University of Central Florida, FL, USA)

Chapter 8. Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Continue to Exist in U.S. Veterans Affairs Emergency Departments
Jacob M. Vigil, Sarah S. Stith (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA)

Index

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