Trauma-related stress in Australia : essays by leading Australian thinkers and researchers
2016
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This book contains 27 brief and readable essays by leading clinicians, researchers, administrators and observers of the stress that often follows exposure to, or involvement in violence and brutality. The scope and scale of the problem is immense. It touches the lives of millions of Australians and results in massive costs in mental health, criminality, drug and alcohol use, family disruption and lost productivity. Known to earlier generations of the military as "shell shock" this debilitating spectrum of mental changes continues to bedevil growing numbers of our veterans. But it also effects significant numbers of people who work in police forces, ambulance services and other helping professions who, as "first responders" are often witnesses to horrific scenes. Similar manifestations of stress also effect victims of rape, child abuse, domestic violence and incarceration.
Main title:
Trauma-related stress in Australia : essays by leading Australian thinkers and researchers / editors, Bob Douglas and Jo Wodak.
Author:
Douglas, Bob, editorWodak, Jo, editor
Imprint:
Weston, ACT Australia 21, 2016.
Collation:
113 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
Notes:
"September 2016" .
Contents:
Section 1 : Nature and extent o the problem -- The impact of f stress and trauma on mental health ...more than PTSD? -- Is there something special about the traumatic events? -- What we know so far -- Pathways to post traumatic stress disorder -- Neuroimaging of post traumatic stress disorder -- Section 2 : Hazards in specific groups -- Bringing the war home : the rising disability claims of Afghanistan war vets -- One family's story -- A first responder perspective -- Trauma and grief in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people -- Section 3: Social and economic costs -- Post-traumatic stress: a community concern -- Traumatic stress : the uncounted cost -- Cost-benefit analyses of treatments recommended in Australian clinical practice guidelines -- Trauma-related stress among Australia's youth -- Section 4: What is being and needs to be done -- Navigating a path to more effective treatments -- Veteran services -- Investment in a range of treatments -- Some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander solutions -- Recovery needs more than treatment -- Digital technology in veteran and military mental health -- Anger management programs -- Building on the strengths of the victim -- Do sufferers get access to effective treatments? -- The role of workplace support in trauma prevention and recovery -- Returning the service : the healing use of creative arts -- Community supports -- Creating trauma-informed correctional care in the US.
ISBN:
9780995384200
Dewey class:
616.8521
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
17156
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