Preventing and Treating the Invisible Wounds of War: Combat Trauma, Moral Injury, and Psychological Health
Preventing and Treating the Invisible Wounds of War: Combat Trauma, Moral Injury, and Psychological Health
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Abstract
“Preventing and Treating the Invisible Wounds of War: Combat Trauma, Moral Injury, and Psychological Health” uniquely considers the uncounted costs of military involvement from medical, legal, and philosophical perspectives. Sub-diagnostic mental health conditions linked to military service, including moral injury or remote combat trauma, have complicated the assessment of risks of war. While these conditions demand identification and mitigation based on their impact on warfighters, each condition faces a crisis of legitimacy in the face of competing definitions and lack of longitudinal studies. This volume provides insight on how to address these sub-threshold conditions by adopting four vital perspectives. Proceeding from the proposition that policymakers should carefully consider the full spectrum of costs arising from combat operations when considering the nature and extent of personnel deployment and other commitments, Part I offers five essays that summarize the uncounted societal costs of war trauma. Part II refines the analysis by addressing how contemporary warfare methods have led to unique mental health costs, like moral injury. Having explored the manner in which the invisible wounds of war have imposed particular costs on military effectiveness and society at large, Part III examines methods to mitigate these costs (e.g., establishing diagnostic criteria for moral injury, recognizing moral injury in Veterans Affairs disability ratings). Mitigating these risks may very well require an interdisciplinary team, including military policymakers, surgeons general of the U.S. Armed Forces, public health practitioners, psychologists, philosophers, and Veterans Affairs, to codify these sub-diagnostic conditions into formally recognized mental health disorders.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Recognizing the Transforming Landscape of War Injuries and Treatments
Evan R. Seamone
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Part I The Uncounted Costs of Military Service: Societal Burdens of War Trauma
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Taking the Long View: Modeling Expected Mental Health Care Costs of Military Involvement
Justin T. McDaniel and others
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Military and Veteran Criminality: Responding to Predictable Occupational Hazards from Military Service
Evan R. Seamone
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Generational Trends in Employment and Crime Among Military Families
Justin T. McDaniel and others
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Older Veterans: Lifetime Consequences of Military Service
Kari L. Fletcher and others
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Beyond Combat: Gender and the Construction of Injury in Military Contexts
Walter Callaghan and others
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Taking the Long View: Modeling Expected Mental Health Care Costs of Military Involvement
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Part II The Moral Costs of Warfare: Understanding Moral Injury
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The Look and Feel of Moral Injury
Nancy Sherman
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Moral Injury, Moral Suffering, and Moral Health
Matthew Talbert andJessica Wolfendale
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Weaponized: A Theory of Moral Injury
Duncan MacIntosh
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Remote Combat Exposure and Moral Injury from Drone Operations: The Cost of a New Form of Warfare
Elliot Atkins andEvan R. Seamone
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Incorporating Moral Injury in Military and Veteran Policy
Kirsten Laha-Walsh and others
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The Look and Feel of Moral Injury
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Part III Mitigating the Uncounted Costs of War
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Recruiting, Training, and the Permissible Bounds of Preventing and Mitigating Moral Injury in the U.S. Military
Jesse Hamilton
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Pain, Addiction, and Suicidality Among Veterans: Integrating Evidence-Based, Concurrent Treatment Approaches
Evangelia Banou and others
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Mitigating the Costs of Combat with the Code of Conduct
Kevin H. Govern andStephen N. Xenakis
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Identifying and Treating Moral Injury in Military Members and Veterans
Julie Yeterian and others
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From Cautious to Conscious Inclusion: A Review of Women’s Integration in the U.S. Armed Forces, and Where to Next
Janelle Pham
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Recruiting, Training, and the Permissible Bounds of Preventing and Mitigating Moral Injury in the U.S. Military
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