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If you’re a servicemember who has returned to your community after combat duty, what gestures of support were most helpful to you or your family? If you’re a family member, friend, coworker or neighbor, what are your best ideas for helping servicemembers’ re-entry to their home communities be as smooth as possible?
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Resources for mental health professionals
Resources for servicemembers and their families
- A Survivor’s Guide to Benefits: Taking Care of Our Own
- Anticipatory Grief
- Bereavement Counseling
- Deployment Health and Family Readiness Library
- Listen to a discussion of the mental health needs of returning servicemembers
- Military and Veterans: Substance Use and Co-occuring Disorders Among Military and Veterans
- Military One Source
- National Military Family Association
- National Veterans Foundation
- Recovery and the Military: Treating Veterans and Their Families
- Returning from the War Zone: a Guide for Families of Military Members
- Returning from the War Zone: A Guide for Military Personnel
- Seamless Transition
- What Military Families Should Know About Depression
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July 26th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
This was so on target.
Reading your thoughts gave be great pause and contemplation.
How do we help the families understand?
How do help all the people who want to help understand.
Just the idea that I needed - or need - help is hard to digest.
I guess that at some level I wanted people to care, but at the same time, I did not want to talk about it.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Dear Retired,
I agree with both you and Col. Wilson that this information is right on. There are so many perspectives that we each hold, and no one can understand; we can however care!
RandyLynn
Prior U.S. Navy