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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
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I think we are starting to see the generation of m any great ideas. I think people are getting it. There is a lot any one of us could do — the trick is believing that and moving forward.
I have suggested that Capella could be a great place to centralize information and helping vets and families find places to get help and support. You are seeing some great ideas - in the initial posting here you saw the recommendation as to how mental health students might reach out to the vets. I think that’s a great idea, and I think its important for these students to learn from the vets. What were their experiences; how do they think they were affected; what would be helpful to them; what is not helpful?
We have some insight into these issues from the surveys, but we need to know more and we need to reach out and learn from them.