Strategies for Managing Stress After War: Veteran's Workbook and Guide to Wellness outlines clear and straightforward strategies for tackling problems such as:
The transition from the war zone is an ongoing, gradual process. This practical, easy-to-read workbook is designed to provide veterans with encouragement, advice, and support as they readjust to civilian life.
This book is designed to help promote the natural recovery of those who have returned from war. You know that coming home from the war zone physically may take a day or days, but coming home mentally is a process that can take weeks or months. Your retransition from the war zone is a period for the natural and gradual process of healing to take place.
Before battle, service members are provided with training and equipment to minimize or prevent physical injuries. When you were deployed to war, you used your military training to adapt to a dangerous, foreign environment. You used what Col. Carl Castro calls your "Battlemind" to survive your hostile surroundings. Readapting to life outside of combat takes a different type of training and a different set of skills.
Resilient people have a set of tools that help them cope with and overcome the stressors in their lives. This progra ... read full excerpt from Strategies for Managing Stress After War: Veteran's Workbook and Guide to Wellness ebook