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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Postwar "Transition-Readjustment" | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Combat Stress and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | |
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| Combat Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI/Concussion) | |
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| Navigating the Home-zone Area of Operations: Introduction to "LANDNAV" | |
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| Life Survival Skills-Warrior Reflexes and Sleep | |
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| Become more aware of your reactions by writing about them | |
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| Learn to accept your reactions without judgment or anger | |
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| Improve physical conditioning and relax muscle tension | |
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| Improve sleep | |
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| Learn how alcohol or drugs affect your reactions | |
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| Attend to and Modulate Your Reactions | |
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| Learn to pay attention to your physiological reactions and anxiety level | |
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| Learn to pay attention to your feelings and emotions | |
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| Create space between your reactions to stressful events and behaviors | |
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| Learn to monitor and eliminate "should" and related words or phrases | |
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| Notice your breathing | |
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| Improve your focus and attention through meditation and mindfulness | |
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| Narrate Your Story | |
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| Deal with Stressful Situations | |
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| Resiliency inoculation training (facing your fears) | |
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| Dealing with the "stupid stuff" people do | |
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| Dealing with more-serious situations involving people | |
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| Dealing with anger, rage, and related emotions | |
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| Navigate the Mental Health Care System | |
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| Stigma and other barriers to care | |
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| Road map for getting help | |
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| Types of treatment offered: the cold, hard facts | |
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| Disability and treatment | |
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| Acceptance: Living and Coping with Major Losses | |
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| Understanding the emotions of loss | |
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| Exploring the connections between complex and primary emotions | |
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| Letting go of unanswerable questions | |
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| Coping with grief and survivor's guilt | |
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| Accepting other difficult events that happened in combat | |
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| Navigation Strategies for Spouses, Partners, and Family Members | |
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| Deployment affects everyone | |
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| Your strength and independence | |
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| Tapping into your resources | |
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| Strengthening your relationship and considerations for coping with postwar reactions of your warrior | |
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| Considerations for coping with infidelity | |
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| Helping your children cope with the stresses of deployment and transition | |
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| V = The "V"s!-Vision, Voice, Village, Joie de Vivre, Victory | |
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| References278 | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |