Military Psychology: Understanding the Mind in Defense and Combat Environments
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Virversity Online Courses
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to Military Psychology, exploring the critical role psychological principles play within military settings. Students will gain insight into human behavior in combat, mental health challenges faced by service members, and leadership strategies to enhance team cohesion and decision-making. Explore Psychological Principles Impacting Military Personnel Understand the history and evolution of military psychology and its practical applications Learn to identify and manage stress, trauma, and PTSD specific to combat environments Develop techniques to build resilience and psychological strength among soldiers Examine leadership psychology and decision-making under pressure in military contexts Discover psychological assessment tools and strategic methods including PSYOPS and behavioral profiling Explore ethical considerations and support systems for military personnel and their families Gain insights into rehabilitation and reintegration strategies for veterans Comprehensive study of psychological factors that influence military effectiveness, mental health, leadership, and ethical responsibilities. This course begins with foundational lessons on the role and history of military psychology, providing context to how psychological science supports military operations and personnel.
ISBN: 9781456668808
Publication Date: 2025
Review of the Department of Veterans Affairs Presumption Decision Process
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Committee to Review the Department of Veterans Affairs Presumption Decision Process; Bruce N. Calonge (Editor); Anne N. Styka (Editor)
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides health care and other benefits to eligible veterans with physical and mental injuries or illnesses (conditions) related to their military service. When the scientific information needed to connect a veterans service or a particular military exposure with their diagnosed condition is nonexistent, impossible to obtain, or incomplete, VA may make a presumption of service connection using a formalized decision process. In 2022, VA instituted a series of changes intended to ensure the presumption decision process was more scientifically based, fair, consistent, transparent, timely, and veteran-centric. The PACT Act of 2022 called for a National Academies committee to review the VA revised process document used to identify medical conditions to evaluate for presumption status, the factors that such an evaluation entails, and the governance process for the review and approval of a presumption recommendation. This resulting report, Review of the Department of Veterans Affairs Presumption Decision Process, contains the committee findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
ISBN: 9780309707015
Publication Date: 2023
Service Denied
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John M. Kinder (Editor); Jason A. Higgins (Editor)
Wartime military service is held up as a marker of civic duty and patriotism, yet the rewards of veteran status have never been equally distributed. Certain groups of military veterans--women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and former service members with stigmatizing conditions, "bad paper" discharges, or criminal records--have been left out of official histories, excised from national consciousness, and denied state recognition and military benefits. Chronicling the untold stories of marginalized veterans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Service Denied uncovers the generational divides, cultural stigmas, and discriminatory policies that affected veterans during and after their military service. Together, the chapters in this collection recast veterans beyond the archetype, inspiring an innovative model for veterans studies that encourages an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of veterans history. In addition to contributions from the volume editors, this collection features scholarship by Barbara Gannon, Robert Jefferson, Evan P. Sullivan, Steven Rosales, Heather Marie Stur, Juan Coronado, Kara Dixon Vuic, John Worsencroft, and David Kieran.
ISBN: 9781625346537
Publication Date: 2022
Veterans Benefits for You
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Paul R. Lawrence
All veterans and their families deserve the maximum benefits they earned by bravely serving their country! Veterans of the United States armed forces are entitled to a broad range of benefits and services provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Dr. Paul R Lawrence, former Under Secretary for Benefits in the Department of Veterans Affairs, provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and accessible guide to all the benefits and services available to veterans of the US armed services and how to make the most of these benefits and services.
ISBN: 9781630062163
Publication Date: 2022
When Cowboys Come Home: Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post–World War II America
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Aaron George
When Cowboys Come Home: Veterans, Authenticity, and Manhood in Post-World War II America is a cultural and intellectual history of the 1950s that argues that World War II led to a breakdown of traditional markers of manhood and opened space for veterans to reimagine what masculinity could mean. Aaron George presents three intellectual biographies of important veterans who became writers after the war Through their lives, George shows how wartime disabused men of the notion that war was inherently a brave or heroic enterprise and how the alienation they felt upon their return led them to value the authentic connections they made with other men during the war.