Beating Combat Stress 101 Techniques for Recovery [Paperback]

• Features 101 field-tested techniques and strategies for managing combat-related stress
• Designed to be accessible and useful both to serving personnel and veterans, and to the professionals and volunteers who are engaged in helping them
• Takes a solution-focused approach to dealing with combat-related problems, promoting simplicity and proven techniques over complex theories and psychological jargon
• User-friendly style and layout, with specially-commissioned illustrations throughout

Foreword.

Preface – The Book's Purpose.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

How to Use This Handbook.

Section 1: Dealing with Triggers .

Section 2: How to Deal with Flashbacks.

Section 3: How to Deal with Unwelcome Thoughts.

Section 4: Dealing with The Lows .

Section 5: Dealing with Sleep Disturbance.

Section 6: Living Life to the Full (or as Full as Possible).

Appendix A: The Evidence Base for Solution-focused Therapy.

Appendix B: Helpful Questions and Statements from the Worker.

Appendix C: What Service Users Have Found to be Helpful in This Work.

Appendix D: How to Avoid Re-traumatisation and Re-victimisation.

Appendix E: Blocks to Disclosing.

Appendix F: The Three Stages: Victim – Survivor – Thriver (Living Life to the Full, or as Full as Possible).

Appendix G: Benefi ts of Doing This Important Work.<lƒ¼