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Resiliency training in Iraq keeps Soldiers strong
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COB BASRA, Iraq –
An effective Soldier is trained with the skills necessary for the mission, such as first aid and weapons expertise. But, in addition to these tactical proficiencies, Soldiers have to be prepared for the emotional and mental stress of being deployed away from home.
The Army has designated master resiliency trainers to make certain Soldiers are so prepared.
“I go on a battle circulation and I teach resiliency skills, which are coping skills,” said Master Sgt. Katrina Carter, a master resiliency trainer with the 1st Infantry Division surgeon section, deployed to Contingency Operating Base Basra, Iraq. “Resiliency is being able to bounce back from adversity,” said the St. Louis, Mo. native, “It’s a way of thinking.”
Trainers are taught to address five pillars of resiliency: physical, spiritual, familial, emotional, and social. The pillars are just that: sources of support that master resiliency trainers can help Soldiers develop to better prepare and sustain them through their deployments, said Carter.
“Soldiers have so much going on – here, in Iraq, but also back at home,” she said. “We want Soldiers to be able to continue their mission and deal with their daily lives, because if a Soldier’s home life is not going well, they’re not going to do well on their mission.”
One of the skills taught is called ‘put it in perspective’ and involves taking the common initial worst-case scenario assumptions and countering them with a best-case scenario, said Carter.
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Resiliency training in Iraq keeps Soldiers strong. By Spc. Samuel Soza, USD-S Public Affairs Office. http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/05/01/38384-resiliency-training-in-iraq-keeps-soldiers-strong/?ref=news-home-title4 [Accessed 05 APR 2010]
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WASHINGTON (Army News Service, April 14, 2010) –
You are a Soldier, and your platoon is assigned to manning a highway checkpoint in Iraq. Yesterday, a car refused to stop despite your team’s warnings.
According to the rules of engagement, your platoon opened fire on the vehicle, killing those inside. Upon investigation you found no evidence of insurgent affiliation or weapons inside the car. Now, laden with guilt, you are not sure you can continue doing your job. What do you do?
Giving Soldiers tools to deal with realistic scenarios like this one are central to the Army’s Master Resilience Trainer course, or MRT, in Philadelphia where Secretary of the Army John McHugh visited Tuesday.
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JH, Neumeister A. Noradrenergic and serotonergic mechanisms in the
neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder and resilience. Brain
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Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06516, USA.
Posttraumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized mainly by symptoms of
re-experiencing, avoidance and hyperarousal as a consequence of
catastrophic and traumatic events that are distinguished from ordinary
stressful life events. Although extensive research has already been
done, the etiology of PTSD remains unclear.
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Abstract
In the first prospective study, to our knowledge, of the impact of ongoing terrorism and political violence, we analyzed nationally representative data from 560 Jews and 182 Arabs in Israel over a 6-month period. Based on Conservation of Resources (COR) theory (Hobfoll, 1989, 1998), we predicted that exposure to terrorism and political violence would result in psychosocial and economic resource loss and resource lack, which in turn, would be primary predictors of increases in symptoms of posttraumatic stress (PTS) and depression.
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