Beyond war and PTSD: The crucial role of transition stress in the lives of military veterans
Beyond war and PTSD: The crucial role of transition stress in the lives of military veterans
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cpr.2017.11.007
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发表时间：
2018-02-01
影响因子：
12.8
通讯作者：
Bonanno, George A.
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作者：
Mobbs, Meaghan C.;Bonanno, George A.
虽然只有相对少数的退伍军人发展创伤后应激障碍（PTSD），心理健康理论和退伍军人的研究主要集中在PTSD及其治疗。相比之下，许多人和一些帐户大多数退伍军人经历高水平的压力在过渡到平民生活，但过渡压力很少受到关注。在本文中，我们试图通过回顾过渡期退伍军人可能经历的更广泛的挑战、奖励、成功和失败，以及可能影响这些经历的因素来解决这一缺陷。为了阐明这一论点，我们简要地考虑一下成为一名士兵意味着什么（即，过渡到服兵役需要什么）以及更关键的是当退伍军人试图摆脱这种身份时他们可能经历什么样的压力源（即，服兵役后的过渡期）。最后，我们建议如何扩大退伍军人过渡压力的研究计划可能会向前迈进。
Although only a relatively small minority of military veterans develop Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), mental health theory and research with military veterans has focused primarily on PTSD and its treatment. By contrast, many and by some accounts most veterans experience high levels of stress during the transition to civilian life, however transition stress has received scant attention. In this paper we attempt to address this deficit by reviewing the wider range of challenges, rewards, successes, and failures that transitioning veterans might experience, as well as the factors that might moderate these experiences. To illuminate this argument, we briefly consider what it means to become a soldier (i.e., what is required to transition into military service) and more crucially what kind of stressors veterans might experience when they attempt to shed that identity (i.e., what is required to transition out of military service). We end by suggesting how an expanded research program on veteran transition stress might move forward.