PTSD 101 Courses: Combat Stress Injuries

Author: William P. Nash, MD

Goals and Objectives

1. Describe the major stressors of combat and operational military deployments, and of subsequent homecoming
2. Describe the two main reasons for the gap between relatively frequent adverse stress responses during deployment and relatively mental health diagnosis and treatment after deployment
3. Describe the three tactics of normal adaptation to stress, and the normal time course for adaptation and re-adaptation
4. Describe the differences between normal adaptive responses to stress and those that are symptomatic of a stress injury, and list the three common mechanisms of stress injury
5. Describe the major components of traumatic stress injuries, and the nature of the biological and psychosocial damage such injuries entail

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