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Combat Stress Injuries Providers and Researchers Combat Stress InjuriesThis presentation examines the common stressors of operational military deployments, from the merely annoying through the potentially devastating, and places such experiences in their context defined by military cultural values and identity. The normal process of adaptation to stress is described, and it is contrasted with the injuries that can be inflicted on the mind and brain when adaptive capacities are exceeded. The three major mechanisms of stress injury are listed, and the effects of one of them (traumatic stress) are described in detail. Author:William P. Nash, M.D. Dr. Nash has completed nearly thirty years of active military service, including as Captain in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps. More... Goal:This course presents a model for discriminating normal, adaptive responses to combat and operational stress from those that entail injury to the mind and brain, and it provides a language for labeling operational stress reactions that destigmatizes without trivializing potentially serious problems. Objectives:After viewing the presentation, the participant will be able to:
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