POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND RELATED DISEASES IN COMBAT VETERANS

•Includes in-depth introduction to PTSD
•Collection of case studies from experienced medical officers
•Covers areas specific to war veterans, including PTSD and special operations
•Explores different PTSD treatments, from highly specialized medical treatments such as Stellate Ganglion Blocks, to alternative treatments such as therapeutic dogs

This book takes a case-based approach to addressing the challenges psychiatrists and other clinicians face when working with American combat veterans after their return from a war zone. Written by experts, the book concentrates on a wide variety of concerns associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including different treatments of PTSD. The text also looks at PTSD comorbidities, such as depression and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other conditions masquerading as PTSD. Finally, the authors touch on other subjects concerning returning veterans, including pain, disability, facing the end of a career, sleep problems , suicidal thoughts, violence, , and mefloquine “toxidrome”. Each case study includes a case presentation, diagnosis and assessment, treatment and management, outcome and case resolution, and clinical pearls and pitfalls.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Related Diseases in Combat Veterans is a valuable resource for civilian and military mental health practitioners, and primary care physicians on how to treat patients returning from active war zones.

Table of contents (25 chapters)
1.Introduction and Overview: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Related Diseases in Combat Veterans
2.Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Screening in the US Military and VA Populations
3.Therapeutic Alliance in the Treatment of Combat PTSD
4.Shame and Moral Injury in an Operation Iraqi Freedom Combat Veteran
5.Updates in Psychopharmacology for PTSD and Related Conditions: Focus on the Active Duty Service Member
6.Prolonged Exposure for Combat Veterans with PTSD
7.Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Combat-Related PTSD
8.Psychoanalytic Approaches to Treatment-Resistant Combat PTSD
9.Accelerated Resolution Therapy
10.Meditation for Combat-related Mental Health Concerns
11.Use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of PTSD
12.Adding a Face and the Story to the Data: Acupuncture for PTSD in the Military
13.The Use of Stellate Ganglion Block in the Treatment of Panic/Anxiety Symptoms (Including Suicidal Ideation), with Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
14.Canine Connection Therapy: Finding Purpose and Healing Through the Training of Service Dogs
15.Trauma and Pain: Linking Emotional and Physical Symptoms
16.The Multifactorial Approach to PTSD in the Active Duty Military Population
17.Comorbid PTSD, Bipolar I, and Substance Use Disorder
18.Psychosis Masquerading as PTSD
19.The Mefloquine Intoxication Syndrome: A Significant Potential Confounder in the Diagnosis and Management of PTSD and Other Chronic Deployment-Related Neuropsychiatric Disorders
20.Polytrauma with Sexual Dysfunction in a Female Soldier Following IED Blast Exposure
21.A Community Building Approach to PTSD Using the Arts in a Military Hospital Setting
22.Mental Health Care of Special Operations Forces
23.Treating War-Related Moral Injury and Loss with
24.Treatment of Conversion Disorder with PTSD
25.Intimate Relationship Distress and Combat-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder