Military Stress And Performance

The Australian defence force experience

By: George E. Kearney, Mark Creamer, Ric Marshall, Anne Goyne

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Focuses on the impact and methods of dealing with stress in a military environment based on research in the Australian Defence Force

People comprise the backbone of any military force. But what happens when the stress of operations becomes overwhelming and those people fail to cope? Stress can have negative consequences for the individual, the organisation, and even for overall combat effectiveness.

The Australian Defence Force has spent many years researching how to maximise individual resilience and performance in the face of extreme stress. For the first time this wealth of knowledge and experience has been brought together in one volume. This work examines the impact of highly stressful events, such as combat and peacekeeping operations, on individual troops and leaders, with a particular focus on factors that build resilience and maximise performance under stress.

Managing stress is an important issue not only for the military, but equally for other high-risk professions such as the police and emergency services. This work provides a unique synthesis of a wide range of research, and clinical and personal experience, providing a coherent, integrated approach to the subject. Of particular use to mental health professionals, it will also be of interest to general readers of military and psychology books.

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Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The stress of deployment	p. 3
Psychological preparation for the battlefield	p. 19
Managing stress in deployed operations	p. 39
Psychological support to Australian Defence Force operations: a decade of transformation	p. 57
Stress resilience and combat: Should gender be an issue?	p. 83
Command at sea in war and peace	p. 98
Critical incident stress management and the pastoral imperative	p. 112
Providing support in long-term hostage incidents: a case study of CARE Australia personnel	p. 125
Postdeployment support	p. 139
Postdeployment predictors of traumatic stress: Rwanda, a case study	p. 151
Assessment of posttraumatic stress	p. 164
Long-term effects of traumatic stress	p. 175
Constructs of recovery and prevention following trauma in navy veterans	p. 187
The treatment of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder	p. 206
Stress and the military: What have we learned?	p. 221
Contributors	p. 232
Abbreviations	p. 238
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 270
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