Postdeployment Reintegration - Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces : The National Academies Press , 1999
Postdeployment Reintegration - Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces : The National Academies Press , 1999
From the document: "Although it has come to be well understood that deployments to combat or operations other than war can be highly stressful experiences, the challenges of the return home for service members and their families are frequently given less attention. Nonetheless, aspects of readjustment to the home environment have proved to be significant sources of concern to returning veterans. Many returning Vietnam veterans struggled with relationships with their bosses, coworkers, wives, family, and sexual partners (Egendorf, 1982). Egendorf and colleagues' interview of veterans for their Legacies of Vietnam study found that about 50 percent of the veterans interviewed showed signs of disturbing, unresolved war experiences that affected their everyday lives (Egendorf et al., 1981). The National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study found that 45 and 37 percent of men and women, respectively, serving in the Vietnam theater reported having at least one serious postwar readjustment problem and that roughly one in four Vietnam theater veterans continued to experience at least one such problem when they were surveyed in 1990 (Kulka et al., 1990). Veterans who were exposed to war-zone stress displayed poorer levels of adjustment in family roles and marital relationships than civilians or veterans from the same era who were not deployed to Vietnam (Kulka et al., 1990)."
Authors - Joellenbeck, L. M., Russell, P. K., Guze, S. B.Subjects
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