Re‐integration stress for desert storm families: Wartime deployments and family trauma

摘要: Because the war was relatively brief, casualties light, and Nation sanctioned socially, veterans of Desert Shield/Storm their families were not anticipated to suffer symptoms trauma or re-entry stress beyond that expected in routine peacetime military deployments. However, authors argue imposed on by analogous The call duty unexpected, disruptive, “hazardous” (i.e., highly dangerous) which places it category a “catastrophic” stressor as defined McCubbin Figley (1983). deployment war, creates unique those experienced during also carried with prolonged “anticipation trauma.” For these reasons, argue, created situation “family trauma” for families. Suggestions are offered education, prevention treatment undergoing unexpected wartime