Preventing and Treating the Invisible Wounds of War

Justin T. McDaniel, PhD is an Associate Professor of Public Health in the School of Human Sciences at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He also has a joint appointments in the Dale and Deborah Smith Center for Alzheimer's Research and trEatment (CARE) and the Department of Population Science and Policy at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. His scholarship focuses primarily on important social and behavioral issues faced by military service members and veterans. Evan R. Seamone, LPD, LLM, JD, MS, MPP (U.S. Army, Retired) is a fellow of the National Institute of Military Justice and an advisor to the Veterans Justice Commission of the Council on Criminal Justice. He began teaching law following 12 years of active-duty service in the U.S. Army as a military lawyer having worked extensively in the prosecution and defense of felony cases involving Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and other invisible wounds of war. He worked as a Clinic Attorney at the Veterans Legal Clinic of the Harvard Law School and directed the University of Florida Levin College of Law Veterans and Servicemembers Legal Clinic where he taught law students and supervised them in providing legal services to veterans in need. Stephen N. Xenakis, MD Brigadier General (Retired), United States Army, is a former Erik Erikson Scholar at The Austen Riggs Center, an Anti-Torture Advisor for the Physicians for Human Rights, an Executive Board Member at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, and Adjunct Professor at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.

Forward
Preface
Dedication
List of Contributors and Biographies


Introduction: Recognizing the Transforming Landscape of War Injuries and Treatments
Evan R. Seamone

PART I: THE UNCOUNTED COSTS OF MILITARY SERVICE: SOCIETAL BURDENS OF WAR TRAUMA

1. Expected Mental Health Care Costs of Military Involvement
Justin T. McDaniel, Kevin Sylwester, Rick Stapel, Tim Ting, and David L. Albright

2. Military Criminality: Responding to Predictable Occupational Hazards
from Military Service
Evan R. Seamone

3. Generational Trends in Employment and Crime Among Military
Families
Justin T. McDaniel, Eric Black, Harvey Henson, Yorino Kawashima, Jennifer Koran, and Daniel Brown

4. Older Veterans: Lifetime Consequences of Military Service
Kari Fletcher, Eric Black, Rachel Dekel, Mariah Rooney, Jim Martin, and David L. Albright

5. Beyond Combat: Gender and the Construction of Injury in Military Contexts
Walter Callaghan, Maya Eichler, and Victoria Tait

PART II: THE MORAL COSTS OF WARFARE: UNDERSTANDING MORAL INJURY

6. The Look and Feel of Moral Injury
Nancy Sherman

7. Moral Injury, Moral Suffering, and Moral Health
Matthew Talbert and Jessica Wolfendale

8. PTSD Weaponized: A Theory of Moral Injury
Duncan MacIntosh

9. Remote Combat Exposure and Moral Injury from Drone Operations: The Cost of a New Form of Warfare
Elliot Atkins and Evan R. Seamone

10. Incorporating Moral Injury in Military and Veteran Policy
Kristen Laha-Walsh, Haley Steele, and David L. Albright

PART III: MITIGATING THE UNCOUNTED COSTS OF WAR

11. Recruiting, Training, and the Permissible Bounds of Preventing and Mitigating Moral Injury in the U.S. Military
Jesse Hamilton

12. Pain, Addiction, and Suicidality Among Veterans: Integrating Evidence-Based, Concurrent Treatment Approaches
Evangelina Banou, Nicole Angeli, Stacey Sandusky, and Stephanie Miller

13. Mitigating the Costs of Combat with the Code of Conduct
Kevin Govern and Stephen N. Xenakis

14. Identifying and Treating Moral Injury in Military Members and Veterans
Julie Yeterain, Danielle S. Berke, Joel Rosenthal, and Bret Litz

15. From Cautious to Conscious Inclusion: A Review of Women's Integration in the Armed Forces, and Where to Next
Janelle M. Pham

Index