Routledge Caring for the Military: A Guide for Helping Professionals

Product Description With overseas deployment scaling down in recent years, helping professionals need practical tools for working with servicemen and women returning from deployment. Caring for the Military, with its case studies and clinical discussions, is indispensable for social workers and other helping professionals working with these populations. Leading experts contribute chapters on the challenges faced by reintegrating members of the military, including returning to a family, entering the workforce, and caring for those with PTSD, TBI, and moral injury. This text also features unique chapters on telemental health, multidisciplinary settings, and caregiver resiliency.  Review  "Joan Beder’s Caring for the Military: A Guide for Helping Professionals should be required reading for any mental health professional in training as well as for any clinician who seeks to provide understanding and compassionate care to our military and to our veterans. Her choice of experts is particularly thoughtful and broad, thus allowing the reader to gain expertise from a wide range of mental health practitioners. I wish I had this book when I first started working with veterans!"― Ann Feder, LCSW-R, VA- VISN Region 3 Mental Health Programs Manager, Bronx, New York   "As a war veteran and combat medic, I can say that this book is clearly the most comprehensive text ever written on ‘caring for the military’ and the challenges returning veterans face upon reintegration into society. This book will be essential to every social worker, psychologist, psychiatrist, or professional working with servicemen and women. The authors should be applauded for demonstrating that sound scholarship and research can be a pleasure to read."―Marvin L. Colson, MA, MS, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University; U.S. Navy, Ret.   "Joan Beder has given us a guide for working with and demonstrating how to care about veterans. This book should be a requirement for every professional who work with veterans and their families."―Frances L. Brisbane, PhD, MSW, Vice President, Office of Faculty, Staff, and Student Diversity, and Former Dean, School of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University About the Author Joan Beder DSW is a professor in the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University in New York. She has been a clinical social worker for over 30 years and maintains a private clinical practice in Long Island, NY. She has published extensively on issues related to the military, bereavement, and medical social work and presented at numerous national and international conferences on a variety of topics.