Psychological Intervention with Military Personnel in Rwanda

Psychological Health of Military Personnel

The House of Commons Defence Select Committee1 has stated that more resources are needed to support military personnel, particularly in mental health services. This note examines the impact of military service on the psychological health of serving personnel, reservists, veterans and their families. It outlines the effectiveness of interventions, and highlights areas for further research. Overview

Screening for psychological illness in military personnel.

ONGOING EVENTS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN HAVE led to renewed calls to implement widespread screening of members of armed forces to identify those at risk of future psychiatric injury before deployment and to identify those with psychological problems on their return home. If the military could predict who will develop psychological illness due to combat stress, military personnel and commanders w...

Psychological and Physiological Selection of Military Special Operations Forces Personnel

Notwithstanding the risky, unconventional, and demanding nature of Special Operations Forces (SOF) missions, the assessment and selection of SOF candidates should be governed by the same principles that prevail in the selection of candidates in other sophisticated organizations. This chapter applies western industrial psychology guidelines and procedures to SOF by providing a general overview o...

Identify Coping Mechanisms to Deal with Stressors in Military Personnel

Background and Aim: The military personnel face many stressors. This study aimed to identify coping mechanisms in the face of stressors in military personnel. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study and the sample was 384 of staffs affiliated to Iranian Navy Force, who were selected by cluster random sampling. Data collection tools were demographic questionnaire, a military stressors questionn...

Burnout in Military Personnel