By Alex Horton — 2012
After months or years in far-off war zones, former soldiers are facing a new kind of isolation at college.
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Breaking the cycle of war making: our country will not find peace until we take responsibility for our wars.
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The iconic scene when George C. Scott slaps the soldier with PTSD in Patton and calls him a “yellow-bellied coward” mirrors the historic and continued ambivalence of the military toward the psychological wounds of war.
For Saeed Jones, generations collapse into seconds during an American week of chaos and sorrow.
Normal bereavement and major depression share many of the same symptoms. And because of those similarities, psychiatrists have historically carved out what is known as a "bereavement exclusion." Its purpose was to reduce the likelihood that normal grief would be diagnosed as clinical depression.
I believe that social workers need to focus on that which we are trained to do: extend civic love and compassion to the client, staring where he or she is. We are not wed to the medical model; social work is ecological, psychosocial, and systems oriented.