 | Courage After Fire: Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Families by Keith Armstrong
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.47 Written specifically to help returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan and their families, this book is highly relevant for all combat veterans. Easy to understand and connect with.
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 | Principles of Trauma Therapy : A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation and Treatment by John N. Briere
Buy new: $82.75 / Used from: $74.98 A must-have for any therapist's library who treats trauma-related problems. Instead of focusing on neurological aspects of trauma and other scientific, technical, laboratory-based info, this book provides insight into the impact of trauma on the human being, their values, and their perceptions of life. Still scientifically accurate, it doesn't forget the basics of good quality therapy.
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 | Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character by Jonathan Shay
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.99 An excellent book about how people's behaviors change dramatically and unpredictably in combat. Also points out that all that has changed in centuries are the weapons we use.
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 | The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms by Mary Beth Williams
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $11.00 A beginner's guide to treating PTSD. A good place to start getting better.
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 | Effective Treatments for PTSD: Practice Guidelines from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
Buy used from: $39.81 A great book explaining the most common treatment modalities for PTSD. This one tends to be more academic in nature and empirically backed.
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 | The War Tapes
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $5.84 A candid, raw look into the war in Iraq (OIF) through the eyes of the soldiers' fighting it. Graphic at times.
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 | A Clinical Handbook/Practical Therapist Manual for Assessing and Treating Adults with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) by Don Meichenbaum
Buy used from: $35.00 Excellent resource for therapists. A must have on your bookshelf. This is not a well-known book, and it wasn't marketed much at all. However, it contains a ton of useful information.
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 | When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life by David D. Burns M.D.
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $8.89 Don't let the title fool you, this isn't just for anxiety/panic. There are some great tools in here that will help you make lasting change and improvement in your symptoms. Another hidden gem.
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 | At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace by Claude Anshin Thomas
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.15 A Vietnam veteran relates his struggles and shares what has been helpful for him. A simple, yet insightful book.
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