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Exploring Resilience Models In A Sample Of Combat-Exposed Military Service Members And Veterans: A Comparison And Commentary, Christina M. Sheerin, Kelcey J. Stratton, Ananda B. Amstadter, The Va Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education, Clinical Center (Mirecc) Workgroup, Scott D. Mcdonald
Exploring Resilience Models In A Sample Of Combat-Exposed Military Service Members And Veterans: A Comparison And Commentary, Christina M. Sheerin, Kelcey J. Stratton, Ananda B. Amstadter, The Va Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education, Clinical Center (Mirecc) Workgroup, Scott D. Mcdonald
Psychiatry Publications
Background: The term resilience is applied in numerous ways in the mental health field, leading to different perspectives of what constitutes a resilient response and disparate findings regarding its prevalence following trauma.
Objective: illustrate the impact of various definitions on our understanding and prevalence of resilience, we compared various resilience definitions (absence of PTSD, absence of current mental health diagnosis, absence of generalized psychological distress, and an alternative trauma load–resilience discrepancy model of the difference between actual and predicted distress given lifetime trauma exposure) within a combat-exposed military personnel and veteran sample.
Method: In this combat-trauma exposed …