Posted on 11/10/2009 9:28:07 PM PST by Kukai
ABC's Whitney Lloyd reports from New York:
Fort Hood – where 13 soldiers were killed and 34 more shot by a fellow soldier yesterday – is at the forefront of an Army experiment to combat the emotional assault of war on soldiers.
Major Nidal Malki Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who had treated soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, unleashed his own frustration and fear of an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan in a hail of bullets at Fort Hood – one of only two Army bases participating in a newly launched program to train soldiers in “emotional resiliency.”
Opened just last month, the Fort Hood Resiliency Campus is the Army’s first such facility. It stretches across a city block on the 340-square mile base, complete with such resort-like amenities as a rock climbing wall, yoga studio, juice bar and classrooms where soldiers are taught to be mentally tough.
Using psychological techniques developed at the University of Pennsylvania, soldiers are trained in weekly 90-minute classes to defuse habitual, frustrating ways of thinking that can add to soldiers’ stress.
One training exercise the program uses is that of an unanswered phone call home when deployed. Rather than assume that an unanswered call means their wife is cheating on them, soldiers are taught to recalibrate their thoughts and realize that their wife is most likely busy with their children.
These techniques of mentally disputing irrational thoughts were originally developed for middle and high school students and have been successful in reducing stress and raising students’ grades.
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Bump
And to potlatch for making the pic bump!
Thanks Kim, sorry, I just work so hard on them.
Thnx, had no idea what the MPH stood for..and I should have clicked on the educ tab. The more we learn about this case, including the lack of compassion by the administration, the lack of determination to be proactive, I fear it really will get worse before it gets better.
No I’m sorry! To explain: I just remembered ernest asking you for it on the other thread...I wouldn’t have known about it if not for him...I absolutely know how hard you work on them, and have always appreciated them. I love your work. :-)
[I love your work]
I appreciate that more than you know.
It’s what I do, my gifs are ‘my little children’ now, lol!
It seems that Major Traitor Husan’s idea of “treatment” was to kill them. What a traitorous jihidi!
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