Veteran/Student Resources: Electronic Books

Leah Wizelman relates the true stories of service members from different service branches and ranks from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Germany, who were participants in various wars and peace missions.

Ask and Tell is an important compilation of unheard voices, offering Americans a new understanding of the value of all the men and women who serve and protect them.

This volume introduces the concept of Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress (PITS), is a form of PTSD symptoms caused not by being a victim or rescuer in trauma, but by being an active participant in causing trauma.

... a concise, current, and accessible overview of this critical issue, including post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), its causes, and its physical and mental consequences.

Eight practical steps to help military families through the unique issues they face

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) offers a promising, empirically validated approach to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma related problems.

The focus of this book is on the relationships between PTSD and chronic health conditions

Fighting for Peace brings to light an important yet neglected aspect of opposition to the Iraq War: the role of veterans and their families. Drawing on extensive participant observation and interviews, Lisa Leitz demonstrates how the harrowing war experiences of veterans and their families motivated a significant number of them to engage in "peace activism. "

The Institute of Medicine carried out a study mandated by Congress and sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide an assessment of several issues related to noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus associated with service in the Armed Forces since World War II.