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The paper describes an OT intervention program for people with combat stress reaction
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The first 48 hours after soldiers encounter potentially traumatic events are critical. It is vital to prevent soldiers from feeling that their feelings of continuity are not interrupted so that they, for example, not stop viewing themselves as soldiers but as "patients". Occupational Therapy, as a discipline that is focused on normal functioning rather than pathology is useful in helping soldiers in such conditions. This paper describes how this kind of intervention can work.
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The first 48 hours after soldiers encounter potentially traumatic events are critical. It is vital to prevent soldiers from feeling that their feelings of continuity are not interrupted so that they, for example, not stop viewing themselves as soldiers but as "patients". Occupational Therapy, as a discipline that is focused on normal functioning rather than pathology is useful in helping soldiers in such conditions. This paper describes how this kind of intervention can work.
Dr. Shahar Gindi
Beit Berl College
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This page is a summary of: Integrating occupational therapy in treating combat stress reaction within a military unit: An intervention model, Work, December 2016, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/wor-162453.
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