Healing Suicidal Veterans: Recognizing, Supporting and Answering Their Pleas for Help [Paperback]

Victor Montgomery III (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 13, 2009

Veterans are suffering a “mental breakdown” epidemic, often linked to post traumatic stress from the terrors of combat, traumatic brain injury, and drug and alcohol abuse. The problems triggered by an excessive number of deployments, financial and family trouble, fragmented or nonexistent support systems, and increased domestic stress have caused a mass depression among vets. Healing Suicidal Veterans takes readers firsthand into the “situation room” where crisis intervention and addiction therapist Victor Montgomery explores the psychological wounds of war and the ways they contribute to the tragedy of suicidal veterans. He presents the Montgomery Model for ending veterans' suffering and anguish and putting them on solid paths to healing. The book offers veterans strategies for realizing they are not failures if they seek aid, and it gives families and loved ones ways to understand, cope with, and help their veteran in need.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: New Horizon Press (October 13, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882823108
• ISBN-13: 978-0882823102
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,626,787 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Should be on the shelf of any and every psychologist who treats veterans, December 15, 2009

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This review is from: Healing Suicidal Veterans: Recognizing, Supporting and Answering Their Pleas for Help (Paperback)

Combat can inflict lifelong mental trauma. "Healing Suicidal Veterans: Recognizing, Supporting, and Answering Their Pleas for Help" is a psychologist's guide to dealing with the serious mental disorders that are common to those who have experienced combat in the past generation of wars, in particular the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. "Healing Suicidal Veterans" should be on the shelf of any and every psychologist who treats veterans.