The Iraq War Clinician Guide, 2nd Edition
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The Iraq War Clinician Guide was developed by members of the National
Center for PTSD and the Department of Defense. It was developed specifically
for clinicians and addresses the unique needs of veterans of the Iraq war.
For the complete PDF, click Iraq War Clinician Guide, 2nd Edition. You
can also download individual chapters by clicking on the chapters below.
Contents
Cover Page
I. Executive Summary
Key Topics
II. Topics Specific to the Psychiatric
Treatment of Military Personnel
III. The Returning Veteran of the Iraq War: Background Issues and
Assessment
Guidelines
IV. Treatment of the Returning Iraq
War Veteran
Special Topics
V. Treatment of Medical Casualty Evacuees
VI. Treating the Traumatized Amputee
VII. PTSD in Iraq War Veterans: Implications
for Primary Care
VIII. Caring for the Clinicians Who
Care for Traumatically Injured Patients
IX. Military Sexual Trauma: Issues in
Caring for Veterans
X. Assessment and Treatment of Anger in Combat-Related PTSD
XI. Traumatic Grief: Symptomatology and Treatment for the
Iraq
War Veteran
XII. Substance Abuse in the Deployment
Environment
XIII. The Impact of Deployment on
the Military Family
Appendices
A. Case Examples from Operation Iraqi
Freedom
B. VA/DoD PTSD Practice Guideline Table of Contents
Web Link: VA/DoD PTSD Practice Guideline Link
PDF: VA/DoD PTSD Practice Guideline
C. VA Documents on Service Provision
D. Assessment of Iraq War Veterans: Selecting Assessment Instruments and
Interpreting Results
E. Program Evaluation
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J. Educational Handouts for Iraq War Veterans and Their Families
