Overview
- How military culture and military law affect the immediate aftermath of MST
- Examines current research on treatment and effectiveness of various therapies for MST related trauma
- Details the various diagnosis that result from MST
Part of the book series: Focus on Sexuality Research (FOSR)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Military Sexual Trauma
- Military sexual assault
- PTSD treatments
- Pregnancy From Military Sexual Trauma
- Sexual Assault in the United States Military
- Sexual Assault within the American Culture
- Treating the Trauma of Sexual Assault in the Military
- coping with rape
- domestic violence
- military rape
- neurobiology of trauma
- sexual assault as a method of war
- sexual violence in war
- Male military sexual trauma
- Multiple-perpetrator sexual assault
- Evidence-based practices for PTSD and depression treatment
- Tri-phasic model of treatment and healing
- Ethics for trauma clinicians
- Substance abuse disorders
- Attachment Theory
About this book
This authoritative update presents current findings on—and clinically and ethically sound responses to—the epidemic of sexual assault in the military. It examines in powerful detail how military culture enables a pervasive subculture of sexual violence, from consistently devaluing women to blaming victims and denying them justice. The author’s dual attachment/trauma theory lens attends to a wide range of outcomes such as unit members closing ranks against survivors and the continuing impact of assault trauma on veterans’ lives. And the book’s second half critiques standard forms of treating military sexual trauma in favor of individualized therapy addressing the physical, psychological, and neurological aspects of trauma and recovery.
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This important volume covers:
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·        Theory and history of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
·        Legal and health considerations in the aftermath of military sexual assault.
·        Critical distinctions between military and civilian legal response to sexual assault.
·        Variations in symptomology among survivors.
·        Specific barriers to services for male and LGBT survivors.
·        New and emerging treatment options for military sexual trauma/PTSD.
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This Second Edition of Understanding and Treating Military Sexual Trauma follows its predecessor as an essential reference on its subject for mental health clinicians treating sexual trauma in the military as well as trauma researchers, sociologists, women’s health practitioners, and university students whose focus is women’s studies, public policy, public health, social work, psychology, sociology, or political science.                                  Â
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kristen Zaleski, PhD, LCSW is a sexual assault victim advocate, researcher, professor and psychotherapist in Southern California. Her decade-long work with sexual assault survivors spans inpatient and outpatient settings, and she has a dual specialty in civilian and military sexual trauma.  Dr. Zaleski has published research on treatment for sexual assault-related PTSD and was the first to ever publish on the psychological effects of pregnancy that results from a sexual assault. Dr. Zaleski continues to explore clinical phenomena in the areas of rape culture, health social work, LGBTQI experiences, empathy, mothering, vicarious trauma and attachment-related trauma through a neurobiological lens. She also maintains a private practice in Los Angeles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding and Treating Military Sexual Trauma
Authors: Kristen Zaleski
Series Title: Focus on Sexuality Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73724-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73723-2Published: 11 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08843-9Published: 11 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73724-9Published: 02 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2195-2264
Series E-ISSN: 2195-2272
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXI, 163
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland