Handbook of military and veteran suicide : assessment, treatment, and prevention PDF
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i HANDBOOK OF MILITARY AND VETERAN SUICIDE ii iii H A N D B O O K O F M I L I TA R Y A N D V E T E R A N S U I C I D E Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention EDITED BY BRUCE BONGAR GLENN SULLIVAN LARRY JAMES 1 iv 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2017 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. CIP data is on file at the Library of Congress ISBN 978– 0– 19– 987361– 6 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America v Contents Acknowledgments vii 5. Combat Experience and the Acquired About the Editors ix Capability for Suicide 53 Contributors xi Craig J. Bryan Tracy A. Clemans 1. Introduction to Military Suicide 1 Ann Marie Hernandez Elvin Sheykhani Lori Holleran 6. Combat- Related Killing and the Kasie Hummel Interpersonal- Psychological Theory Bruce Bongar of Suicide 64 Lindsey L. Monteith 2. Why Suicide? 10 Shira Maguen Victoria Kendrick Lori Holleran 7. Suicide Risk Assessment with Combat David Hart Veterans—Part I: Contextual Factors 79 Dana Lockwood Christopher G. AhnAllen Tracy Vargo Abby Adler Bruce Bongar Phillip M. Kleespies 3. Suicide and the American Military’s 8. Suicide Risk Assessment with Combat Experience in Iraq and Afghanistan 23 Veterans—Part II: Assessment and Joseph Tomlins Management 89 Whitney Bliss Phillip M. Kleespies Larry James Abby Adler Bruce Bongar Christopher G. AhnAllen 4. Suicide in the Army National 9. Driving Themselves to Death: Covert Guard: Findings, Interpretations, and and Subintentioned Suicide among Implications for Prevention 39 Veterans 103 James Griffith Glenn Sullivan Phillip C. Kroke Timothy B. Hostler vi vi CONTENTS 10. Identifying MMPI- 2 Risk Factors 16. The Problem of Suicide in the United for Suicide 114 States Special Operations Forces 190 John J. Barreto Bruce Bongar Roger L. Greene Kate Maslowski Catherine Hausman 11. Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Suicidal Danielle Spangler Military Personnel and Veterans 121 Tracy Vargo W. Brad Johnson Gerald P. Koocher 17. Managing Suicide in the Older Veteran 201 12. Evidence- Based Treatments for Bavna B. Vyas PTSD: Clinical Considerations for PTSD Lisa M. Brown and Comorbid Suicidality 131 David Dosa Afsoon Eftekhari Diane L. Elmore Sara J. Landes Katherine C. Bailey 18. Person- Centered Suicide Prevention Hana J. Shin in Primary Care Settings 213 Josef I. Ruzek Paul R. Duberstein Marsha Wittink 13. The Collaborative Assessment and Wilfred R. Pigeon Management of Suicidality with Suicidal Service Members 147 19. Caring Letters for Military Suicide David A. Jobes Prevention 240 Blaire C. Schembari David D. Luxton Keith W. Jennings Index 255 14. Healing the Hidden Wounds of War: Treating the Combat Veteran with PTSD at Risk for Suicide 166 Herbert Hendin 15. Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury and Suicide Through the Lens of Executive Dysfunction 178 Beeta Y. Homaifar Melodi Billera Sean M. Barnes Nazanin Bahraini Lisa A. Brenner vii Acknowledgments This book is dedicated to all of our active duty mili- to my summer research students, from whom I have tary and veterans. I would also like to acknowledge learned much: Dave Shaw, Bobby Morris, Hope the contributions of the graduate students in my Hackemeyer, Hannah Granger, Ethan Betts, Phillip Clinical Crises and Emergencies Research group - in Kroke, Nicole Harding, Tim Hostler, and Rachel particular the incredible hard work of our lead gradu- Kroner. ate students for this book, Danielle Spangler and Glenn Sullivan Catherine Hausman. Bruce Bongar I would like to acknowledge and thank all the military personnel and veterans we have lost along the way in In sincere appreciation of my VMI departmental col- service to this great nation. leagues who proudly wore their country’s uniform in Larry James time of war: Thomas N. Meriwether, PhD, Colonel, US Army, Vietnam, and Dave I. Cotting, PhD, Captain, US Army, Operation Iraqi Freedom. And viii ix About the Editors Bruce Bongar, Ph.D., ABPP, FAPM, CPsychol, Medical Center in Salem, Virginia. Dr. Sullivan is CSci, is the Calvin Distinguished Professor of an associate professor of psychology at the Virginia Psychology at Palo Alto University, and served as Military Institute, where he received the Thomas Consulting Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Jefferson Teaching Award, which is presented annu- Sciences at Stanford University’s School of Medicine— ally to a faculty member “deemed especially talented as well as Co- Chair and Director of Training for the at inspiring students in the development of their in- PGSP- Stanford doctor of psychology program. For tellect and character.” In addition to his numerous over three decades, Professor Bongar’s research and publications and presentations, Dr. Sullivan main- published work has focused on the wide-r anging com- tains an active private practice in Lexington, Virginia. plexities of therapeutic interventions with difficult His clinical specializations include psychological as- patients in general, and on suicide and life- threaten- sessment, forensic evaluation, and the treatment of ing behaviors in particular. Dr. Bongar received his combat veterans. Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and served his internship in clinical community psy- Larry C. James, Ph.D., ABPP, retired as a colo- chology with the Los Angeles County Department of nel from the United States Army, and served as the Mental Health. Professor Bongar has consulted and Chair, Department of Psychology at Walter Reed published on the topic of suicide risk management Army Medical Center, and the Chair, Department of and prevention among both active duty military per- Psychology at Tripler Army Medical Center. Colonel sonnel and veteran populations (most recently on the James was awarded the Bronze Star and the Defense issue of suicide among special operations personnel). Superior Service Medal. He is currently the President & CEO of the Wright Behavioral Health Group, Glenn Sullivan, Ph.D., earned his Ph.D. in clini- LLC and a professor at Wright State University. cal psychology at the Pacific Graduate School of Previously he served as the Associate Vice President Psychology, Palo Alto, California. He completed his for Military Affairs at Wright State University in clinical internship at the San Francisco Veterans Dayton, Ohio. Prior to that assignment, he served Affairs Medical Center and a postdoctoral residency in as the Dean, School of Professional Psychology, postdeployment mental health at the Veterans Affairs Wright State University from 2008 to 2013. He
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