{"id":30550,"date":"2012-06-27T19:02:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30550"},"modified":"2012-06-27T19:02:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T23:02:10","slug":"study-veterans-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30550","title":{"rendered":"Study: veterans and violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

PsychCentral<\/a> reports on a study that tells us what we already know – it’s not PTS that makes veterans violent, but rather pressures that surround them when they exit the military. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you hear about veterans committing acts of violence, many people assume that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or combat exposure are to blame,\u201d Elbogen said. \u201cBut our study shows that is not necessarily true.\u201d<\/p>\n

Factors that were associated with violence included alcohol misuse, criminal background, as well as veterans\u2019 living, work, social, and financial circumstances.<\/p>\n

Wealth was an issue as the survey found that veterans who didn\u2019t have enough money to cover basic needs were more likely to report aggressive behavior than veterans with PTSD.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur study suggests the incidence of violence could be reduced by helping veterans develop and maintain protective factors in their lives back home,\u201d Elbogen said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, so veterans are just like normal people? Really? Who knew?<\/p>\n

So, because we’re like everyone else, maybe treating us like we’re all John Rambo, one traffic stop away from a murderous rampage is the wrong approach to dealing with veterans.<\/p>\n

Treat us as if we’re just like you. And sometimes we’re our own worst enemy about that. One of my workmates was a supply clerk in Vietnam and he used to act like the crazy Vietnam veteran and made the whole office scared of him – breaking into Tourret’s-like cussing spells when things didn’t go his way. It led to the whole office treating us newly-hired veterans like we were all a bunch of lunatics and it created a tense working environment.<\/p>\n

But civilians should judge veterans like they do anyone else they meet on the street instead of like we’re recently-caged animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PsychCentral reports on a study that tells us what we already know – it’s not PTS … Study: veterans and violence<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}