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Crowder giving presentation at the
Knoxville,TN. PTSD Conference
presented by American Contractors In
Iraq...founder Jana Crowder.
More on Military Dr. E.C. Hurley
Crowder giving presentation at the
Knoxville,TN. PTSD Conference
presented by American Contractors In
Iraq...founder Jana Crowder.
More on Military Dr. E.C. Hurley
Dr. E.C.Hurley- Dr. E. C. Hurley, Ph.D is a retired
Colonel in the U.S. Army with numerous awards
including the Army’s Meritorious Service Medal (with 2
Oak Leaf clusters), the Bronze Star, the Legion of
Merit, and the Air Assault badge. He is currently a
trainer for the Army Medical Command (AMEDD).
Dr. Hurley has been working with soldiers and veterans
since he enlisted as a Private in the Army during the
Vietnam era. Following his retirement from the military
he established Soldier Center (www.Soldier-Center.
com), Clarksville, TN (near Ft Campbell, KY) as a
means of providing effective treatment to our military,
veterans, and their families struggling with complex
issues following combat deployments. Military
personnel, veterans and their families from across the
nation are treated at Soldier Center.
Colonel in the U.S. Army with numerous awards
including the Army’s Meritorious Service Medal (with 2
Oak Leaf clusters), the Bronze Star, the Legion of
Merit, and the Air Assault badge. He is currently a
trainer for the Army Medical Command (AMEDD).
Dr. Hurley has been working with soldiers and veterans
since he enlisted as a Private in the Army during the
Vietnam era. Following his retirement from the military
he established Soldier Center (www.Soldier-Center.
com), Clarksville, TN (near Ft Campbell, KY) as a
means of providing effective treatment to our military,
veterans, and their families struggling with complex
issues following combat deployments. Military
personnel, veterans and their families from across the
nation are treated at Soldier Center.
As Dr. Mark Goulston tells his patients who suffer from
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), "The fact that
you’re still afraid doesn’t mean you’re in any danger. It
just takes the will and the way for your heart and soul to
accept what the logical part of your mind already
knows." In Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For
Dummies, Dr. Goulston helps you find the will and
shows you the way.
A traumatic event can turn your world upside down, but
there is a path out of PTSD. This reassuring guide
presents the latest on effective treatments that help you
combat fear, stop stress in its tracks, and bring joy back
into your life. You'll learn how to:
Whether you're a trauma survivor with PTSD or the
caregiver of a PTSD sufferer, Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder For Dummies, gives you the tools you need to
win the battle against this disabling condition.
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), "The fact that
you’re still afraid doesn’t mean you’re in any danger. It
just takes the will and the way for your heart and soul to
accept what the logical part of your mind already
knows." In Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For
Dummies, Dr. Goulston helps you find the will and
shows you the way.
A traumatic event can turn your world upside down, but
there is a path out of PTSD. This reassuring guide
presents the latest on effective treatments that help you
combat fear, stop stress in its tracks, and bring joy back
into your life. You'll learn how to:
- Identify PTSD symptoms and get a diagnosis
- Understand PTSD and the nature of trauma
- Develop a PTSD treatment plan
- Choose the ideal therapist for you
- Decide whether cognitive behavior therapy is
right for you - Weight the pros and cons of PTSD medications
- Cope with flashbacks, nightmares, and disruptive
thoughts - Maximize your healing
- Manage your recovery, both during and after
treatment - Help a partner, child or other loved one triumph
over PTSD - Know when you're getting better
- Get your life back on track
Whether you're a trauma survivor with PTSD or the
caregiver of a PTSD sufferer, Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder For Dummies, gives you the tools you need to
win the battle against this disabling condition.
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- PTSD Overview
have reactions such as upsetting memories of the
event, increased jumpiness, or trouble sleeping. If
these reactions do not go away or if they get worse,
you may have Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Have you, or someone you know:
Understanding PTSD (PDF)
Includes full color photos, real stories, and more.
- Other Common Problems
The Impact of Event Scale - Revised
The PTSD Checklist - Civilian Version
The PTSD Checklist - Military Version
The Clinician Administered PTSD Scale- DSM-IV
The Mississippi Scale for Civilian PTSD
The Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale
The Trauma Symptom Inventory
The Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children
- Treatment
- Return from War
- PTSD and Communities
- PTSD Research
have reactions such as upsetting memories of the
event, increased jumpiness, or trouble sleeping. If
these reactions do not go away or if they get worse,
you may have Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Have you, or someone you know:
- Been through combat?
- Lived through a disaster?
- Experienced any other kind of traumatic event?
Understanding PTSD (PDF)
Includes full color photos, real stories, and more.
- Other Common Problems
- Discusses ASD, including who is at risk, how is it
treated, and how is it related to PTSD.
- Anger and Trauma-
- Describes the relationship between trauma and
anger and provides treatment strategies for the
three manifestations of anger.
- Reminders of Trauma: Anniversaries-
- On the anniversary of traumatic events, some
people may find that they experience an increase
in distressing memories of the event.
- Avoidance-
- Explains emotional and behavioral avoidance
and how avoidant coping can get in the way of
healing from trauma.
- Chronic Pain and PTSD: A Guide for Patients-
- Learn more about chronic pain, how doctors
evaluate it, and how is may be related to trauma
and PTSD.
- Common Reactions After Trauma
- Following exposure to a trauma most people
experience stress reactions. Here is a description
of the types of common symptoms that can
occur. Common problems are also addressed.
- Depression, Trauma and PTSD
- Explains what depression is, how it is treated,
and what you can do about it.
- Nightmares and PTSD
- Explains what nightmares are, how common they
are, how they are related to PTSD, and what
effective treatments exist.
- PTSD and Problems with Alcohol Use
- The impact of PTSD on alcohol use and
dependence. - PTSD and Substance Abuse in Veterans
- Explains how PTSD is related to Substance Use
Disorder (SUD) in Veterans. Treatment options
are presented.
- Self-Harm
- What is self-harm, how common is it, who
engages in self-harm and why, and treatments
for self-harming behavior.
- Sleep and PTSD
- Learn why people with PTSD may have trouble
sleeping and what they can do about it.
- Suicide and PTSD
- Learn about the relationship between trauma,
PTSD, and suicide.
- Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD
- Discusses TBI, its relationship to PTSD, ways to
cope, and TBI
- Types of Trauma
- Assessment
The Impact of Event Scale - Revised
The PTSD Checklist - Civilian Version
The PTSD Checklist - Military Version
The Clinician Administered PTSD Scale- DSM-IV
The Mississippi Scale for Civilian PTSD
The Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale
The Trauma Symptom Inventory
The Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children
- Several personality/psychological
assessment instruments also have
indicators for PTSD, and may be
approriate depending on your goals,
setting, client, etc.
- MCMI-III
- MMPI
- Rorschach
- Treatment
- Return from War
- PTSD and Communities
- PTSD Research
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*Marines Jail Contractors in Iraq -
Washington Post
July 10, 2005
February 6, 2009
- by David Phinney CorpWatch 2005
See the Zapata Team
- Tension and Confusion Grow amid the 'Fog of War' and Contractors on the Battlefield: *** After breaking news with this story, major news organizations rapidly follow suit, including The Los Angeles
Times, National Public Radio and Washington Post. CorpWatch and Alternate (June 2005). By DAVID PHINNEY
Washington Post
July 10, 2005
- by David Phinney,
Special to CorpWatch
May 24th, 2005
- FoxNews.com
August 17, 2005
- Horror at Fallujah / SAVAGE ATTACK: Bodies dragged through street, hung from bridge 4 U.S. Contractors killed in ambush hours after 5 soldiers slain in Iraq
- S.F.Gate. 2004
- The war in Iraq is killing nine civilian contractors a week on average, roughly three times the rate of last year, and U.S. Government statistics show that non-Americans do most of the dying…. The contractors —
mostly Iraqis and nationals from more than 30 developing nations — perform jobs from guarding senior U.S. Officials to translating, cooking meals, driving trucks, cleaning toilets and servicing weapons systems
and computers.
How many of those TCNs and Iraqi nationals are collecting their benefits as guaranteed by the Defense Base Act remains unexplored territory.
By David Phinney
Maya 24, 2007
- Army Says It Will Withhold $19.6 Million From Halliburton, Citing Potential Contract Breach -Relatives of four security guards killed in Iraq in 2004 spoke at a House hearing Wednesday. The guards
were employed by Blackwater USA.
- By PHILIP SHENON
The New York Times
February 8, 2007
- Private Contractors Outnumber US Troops in Iraq - The figure, higher than reported earlier, doesn't include security firms. Critics say the issue is accountability.
- L.A. Times- July 4, 2007
- By JAMES GLANZ
The New York Times
- The United States has assembled an imposing industrial army in Iraq that's larger than its uniformed fighting force and is responsible for...
By Richard Lardner
- IRAQ: US contractors in Iraq face peril, neglect - by Farah Stockman- Boston Globe October 16th, 2006
- Injured contractors sometimes caught in legal wrangle for disability compensation - Mrinalina Reddy
- Medill Reports Washington
- Nov. 28,2007
- Conference on PTSD and Combat Trauma- A Soldier's Perspective\THE WEB'S LEADING MILITARY BLOG SINCE 2004
- By Ashley Rowland Staff Write
Dec.17,2006
A ‘Clara Barton’ of the Web for Civilian Contractors Injured in Iraq -
- The Rough Cut by David Phinney
- The convoy leader of a Rocky Mount-based National Guard unit rebuts an ABC News report that he and other members of the 1173rd Transportation Company abandoned a civilian convoy.By John
Cramer
Roanoke Times
Oct. 4, 2006
- Do-Nothing Congress?; Civilian Trucker Describes Deadly Ambush in Iraq; Anderson Cooper 360 Sept 28,2006
- Halliburton Watch
Sept, 21 2006
- The New York Times
July 5th, 2007
- Contractors In Iraq Are Targets For Attack - Tens of thousands of civilians are deployed in Iraq, providing logistical support to the troops. Most are motivated by patriotism and the hefty pay. But as
CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian discovered, the danger is great and the toll is high.
- Armen Keteyian
CBS News
February 11, 2009
- June 4 HD.net Program to Highlight Role of Contractors in Iraq War-footage taken at Americancontractorsiniraq.com Conference in Knoxville, TN.
- Draw fire overseas, lack support at home - Recap of the Boston Globe story by Corp Watch
- Two truckers return from Iraq disillusion- CCJ Magazine - By CCJ Staff -Published
- March 12, 2007
- How Iraq Contractors Deal With Trauma- Along with congressional hearings on allegations of recklessness against Blackwater USA security forces in Iraq, questions are also being raised about the way military
contractors deal with traumatic stress while overseas and upon returning home.
- By RUSSELL GOLDMAN
ABC NEWS Oct. 3, 2007
- Special to WorldTribune.com
Jan.17, 2012
- For war zone workers, a new fight. Some US firms deny injury claims-Boston Globe
- Farrah Stockman January 20,2007
Private Trauma
- A Bloody Business, retired Army Colonel Gerald Schumacher wrote, "since the first Gulf war in 1991, the portion of private forces to military forces has more than quadrupled." Today, the Pentagon
estimates that America is employing some 700,000 civilian contractors; 22% of who are American. They are called the "shadow Army."
- Patrick Michels March 21, 2008
- Silent surge in contractor 'armies'- A key support for US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, civilians have little oversight and, back home, little help.
- By Brad Knickerbocker
The Christian Science Monitor July 18, 2007
- War-scarred contractors battle red tape- Civilian workers who claim post-traumatic stress from Iraq and Afghanistan struggle to get treatment.
- June 17, 2007-L.A. TIMES
- By John Rutherford, NBC News producer, Washington
December 20, 2007
- CIVILIAN CONTRACTORS -Contractors wounded or killed in Iraq are the anonymous casualties. Ceremonies are secret, and benefits are scarce.Feb.12 2007 L.A. Times
- SF GATE (San Francisco Chronicle)
Anna Badkhen,
November 19,2006
- Civilian Contractors Face Perils in Iraq- "This article was written by CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian and CBS News producer Phil Hirschkorn."
- Bryce Benson
Published on 05.10.07
- Jeremy Schwartz - AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Nov. 5, 2011
- By James Risen
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE July 5, 2007
- U.S. contractor shot by U.S. forces near base: Truck driver for KBR killed, lawyer for man’s family confirms.
- ABC News - Feb 12, 2007
- By JOHN M. BRODER and JAMES RISEN
- Top Iraq contractor skirts US taxes off shore shell companies in Cayman Islands allow KBR to avoid Medicare, Social Security deductions - CAYMAN ISLANDS - Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top
Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell
companies based in this tropical tax haven.
- By Farah Stockman
Globe Staff
March 6, 2008
- DAILY KOS
- Combat stress afflicts civilian contractors returning from Iraq
Mental health and Psychiatry news Jul 07, 2007
- Read more: Combat stress afflicts civilian contractors returning from Iraq -Mental health and Psychiatry news-WASHINGTON -- Contractors who have worked in Iraq are returning home with the same
kinds of combat-related mental health problems that afflict US military personnel, according to contractors, industry officials, and mental health specialists. But, they say, the private workers are
largely left to find care on their own , and their problems are often ignored or are inadequately treated. A vast second army of contractors, up to 126,000 Americans, Iraqis, and other foreigners, are
working for the US government in Iraq. - By James Risen, New York Times News Service
- Boston Globe - July 5, 2007
- Charley Keye,CNN NEWS November 29, 2011
- In Afghanistan, 105,000
U.S troops are supported by about 101,000 civilian contractor
Only 23,000 of those contractors are U.S. Citizens. About 50,000 are Afghans and 27,900 come from other countries
HOUSTONCHRONICLE
December 24, 2011
- Contractors in War Zones: Not Exactly Contracting. "U.S. Military forces may be out of Iraq, but the unsung and unrecognized part of America’s modern military establishment is still serving and sacrificing —
the role played by private military and security contractors."
- By David Isenberg Oct. 09, 2012
- Contracting in Iraq / Afghanistan Reducing Complex and Emerging Fraud, Abuse, Security and Compliance Risks Affecting Your Contingency Operations Monday,
- February 27 to Tuesday February 28, 2012 TBA, Washington, DC
- Windfalls of war: KBR, the government's concierge KBR's umbrella contract to provide everything from showers to rebuilding airfields tops $37 billion. It's like a gigantic monopoly, says one critic.
September 2, 2011
- Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS)
Jared Wade
- The Invisible Army -For foreign workers on U.S. Bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, war can be hell - "More than seventy thousand third-country nationals” work for the American military in war zones; many
report being held in conditions resembling indentured servitude by subcontractors who operate outside the law. Photographs by Peter Van Agtmael."
- The New Yorker
by Sarah Stillman
June 6, 2011
- War veteran Adam Douglas who is attempting to overturn the decision to cut his benefits. An injured war veteran, left disabled after a grenade attack in Iraq in 2003, feels he being accused of “faking”
his injuries after having his benefits cut. By:Jared Wade
- ByMichael Gisick
Stars and Stripes
Published: June 1, 2010
- Published 5:52 am, Friday, January 25, 2013
SF GATE
Read More from the Houston KHOU TV - Ex-Iraq contractor from Texas gets prison, fraud.
"SAN ANTONIO—A former Texas co-owner of a development company has been sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison for submitting nearly $1.3 million in fake invoices for Iraq reconstruction.
Prosecutors in San Antonio say 33-year-old Jill Ann Charpia in August pleaded guilty to falsifying official documents. The former San Antonio woman was sentenced Thursday in connection with fabricated
documents and forged signatures related to Iraq reconstruction government contracts. She must also pay at least $920,000 in restitution.
Charpia during 2008 and 2009 co-owned Sourcing Specialist LLC, a privately owned firm that contracted with the U.S. Government to help develop business opportunities in Iraq."
February 6, 2009
- Flexing Muscle, Baghdad Detains U.S. Contractors MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and ERIC SCHMITT January 15, 2012
- Masoud Popalzai, CNN December 24, 2012
- As Iraq, Afghan wars end, private security firms adapt
- (Reuters) -" On a rooftop terrace blocks from the White House, a collection of former soldiers and intelligence officers, executives and contractors drink to the international private security industry."
- By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent
WASHINGTON
Oct 21, 2012
