Healing journeys : study abroad with Vietnam veterans. Vol. 2 of a Vietnam trilogy / Raymond Monsour Scurfield.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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A Vietnam Trilogy is about a side of war that for decades pro-military and pro-defense advocates have systematically suppressed, minimized and denigrated as being falsely exaggerated the indelible human cost of war on its participants that can and does persist for decades. The 3.14 million Vietnam war-zone veterans and 800,000 Vietnam-theater veterans suffering full or partial post-traumatic stress syndrome, and their families will find it invaluable. Volume Two, Healing Journeys, focuses on three Vietnam Vets making a return trip accompanying 16 students on a Study Abroad history course. Especially in the post 9/11, post-Iraq world, this trilogy is important reading for academics and mental health professionals including graduate and undergrad students in history, psychology, social work and religion, and professionals in psychiatry, clinical nursing, counseling, and religion, and academic specialists interested in study abroad programs. Through the wrenching stories of veterans and the authors own understanding as a mental health professional, Scurfield describes his and his comrades experiences during the war; then he describes the healing process fostered by innovative return trips he has led to peace-time Vietnam in 1989 and, in conjunction with a university history program, in 2000, described in this volume. A Vietnam Trilogy offers veterans and their families a vicarious "healing journey" by relating the experiences of those who participated in these therapeutic efforts, and offers recommendations to veterans and those who wish to help them. The therapy breakthroughs for veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are now the model for innovative programs across America; and they will be the foundation for programs to help today's veterans of the Iraq War.

Vietnam, the Gulf Wars, and Back to Vietnam -- Medical Evacuations from the Battlefield to Stateside: A Trail of Tribulation -- Collusions: Sanitizing and silencing the truth about the impact of war -- Racism and war -- Back to Vietnam : with students -- Journal entries -- experiences and observations by (and for) veterans and students -- Reflections and impact : Vietnam 2000 -- Parallels and benefits of returning to Vietnam, 1989 and 2000 -- and even in 1982.

English.

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