VISTAS Counseling Veterans and Military Families

VISTAS Online is an innovative publication produced for ACA by Dr. Garry R. Walz and Dr. Jeanne C. Bleuer of Counseling Outfitters, LLC. Its purpose is to provide a means of capturing the ideas, information and experiences generated by the annual ACA Conference and selected ACA Division Conferences. Papers on a program or practice that has been validated through research or experience may also be submitted. This digital collection of peer-reviewed articles is authored by counselors, for counselors. VISTAS Online contains the full text of over 900 proprietary counseling articles published from 2004 to 2017.



Families in Crisis: When the Veteran Returns Home

Judith R. Warchal, Paul L. West, Louise B. Graham, Steven B. Gerke, and Aaron J. Warchal

2011

The events of September 11, 2001, changed the world forever. For the first time in modern history, the homeland of the United States was attacked in a significant manner triggering a military response against international terrorism supported by an extreme fundamentalist ideology. The all-volunteer-military, composed of both regular and reserve forces, has fought two wars on two fronts for nearly 10 years resulting in multiple deployments to an inhospitable region of the world that has experienced centuries of political and religious strife. Soldiers have confronted an elusive armed civilian force and have faced a populous not necessarily eager to accept democracy or recognize the military presence as liberating.

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