Many veterans unsuccessfully attempt to self-manage their mental and physical health needs. This volume examines the multiple challenges awaiting the new generation of young veterans returning to civilian life, and provides strategies for mental health professionals to assist them in the process of readjustment. It incorporates multidisciplinary, state-of-the-art research to present practice and advocacy opportunities that facilitate a healthy and socially engaged reintegration into society for both traditional veterans (enlisted and career military personnel) and nontraditional veterans (reservists, national guardsmen, and women) aged 18 to 40 years.

The contextual challenges for young veterans / Diann Cameron Kelly -- Living beyond the intersection of war theater and home : protective factors for healthy reintegration / Alissa Mallow [and others] -- Trauma and the developmental course of PTSD postdeployment / Thomas Quinn and Elizabeth Quinn -- The burden of combat : cognitive dissonance in Iraq war veterans / Wayne Klug [and others] -- Veterans-by-proxy : amending loss of self among the children of combat veterans / Diann Cameron Kelly and Shari Ward -- Coming home : examining the homecoming experiences of young veterans / Donna Caplin and Katharine Kranz Lewis -- Beyond words : homeless veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan / Wesley Kasprow and Robert Rosenheck -- Tragedy, loss, and triumph after combat : a portrait of young women veteran survivors of sexual and combat trauma / Godfrey Gregg and Jamila S. Miah -- Living in transition : young veterans health and the postdeployment shift to family life / Kristy Straits-Troster [and others] -- Ensuring equality after the war for the national guard and reserve forces : revisiting the yellow ribbon initiative / Christina Harnett and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Gafney -- Managing the return to the workplace : reservists navigating the stormy seas of the homeland / Christina Harnett and Joan DeSimone -- Veterans : courts and criminal responsibility : a problem-solving history and approach to the liminality of combat trauma / Justin Holbrook -- The first responders : bridge to protecting veterans : a social worker's design on street reach / Elizabeth Rahilly, Kristen Tuttle, and David Gitelson -- The 21st-century veteran and the 19th-century pension code : why the VA claims process is a steam engine in an e-universe / Thomas Reed.