Biobehavioral Resilience to Stress

by Lukey; Brian J

• ISBN13: 9781420071771
• ISBN10: 1420071777
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-19
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Military service involves exposure to multiple sources of chronic, acute, and potentially traumatic stress, especially during deployment and combat. Notoriously variable, the effects of stress can be subtle to severe, immediate or delayed, impairing individual and group readiness, operational performance, anda??ultimatelya??survival. A comprehensive compilation on the state of the science, Biobehavioral Resilience to Stressidentifies key factors and characteristics that are essential to a scientifically useful and behaviorally predictive understanding of resilience to stress. Contributions from Uniquely Qualified Military and Civilian ExpertsInitiated by the Military Operational Medicine Research Directorate of the US Army Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC), this seminal volume integrates recent research and experience from military and civilian experts in behavioral and social sciences, human performance, and physiology. Each chapter is grounded invigorous research with emphasis on relevance to a variety of real-world operations and settings, including extreme environments encountered in modern war. Logical Progression, Cross-Disciplinary Appeal Organized into four sections, the text begins with a discussion of the relevant aspects of stress in the context of military life to offer civilian readers a window into contemporary military priorities. Later chapters consider biological, physiological, and genetic factors, psychosocial aspects of resilience, and a??community capacitya?? variables that influence psychological responses to stressful events. This multidisciplinary effort concludes with an overview of emergent themes and related issues to advance the science of resilience toward predictive research, theory, and application for all thosea??military and civiliana??who serve in the national defense.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Editors	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Stress and Resilience in Military Life
Psychological Screening: Predicting Resilience to Stress	p. 3
Resilience and Military Psychiatry	p. 25
The Stresses of Modern War	p. 43
Resilience through Leadership	p. 57
Physiology of Stress and Resilience
Adaptation to Stress and Psychobiological Mechanisms of Resilience	p. 91
Psychophysiology of Resilience to Stress	p. 117
Resilience and Survival in Extreme Environments	p. 139
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors	p. 177
Psychosocial Aspects of Resilience
Resilience and Personality	p. 219
Cognitive Performance and Resilience to Stress	p. 259
The Impact of Social Structural Conditions on Psychological Resilience to Stress	p. 301
Resilience as an Empirical and Operational Priority
Resilience: Toward the State of the Possible	p. 321
Index	p. 333
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