Stress, Strain, and Vietnam - Hardcover

Camp, Norman M.; Stretch, Robert H.; Marshall, William C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313262721 ISBN 13: 9780313262722

Publisher: Greenwood, 1988

Synopsis

This bibliography collects and summarizes published observations, research findings, opinions, and conclusions of mental health professionals, social scientists, and other trained observers regarding the effects of the Vietnam War on those Americans who fought in it. The 851 citations span the years from 1965, when large numbers of U.S. combat troops were first committed in Vietnam, through 1987.

The authors have included primarily psychiatric, social, and behavioral science publications. These are augmented with personal narratives of those who served, descriptions by and reactions of war correspondents, and historical reviews of the war and the period, including observations and analyses of the war's effect on the combat soldier. Although selections were limited to materials in generally accessible sources--periodicals, journals, books, monographs, and government reports--articles from the popular press were included if they were written by behavioral science professionals or firsthand observations from Vietnam of an especially insightful nature. The volume is arranged topically and is divided into three major parts: service in Vietnam, veteran adaptation, and social and institutional context. Of particular value are the abstracts that succinctly highlight each publication's critical findings, observations, and opinions. From these, the reader can easily survey the psychosocial impact of the war through the panorama of professional study and interpretation. Besides being of interest to behavioral science researchers and military historians, this unique guide to the psychosocial impact of the Vietnam War will be welcomed by medical, psychiatric, and social service workers who deal with veterans as well as the military planners, administrators, and policy makers who determine their fate. In fact, anyone interested in the repercussions of the Vietnam War will find Stress, Strain, and Vietnam a valuable reference and digest.

About this title

About the Author:

NORMAN M. CAMP, M.D., is a recently retired U.S. Army Colonel who served in Vietnam as an army psychiatrist. He has joined the Faculty of the Medical College of Virginia as Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. His articles have appeared in numerous periodicals and he is the author with C.M. Carney of the forthcomig Painful Memories and Crushing Burdens: U.S. Army Psychiatrists in the Vietam War (Greenwood Press).

ROBERT H. STRETCH is a Research Psychologist and a Major in the U.S. Army Medical Sevice Corps. He is currently Scientific Liaison officer for the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command at the Defense and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine, Toronto. He has been researching the psychosocial adjustment of Vietnam veterans for the past nine years.

WILLIAM C. MARSHALL is a consultant to a program for the mentally retarded in Maryland. He received his M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Western Michigan University and was research assistant to Dr. Camp at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

Review:

"The authors have annotated 821 citations to publications since 1965 (books, items from journals, collections, or conferences) by behavioral scientists or insightful firsthand observers describing the effect of the stresses and strains of Vietnam War service upon infantrymen serving in Vietnam (Section 1), and readjusting after Vietnam service (Section 2). The only other access to bibliographic sources for this aspect of the Vietnam War is through database searches of a limited range of periodical literature. . . . The last section, a "psychosocial digest" of late'60s, to early '70s US society, is an excellent, current general bibliography on the Vietnam War . . . recommended for research collections, upper-division college libraries, and other libraries (medical, public, etc.) supporting programs in social work or counseling."-Choice

." . . Excellent reference work for what amounts to the whole psychic scene of the Vietnam War aftermath in the U.S."-Indochina Chronology

?. . . Excellent reference work for what amounts to the whole psychic scene of the Vietnam War aftermath in the U.S.?-Indochina Chronology

?The authors have annotated 821 citations to publications since 1965 (books, items from journals, collections, or conferences) by behavioral scientists or insightful firsthand observers describing the effect of the stresses and strains of Vietnam War service upon infantrymen serving in Vietnam (Section 1), and readjusting after Vietnam service (Section 2). The only other access to bibliographic sources for this aspect of the Vietnam War is through database searches of a limited range of periodical literature. . . . The last section, a "psychosocial digest" of late'60s, to early '70s US society, is an excellent, current general bibliography on the Vietnam War . . . recommended for research collections, upper-division college libraries, and other libraries (medical, public, etc.) supporting programs in social work or counseling.?-Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0313262721
• ISBN 13: 9780313262722
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 334