title: Women and men who have served in Afghanistan/Iraq: coming home.
abstract: The experience of war changes people - some will acknowledge that the changes are positive and some will feel the opposite or a combination, but that it changes a person cannot be disputed. For those who return, the experience of reintegration to civilian life or as a respite before redeployment can present numerous challenges. The research presented in this article reports the findings on interviews with over 800 service members who had returned from either Afghanistan or Iraq. The Post Deployment Reintegration Scale was used to refine the areas that respondents identified as positive or negative in their reintegration experience. Implications for practice with returning service members are noted.
authors.affiliation: Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University, New York, USA. beder@yu.edu
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Beder
authors.forename: Ray
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Coe
authors.forename: Darren
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sommer
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D055826:Afghan Campaign 2001-; D000346:Afghanistan; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007493:Iraq; D054542:Iraq War, 2003-2011; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D009657:North Carolina / Q000453:epidemiology; D060051:Occupational Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology; D012947:Social Work; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000453:epidemiology; D014728:Veterans / Q000523:psychology*; D014857:Warfare; D055815:Young Adult