Management of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the British Army

Abstract

Psychotrauma ensues after a traumatic incident, and the incident may involve an array of different occurrences such as witnessing grim physical injury, actual death of an individual(s), sexual abuse, rape, assault, a risk to the psychological or physical injury, or being held, hostage. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a stress and trauma related disorder and has gone through various forms of definitions such as; traumatic war neurosis, railway spine, stress syndrome, battle fatigue, shell shock, post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSS), or combat fatigue. If not managed, post-traumatic stress disorder leads to the impairment in associations of the affected and strain society and families. Set out soldiers are at more high risk of experiencing PTSD though more less than often they receive inadequate treatment. Up to date most of the published literature talks so much about the management in the American Army compared to the rest of the world armies though the British have also done some publications. The goal of this literature review is to look into the management of PTSD in the British Army, look at the treatment models and the successful use of the models. The systematic review looks at PTSD in the army and especially the British army. From the review, I noted that PTSD cuts across all the world military, the models of management are borrowed across the board. In conclusion, PTSD management in the military still has a long way in order to achieve its full mitigation