Therapeutic response to combat stress reaction during Israel's wars: Introduction

✍ Scribed by Zahava Solomon

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 202 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.2490080205

✦ Synopsis

Combat stress reaction (CSR), a psychological breakdown on the battlefield, is currently viewed in Israel as an inevitable consequence of war. It is seen as a transitory crisis that may affect any soldier as a result of the massive stress to which the soldier has been exposed. The IDF has adopted functional rather than clinical diagnostic criteria to assess CSR.

These are based on Kormos' (1978) definition:

Acute combat reaction consists of behavior by a soldier under conditions of combat, invariably interpreted by those around him as signalling that the soldier, although expected to be a combatant, has ceased to function as such. (p.