San Francisco Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, San Francisco, California, USA.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
Mil Psychol. 2023 May-Jun;35(3):193-203. doi: 10.1080/08995605.2022.2094175. Epub 2022 Jun 30.
Various forms of assistance are offered to help US Veterans achieve success in their post-military lives in recognition of their service. Despite the many successes, a significant number of Veterans continue to remain at risk for negative mental health outcomes, including suicidality and low levels of life satisfaction. These findings may be due to challenges arising from cultural identity dissonance. Problematic strategies used by Veterans to reduce this dissonance can result in a lack of belongingness, a key component in Joiner's Interpersonal Theory of Suicide. The authors suggest that research on the immigrant experience of acculturation may provide a new perspective to better understand issues of identity and sense of belonging in Veterans. Given that most Veterans return to the culture in which they grew up, the authors offer the term "reculturation." The authors propose clinical psychology focus on exploring the reculturation process of Veterans to support program engagement and suicide prevention.
为了表彰美国退伍军人的服役，向他们提供了各种形式的帮助，以帮助他们在退伍后取得成功。尽管取得了许多成功，但仍有相当数量的退伍军人继续面临负面心理健康结果的风险，包括自杀倾向和低生活满意度。这些发现可能是由于文化认同不和谐带来的挑战。退伍军人用来减少这种不和谐的策略可能会导致归属感的缺乏，而归属感是乔伊纳人际自杀理论中的一个关键组成部分。作者建议，对移民文化适应经验的研究可能为更好地理解退伍军人的身份认同和归属感问题提供新的视角。鉴于大多数退伍军人回到他们成长的文化中，作者提出了“再适应”这个术语。作者建议临床心理学专注于探索退伍军人的再适应过程，以支持项目参与和预防自杀。
