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Countering the military's intense indoctrination and training, DE-CRUIT uses routinized techniques derived from principles of classical actor train ing (e.g., experiential analysis, symbolic representation, spoken verse) to transform military camaraderie into camaraderie among treatment group members to communalize the process of healing from the trauma of war. The DE-CRUIT model combines these techniques with treatment elements from two state-of-the-art therapeutic approaches: Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) (which focuses on re-construal of traumatic events and accompanying reactions to enhance an individual's sense of mastery and safety); and Narrative Therapy (which involves the externalization of previously-internalized narratives and a re-examination of habitual reactions to trauma-based triggers). This integrative model is comprised of three major components, each of which is an extension of existing evidence-based treatment principles that are readily adapted for use with military veterans. These components are as follows: Unit Cohesion: Unit cohesion is a bond that is formed among members of a military unit. Because this sense of cohesion becomes so engrained in soldiers, returning veterans often feel untethered upon returning to civilian life when their unit members are no longer alongside them. The DE-CRUIT program adopts the notion of military cohesion as a mechanism to foster bonding among group members and creates a sense of connection grounded in the participating veterans' shared expression of trauma and in their shared goal of adopting the routines of the DE-CRUIT method. These routines include daily breathing exercises, practice in finding and using one's voice, and accessing the symbolic expression of trauma through dramatic verse. Working together to master the recitation of dramatic verse - a skill that is foreign and often intimidating to most of the veterans in the group - reflects the therapeutic notion of feeling "safe, but not too safe", a key technique in trauma therapy that ...Read more

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