Swedish Veterans of Foreign Conflicts and Veteran Health Limbo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22158265 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Grimell (0000-0002-7327-8519, Umeå University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 72-79 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Veterans Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2470-4768 • E-ISSN: 2470-4768 |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21061/jvs.v10i2.467 |
| OpenAlex | W4395055971 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article describes the mental health of Swedish veterans of foreign conflicts with a focus on Veteran Health Limbo, which is also the name of an ongoing research project. Veteran Health Limbo refers to those veterans of foreign conflicts whose mental health is suffering, but who do not meet the criteria for clinical PTSD. The term limbo is used because the veterans are in between two health poles: a balanced well-being and a clinically diagnosable deterioration in mental health. Up to half of the patients at the veteran clinic in Sweden belong to this group. The concept of moral injury is a potential lens for understanding a decline in mental health that is not clinical and pathological. This article discusses this in a Swedish context
Computer security · Criminology · Political science · Computer Science · Disaster Response and Management · Medicine · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |