PTSD claims, #20 – Pinkduck

Posted on October 6, 2024 by pinkduck

“Personal tragedy, suicide, depression, alcohol and drug use, reliving terror,” he rattles off as consequences.”

This quote is a definitional claim. While it is not directly saying what PTSD is, it does mention what happens when someone is experiencing PTSD.

“the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study, the most comprehensive study of combat stress ever conducted, points out that you really have to spend the money to treat PTSD, since the costs of not treating it are so much higher.”

This quote is a moral/ethical claim as it encourages a moral responsibility on giving veterans the support they need for their mental health. If one goes untreated for PTSD the consequences to that are as stated, “so much higher.”

“There were 2.4 million soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.”

This is a factual claim as it is evidence.

“Steve served in Vietnam, fought in the Tet Offensive. The chaplain assured him that he shouldn’t feel bad about killing gooks, but the chaplain was paid by the Army, and who took moral advice from a chaplain carrying a .38? Back at home, Steve drank wildly. He waged war with his wife, attempted to work odd jobs where he had as little contact with humans as possible. But then he got divorced, and then he got with Charlene in 2001, and then he got in a big fight with Charlene and pulled the rifles out and sent her fleeing into the night, through the woods to the closest neighbor’s house a mile away. But then he got inpatient psychiatric treatment in Seattle, several times, and found Jesus, and only ever has a beer or two, and now you have never seen two people so in love in any double-wide in the United States.”

This section is a numerical claim, it talks about Steve’s life in chronological order.

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PTSD Claims – Softball1321

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Softball1321

“In the wake of Vietnam, 38 percent of marriages failed within the first six months of a veteran’s return stateside; the divorce rate was twice as high for vets with PTSD as for those without.”

  • This is both a quantitive and factual claim because it is a statement that describes the percentages of divorce rates, which is scientifically proven.

“By this point, you might be wondering, and possibly feeling guilty about wondering, why Brannan doesn’t just get divorced.”

  • This is an evaluative claim because it shows the writer is evaluating the readers feelings. This statement is judging the characteristics of the situation that divorce is common during those tuff times of Vietnam.

“Vietnam vets with severe PTSD are 69 percent more likely to have their marriages fail than other vets. Army records show that 65 percent of active-duty suicides, which now outpace combat deaths, are precipitated by broken relationships.”

  • This is both a quantitive and factual claim because it can be proven true. The author provides the audience with numerical claims with percentages from the outcome of PTSD.

“Children and teenagers of a parent who’s committed suicide are three times more likely to kill themselves.”

  • This is a quantitive and comparative claim. It shows the situation of a “more likely to” situation, in this case which is the high risk of suicide between children and teenagers who parents have and have not committed suicide.

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PTSD Claims—GamersPet

Posted on October 6, 2024 by GamersPet

Section 9:

At home after school, she makes Katie a pancake snack and then, while Katie shows me the website for a summer camp that teaches military spy skills, Brannan gets back to work. Because she also helps thousands of other people—measured by website and social-media interactions—through Family of a Vet, a nonprofit created “to help you find your way, find the information you need, and find a way not only to cope with life after combat…but to survive and thrive!” Brannan founded the organization in 2007, after panicked Googling led her to the website of Vietnam Veteran Wives (VVW) when Caleb returned from his second tour. Life after the first tour had been pretty normal. “Things were a little…off,” Caleb was edgy, distant, but he did not forget entire conversations minutes later, did not have to wait for a stable mental-health day and good moment between medication doses to be intimate with his wife, and then when he finally tried, pray to Christ for one of the times when it’s good sex, not one of the times when a car door slams outside and triggers him, or the emotion becomes so unbearable that he freezes, gets up, and walks wordlessly out the door.

All that didn’t happen until after the second tour. Brannan was in a terrible place, she says—until she talked to Danna Hughes, founder of VVW. Danna had been through much of the exact same turmoil, decades ago, and had opened a center to help get Vietnam vets benefits and educate their spouses and communities about their condition. “What choice do I have?” Brannan asks about running her own organization. “This is the only reason I am well. People care when you tell them. They just don’t know. They want to help and they want to understand, so I just have to keep going and educating.”

1.) Brannan gets back to work Because she also helps thousands of other people—measured by website and social-media interactions—through Family of a Vet, a nonprofit created

This section contains factual and credible that the author describes Brannan’s capabilities in what she does in her line of work. It’s a factual claim that Brannan helps thousands of people by credible claims from the measures by websites and social media interactions though Family of Vet.

2.) “to help you find your way, find the information you need, and find a way not only to cope with life after combat…but to survive and thrive!”

This whole quote is a proposal claim of the words “to help you” and using the word find to show what the company’s motto is to the people. The biggest proposal claim that was used in the companies motto is “to survive and thrive” to get to the main purpose. By helping someone to find their way and not to feel regret after a tragic event is by prosper, and flourish.

3.) “Things were a little…off,” Caleb was edgy, distant, but he did not forget entire conversations minutes later, did not have to wait for a stable mental-health day and good moment between medication doses to be intimate with his wife, and then when he finally tried, pray to Christ for one of the times when it’s good sex, not one of the times when a car door slams outside and triggers him, or the emotion becomes so unbearable that he freezes, gets up, and walks wordlessly out the door.

This part is an illustrative claims where the author compared heaven and hell towards Caleb praying to Christ like he was in heaven when he was having a good make out sessions than hearing noises that would make him feel like he was in hell. It describes him like how he found his holy peace when he prays Christ than being stiff from abrupt noises that would send him to hell.

4.) “What choice do I have?” Brannan asks about running her own organization. “This is the only reason I am well. People care when you tell them. They just don’t know. They want to help and they want to understand, so I just have to keep going and educating.”

This whole section is what Brannan said based on her moral claims about what had happen after the second tour. The main question “What choice do I have?” stood out before the reasoning because it brought Brannan feeling cornered. The author puts the evaluation before the moral to explain why Brannan said those words because of the cause of the second tour which effected Brannan choices.

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PTSD Claims – Robofrog

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Robofrog

But here we’ve got lasagna, and salad with an array of dressing choices, and a store-bought frosted Bundt cake with chocolate chips in it!

– It is a factual claim that can be proven because there were witnesses to what was there.

There is no dining-room table—when they bought the house years ago, they thought they’d finish it up real nice like they did with another house, before the war, but nobody’s up for that now, so we all huddle around the coffee table in the living room.

– It is a causal claim. The cause is the war, and the effect is that there is not a dining room table.

– It is also a comparative claim because two different houses are being compared in the sentence.

Brannan and I make fun of Caleb for being three years older than us, so old, Caleb makes jokes that it does indeed feel like he and Brannan have been married for-ever.

– It is a factual claim. It presents the fact that Caleb is three years older than Brannan and the author.

– It is also an attributive claim where the author attributes a claim to Caleb.

At the front door, we all beam at each other in the warm way people do when they’re separating after a nice meal. Caleb is in such a good mood that Brannan asks if he’s up for putting Katie to bed so she can go lie down. Forty-five minutes later, he wakes her up screaming. Not two days after that, he tells her he’s leaving her. “I’m going to get it over with and do it so you don’t have to,” he says, because that’s just the way the scale goes that day, when he weighs the pain of being alone versus the pain of being a burden.

– The entire paragraph is illustrative claim. It illustrates the idea that Caleb can be fine one moment and not fine the next.

– The last sentence in the paragraph is a comparative claim because it is comparing two different kinds of pain.

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Claims—Student1512

Posted on October 6, 2024 by student1512

SECTION 11:

“It’s to help kids like that that Brannan and her volunteers put together an informational packet on secondary trauma for parents to give to teachers, explaining their battle-worthy idiosyncrasies and sensory-processing sensitivities.”

The quote would be a causal claim. Because there are kids who suffer from living around those with PTSD, Brannan and her volunteers made their informational packet. If there had not been those who were suffering, it is more than possible that the packet would not have been made. This highlights cause and effect.

“They’re common enough problems that the Department of Health and Human Services got in touch with Brannan about distributing the packet more widely.”

This quote would be an evaluative claim as the Department of Health and Human Services judged the characteristics of the packet and decided that the packet should be more widely spread. Furthermore, this claim would be evaluative as Evaluations can be supported by authority, which in this case would be the Department of Health and Human Services.

“Though Brannan hopes Katie will come out of childhood healthy, she still says, ‘She’s not a normal kid. She does things, and says things. She’s a grown-up in a six-year-old’s body in a lot of ways.’”

This quote would be an attributive claim as the author writes “she still says” as a means to distance himself an arms length from the claim, as not every claim can be verified. 

“She certainly looks like a normal kid when she comes down from her room dressed for tap class. In a black leotard, pink tights, and shiny black tap shoes, she looks sweet as pie.”

This quote would be an Illustrative claim. The author doesn’t just say, “she looks like a kid but isn’t mentally”, instead the author instead gives more to the reader to visualize. To realize the innocence of her youth and highlight the internal contrast due to her situation. In turn, the passage evokes sympathy from the reader. 

“‘One time, a bad guy in Iraq had a knife and my dad killed him,” she says, apropos of nothing.”

This quote would be an attributive claim, as the author is referencing a story Katie had allegedly told. What makes this quote an attributive claim is that in referencing Katie’s story, he writes “she says” to put some distance between himself and the claim of the story Katie told.

“Brannan is stern but impeccably patient. She doesn’t know why Katie adapted this story about confiscating a weapon from an insurgent into a story about bloodshed, but she isn’t too happy about it. That kind of small talk recently ruined a birthday party one of her classmates was having at Chick-fil-A. Brannan and Katie have a talk, again, about inappropriate conversation.”

This whole passage would be an Evaluative claim. The claim adheres to the judgment of characteristics of a situation. This is shown through the author stating that Brannan is stern but patient. The passage continues with the evaluative claims as further statements indicate judgment of the situation. Not only this but the evaluations are arguable and evidence based. 

A part of the passage would also constitute a Causal claim, “That kind of small talk recently ruined a birthday party one of her classmates was having at Chick-fil-A.” This would be causal as Katie stories are causing something negative to happen, in this case the ruining of a birthday party. Cause and effect.

“Katie is sorry—God, is she sorry, you can see it in her face and guilty shoulders, but she seems to feel like she can’t help it. Sometimes, at bedtime, she asks her mom to pray with her that her teacher will like her. Once, she asked Brannan to take her to a hypnotist, so he could use his powers to turn her into a good girl.”

This passage would be an illustrative claim, as the author is using a more poetry-esk type of language to describe the sorrow Katie feels from the helplessness of her situation. The three sentences in the passage all aim to derive sympathy from the readers.

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Claims – unicorn45678

Posted on October 6, 2024 by unicorn45678

Section 11

  1. “It’s to help kids like that that Brannan and her volunteers put together an informational packet on secondary trauma for parents to give to teachers, explaining their battle-worthy idiosyncrasies and sensory-processing sensitivities. They’re common enough problems that the Department of Health and Human Services got in touch with Brannan about distributing the packet more widely.”

This quote makes a Factual Claim, it talks about real events that actually happened. In the quote it says that Brannan and her volunteers created a packet to help parents explain secondary trauma to teachers, and also that the Department of Health and Human services got in touch with Brannan about giving the packets out more widely. The claim describes real events and actions and not just opinions or arguments.

2. “Brannan gave the packet to Katie’s kindergarten teacher, but thinks the teacher just saw it as an excuse for bad behavior. Last fall, she switched Katie to a different school, where she hopes, more understanding will lead to less anxiety. Though Brannan hopes Katie will come out of childhood healthy, she still says, “She’s not a normal kid. She does things and says things. She’s a grown-up in a six-year-old’s body in a lot of ways.”

This quote makes a value claim because it shares Brannan personal thoughts and opinions. She feels that the teacher misunderstood the reason for the packets, thinking that it’s an excuse for Kaite’s behavior. Brannan also describes Kaite as “not a normal kid” and also compares her to a grown up. These are Brannan personal perspective and feelings, not just facts.

3. “Katie Vines.” Brannan is stern but impeccably patient. She doesn’t know why Katie adapted this story about confiscating a weapon from an insurgent into a story about bloodshed, but she isn’t too happy about it. That kind of small talk recently ruined a birthday party one of her classmates was having at Chick-fil-A. Brannan and Katie have a talk, again, about inappropriate conversation. Katie is sorry—God, is she sorry, you can see it in her face and guilty shoulders, but she seems to feel like she can’t help it. Sometimes, at bedtime, she asks her mom to pray with her that her teacher will like her. Once, she asked Brannan to take her to a hypnotist, so he could use his powers to turn her into a good girl.”

This quote also makes a value claim, as well as the previous quote, because it reflects Branna personal thoughts and feelings about Katies actions. Brannan is upset with Kaite because she told a story about violence which ruined her friend’s birthday party. It also shows how Katie feels about this situation as well, Kaite feels bad and wants to change, like how she asked to see a hypnotist to turn her into a good girl.

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PTSD Claims – ChefRat

Posted on October 6, 2024 by ChefRat

Section 4.

“The result of a malfunctioning nervous system that fails to normalize after trauma and instead perpetrates memories and misfires life-or-death stress for no practical reason, it comes in a couple of varieties, various complexities”

  • Definitional Claim – Clarifications are made about how PTSD can occur with or without a trigger, and the repercussions of a PTSD attack.
  • Casual Claim – In the passage it’s mentioned that the nervous system “misfires life-or-death stress for no practical reason,” implying that in the usual case, there is an outside trigger usually necessary. So NO trigger is necessary for an attack to occur.

“Has causes ranging from one lightning-fast event to drawn-out terrors or patterns of abuse —in soldiers, the incidence of PTSD goes up with the number of tours and amount of combat experienced.“

  • Casual Claim – Incidence or occurrence of PTSD is said to increase with the cause of higher tours or total combat experienced.
  • Quantitative Claim – We are evaluating that this this likelihood of PTSD is to increase with a numerical value of hours/time experienced on tour.

“As with most psychiatric diagnoses, there are no measurable objective biological characteristics to identify it. Doctors have to go on hunches and symptomology rather than definitive evidence.”

  • Factual Claim – A lack of biological measurements to read what causes PTSD, verified through research is a undeniable statement made from the author to the audience.
  • Evaluative Claim – Diagnoses are made, and of course are subject to personal judgement since there are no biological measurements to rely on.
  • Categorical Claim – PTSD is put into the category of psychiatric diagnoses, the fact that biological measurements existence for this illness was checked at all puts it into that category.

“And the fact that the science hasn’t fully caught up with the suffering, that Caleb can’t point to something provably, biologically ruining his life, just makes him feel worse. It’s invalidating.“

  • Evaluative Claim – “Invalidating” is a judgement that put onto Caleb, albeit it seems clear how that would feel, the author makes it clear how without measurements to detect it, it feels less legitimate or recognizable.
  • Casual Claim – Its casually mentioned how with the lack of measurements, Caleb will feel invalidated and hence increase his emotional distress.

 “In one of them, when a mortar or grenade hit just behind him, he was thrown headfirst through a metal gate and into a courtyard. His buddies dragged him into a corner, where he was in and out of consciousness while the firefight continued“

  • Illustrative claim – This part vividly describes the scene of events. The strong visual scene that’s portrayed to the audience helps them grasp the severity of these explosions.

“When Caleb was finally screened for the severity of his TBI, Brannan says he got the second-worst score in the whole 18-county Gulf Coast VA system, which serves more than 50,000 veterans.”

  • Ethical/Moral Claim – “Finally Screened” – This small snippet shows an insight into how the author feels about the negligence of the VA to take this long to get tested.
    • Factual Claim – ” The severity of his TBI” – Its asserted that Caleb has TBI to a certain level, whether or not the screening occurred, it still existed and was factual.
    • Interpretative/Quantitative Claim – “which serves more than 50,000 veterans” – What we don’t know about all 50,000 veterans is what they did on tour, or if they were in combat. Caleb’s screening us still used in reference to 50,000 other veterans which is a measurement to help the audience to understand his level of severity.

 “If sympathy for Caleb is a little lacking, you can imagine what little understanding exists for Brannan.”

  • Comparative Claim – We can quantify which is “worse or better” for the level empathy given for Brannan and Caleb.
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PTSD Claims – Elongated Lobster

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Elongated lobster

Section 5- 1 hour

“Secondary traumatic stress has been documented in the spouses of veterans with PTSD from Vietnam. And the spouses of Israeli veterans with PTSD, and Dutch veterans with PTSD”

This is a factual claim that is stating as a fact that secondary traumatic stress has been recorded in the spouses of veterans for almost 90 years, long before PTSD was officially classified as a mental disorder and began to be diagnosed.

“In one study, the incidence of secondary trauma in wives of Croatian war vets with PTSD was 30 percent. In another study there, it was 39 percent”

This is an attributive claim as well as a numerical claim. The attributive claim part comes into play with the phrasing “In one study” and “In another study”; however, this is baseless in terms of being an attributive claim as it simple states that one study says this and another study says this without listing or naming exactly what the study was, or where the study was from. The fact that these studies are nameless negates any weight and credibility that comes with naming a specific study. As far as the numerical claim, this does a fine job at listing what exactly the numerical value is, as well as what the numbers mean. Overall, this claim is fine, but it needs to be strengthened by naming the studies’ sources so that the studies can hold some credibility.

“‘Trauma is really not something that  happens to an individual,’ says Robert Motta, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor at Hofstra University who wrote a few of the many medical-journal articles about secondary trauma in Vietnam vets’ families. ‘Trauma is a contagious disease; it affects everyone that has close contact with a traumatized person’ in some form or another, to varying degrees and for different lengths of time”

This segment has a factual claim, an attributive claim, a credibility claim, a categorical claim, an analogy claim, and an evaluative claim. The factual claim is that trauma is something that affects everyone who comes into contact with someone who has been traumatized for some period of time. This claim is strengthened by the use of an attributive claim, which lists the author of the claim to be Robert Motta. To further add weight to who the author of this claim is, a credibility claim is used by saying exactly what Robert Motta’s qualifications are to be making such claims as though they are to be believed as facts. These qualifications being a clinical psychologist and psychology professor at Hofstra University as well as being someone who was written medical journal articles on this very subject, though specifically on the affects that secondary trauma has had on Vietnam vets’ families. The categorical claim is that trauma is a contagious disease that can even affect those who are simply in contact with those who have experienced trauma. The analogy claim is making a metaphor of sorts by saying that trauma is a contagious disease. Finally, the evaluative claim is that trauma can be characterized as a contagious disease, meaning that it can spread from one person to another through contact. I am not entirely sure if the “contagious disease” part is categorical, analogy, evaluative, or a combination of them, but this is my best interpretation of what it could be saying.

 “‘Everyone’ includes children. Which is something Brannan and Caleb lose not a little sleep over, since they’ve got a six-year-old in the house”

This includes a definition claim or categorical claim, a causal claim, and a factual claim. The definition claim is that when using the phrasing “everyone”, children fall within this definition. This is a slight definition claim, meaning that it only adds a specific group to the definition as a way to ensure the reading knows that this group is also included, perhaps as a way to emphasize the importance that this addition may have. The categorical claim is that children are categorized with the “everyone” mentioned. The causal claim is that Brannan and Caleb lose sleep worrying as a result of the fact that they have a six-year-old daughter that is exposed to the effects of PTSD. The factual claim is that Caleb and Brannan lose sleep over the fact that their child can be affected by the exposure to PTSD, especially at a young age.

“Katie Vines, the first time I meet her, is in trouble. Not that you’d know it to look at her, bounding up to the car, blondish bob flying as she sprints from her kindergarten class, nice round face like her daddy’s”

This section includes a factual claim, an evaluative claim, and an illustrative claim. The factual claim is that Katie Vines is in trouble in regards to her exposure to PTSD and having to experience secondary trauma. The evaluative claim is that you would not be able to tell that she is experiencing secondary trauma based on her outward appearance and disposition. This highlights the idea that the effects of PTSD are much more mental than they are physical, which is why it took so long for medical professionals to be able to diagnose it, and why they struggle to diagnose it still. The illustrative claim is describing the way that she looks and the fact that she is “bounding” up to the car and mentioning her “round face”, which typically signifies a non-threatening appearance as opposed to a sharper, more defined face. This invokes a sense of innocence in the reader before shifting the focus to the negative impact that secondary trauma has had on her behavior around others.

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Claims – student12121

Posted on October 6, 2024 by student12121

“Brannan sent Katie to the school therapist, once.”

This is both a factual and numerical claim. It states that Brannan sent Katie to a therapist which is a factual claim. Then it states how many times which is the numerical claim.

“She hasn’t seen any other therapist, or a therapist trained to deal with PTSD—Brannan knows what a difference that makes, since the volunteer therapist she tried briefly herself spent more time asking her to explain a ‘bad PTSD day’ than how Caleb’s symptoms were affecting the family.”

The first part of this sentence is a factual claim. The next section starting at “Brannan,” is an evaluative claim among other types. The author is claiming that a trained PTSD therapist is better. The other types of claim in that are an attributive claim and a credibility claim. The claim is attributed to Brannon and the author gives her credibility by citing her firsthand experiences in therapy.

“Certainly she seems better than some other PTSD vets’ kids Brannan knows, who scream and sob and rock back and forth at the sound of a single loud noise, or who try to commit suicide even before they’re out of middle school. Caleb spends enough time worrying that he’s messing up his kid without a doctor saying so.”

This quote starts with a comparative claim when the author states that Katie is better off than some other kids. The second sentence is an evaluative quote. There is a debate in the household over the best course of action and at the end of the evaluation they decide that a doctors diagnoses would do more harm than good.

“Brannan is a force of keeping her family together.”

The quote above is an evaluative claim. While the quote is not one I think many would argue with it is still arguable and not factual.

“She also works for the VA now, essentially, having been—after a good deal more complicated paperwork, visits, and assessments—enrolled in its new caregiver program, which can pay spouses or other family members of disabled vets who have to take care of them full time, in Brannan’s case $400 a week.”

Alternatively this quote is not arguable and is a verifiable fact, making this claim a factual one.

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PTSD Claim – KFury

Posted on October 6, 2024 by KFury205

Section 6:

1.

“Brannan’s not surprised she’s picked up overreacting and yelling—you don’t have to be at the Vines residence for too long to hear Caleb hollering from his room, where he sometimes hides for 18, 20 hours at a time, and certainly not if you’re there during his nightmares, which Katie is. “She mirrors…she just mirrors” her dad’s behavior, Brannan says. She can’t get Katie to stop picking at the sores on her legs, sores she digs into her own skin with anxious little fingers. She is not, according to Brannan, “a normal, carefree six-year-old.”

This is a Casual claim. It explains that the daughter Katie is mirroring her father’s actions, behaviors and habits after his time in the war. Simply putting it as is with the judgment that “oh if dad’s doing it then it must be ok” type of attitude that children have from time to time. Making Katie out as not a normal kid with one of her teachers commenting on it at the very of the quote.

2.

“Different studies of the children of American World War II, Korea, and Vietnam vets with PTSD have turned up different results: “45 percent” of kids in one small study “reported significant PTSD signs”; “83 percent reported elevated hostility scores.” Other studies have found a “higher rate of psychiatric treatment”; “more dysfunctional social and emotional behavior”; “difficulties in establishing and maintaining friendships.” The symptoms were similar to what those researchers had seen before, in perhaps the most analyzed and important population in the field of secondary traumatization: the children of Holocaust survivors.”

This is an Analogy Claim. The quote explains the numerous versions of trauma that the kids of Veterans may experience after their parent returns home and they claim how they were formed from the same basis of that trauma found in those of the survivors of the holocaust.

3.

“I asked the lead scientist, Marinus van IJzendoorn of Leiden University, what might account for other studies’ finding of secondary trauma in vets’ spouses or kids. He said he’s never analyzed those studies, and wonders if the results would hold up to a meta-analysis. But: “Suppose that there is a second-generation effect in veterans, there are a few differences that are quite significant” from children of Holocaust survivors that “might account for difference in coping mechanisms and resources.” 

This is a credibility claim. It gives the word of a researcher on whether secondary trauma is for the family members of vets. The researcher suspects there would be a second generational effect when it comes to vet parents influencing their families, though he explains that there would be differences in coping mechanisms.

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