Summary Of Standing With Soldiers To The End

The article “Standing with Soldiers to the End” by Kate Jackson illustrates how social workers are working their way up to help veterans when they are in their last days of life. In this article it is explained how even though the veterans spent their whole lives in the military nobody took care of them and they were not given the special treatments they deserved when they were dying. However with the help of the VA, veterans association, there have been a lot of improvements. According to J. Scott Jansenn, who has a master degree in social work (MSW) and is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), the VA has referred veterans to hospice and palliative care in order to help the veterans in receiving treatment while they are at home
For example some conditions that veterans can come out of war with are PSTD, anxiety, depression, survival guilt, traumatic grief, resurfacing of troubling memories, anger over pain or annoy her illness caused by the war, and psychological disorders. However, the social workers will be able to help the veterans because they know the culture, and nature of the army work. Which is essential for social workers to be able to understand the situations they are going to work on. The veterans may decide not to talk about their military experiences but once again as we learned in class the social worker should make the patient feel safe and not be judgmental and they may feel comfortable enough to open up to the social worker. Other veterans do not want to undergo hospice care because they don't want to accept the fact that they are dying and social workers have to respect that. Overall, not only the veterans benefit from these programs, the social workers also benefit from this because they enjoy doing their job and because they love to help people and if the VA keeps making improvements in the urge to help veterans, then veterans would be in excellent