Recommended Reading

Forward Assist’s Top 20 Reading Suggestions:

1. Treating PTSD in Military Personnel: A Clinical Handbook by Bret Moore and Walter Penk.

2. The Body Keeps The Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Dr Bessel van der Kolk.

3. Struggle Well: Thriving in the Aftermath of Trauma by Ken Falke and Josh Goldberg.

4. Stopping Military Suicides: Veteran Voices to Help Prevent Deaths by Kate Hendricks Thomas and Sarah Plummer Taylor.

5. Invisible Veterans: What Happens When Military Women Become Civilians Again by Carrie Alford, Kate Thomas, Kylene Hunter.

6.  Warrior Soldier Brigand: Institutional Abuse within the Australian Defence Force by Ben Wadham & James Connor.

7. Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence by Megan MacKenzie.

8. After War: Healing The Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers by Nancy Sherman.

9. Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming Reprint by Jonathan Shay and John McCain.

10. Posttraumatic Growth: Positive Changes in the Aftermath of Crisis by Richard G. Tedeschi, Crystal L. Park, Lawrence G. Calhoun.

11. A path through the Jungle: A Psychological Health and Wellbeing Programme to Develop Robustness and Resilience by Steve Peters.

12. Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the US Army by Kayla Williams.

13. Women in the Line of Fire: What You Should Know About Women in the Military by Erin Solaro.

14. Resilient Warriors (The Resilience Trilogy) by Robert F. Dees.

15. Navigating Chaos: How To Find Certainty In Uncertain Situations by Jeff Boss.

16. The Boy Crisis : Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It by Farrell & Gray

17. For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice by Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran.

18. Amongst the Marines: The Untold Story by Steven Preece.

19. A Practical Guide to Military Claims by Ahmed Al - Nahhas.

20. NATO, Gender and the Military: Women Organising from Within by Katherine A.M Wright, Matthew Hurley and Jesus Ignacio Gil Ruiz.