✍️ By Mark A. Stebnicki, Ph.D.
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Introduction: Why Military Cultural Competence Matters
With more service members, veterans, veterans with disabilities, and military families seeking mental health care, clinicians are increasingly encountering military-affiliated clients.Yet many therapists begin these therapeutic relationships without a full understanding of the military culture, deployment cycle issues, or the distinctive medical, physical, psychological, psychosocial, and vocational impact shaped by life in uniform.