Warfighter Advance: The ADVANCE 7-Day

Abstract

Abstract:The author describes her early acquaintance with Adlerian practice while studying for clinical practice as a U.S. Navy officer. She describes the impact on her by juxtaposing it to the heavily burdened medical model of therapy she found herself in as she completed studies. She also describes her experience of providing psychological care during military service, which led her, upon completion of duty assignment, to develop Warfighter Advance. The author describes the effort to create a non-medicine-oriented psychological support program to bring sufferers from military trauma back to their best selves. She portrays the program as an amalgam of her Adlerian upbringing, U.S. Navy core values, and undergraduate training in theater “to build a viable and life-saving alternative” to medicinal dependence for dealing with war trauma.