TY - JOUR AU - Pilisuk, Marc AU - Mahr, Ines-Lena PY - 2015/06/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Psychology and the Prevention of War Trauma JF - Journal for Social Action in Counseling & Psychology JA - jsacp VL - 7 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.33043/JSACP.7.1.122-142 UR - https://openjournals.bsu.edu/jsacp/article/view/357 SP - 122-142 AB - The role of professional psychology in providing assistance to soldiers and veterans was highlighted by an issue of the American Psychologist devoted to a program for using positive psychology for resilience training. Shortcomings of that approach led to AP agreeing to publish another issue on alternative perspectives. This article reviewed for that issue but was not accepted by their reviewers. Since it is critical of the relation between the American Psychological Association and US military, readers deserve the opportunity to see what was rejected. Psychologists have an obligation to provide a full measure of options for addressing soldier distress including those that might encourage release from service. Psychologists also have an ethical obligation to question the rationale by a sponsoring organization, the armed services, for exposing the soldier recipients of psychological services to unwarranted risks of preventable wars. Application of positive psychology to resilience training in the current military system fails to meet these responsibilities. ER -