2013 Annual Conference
November 5–8, 2013
Lexington, KY
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Aging Male Combat Veterans: Learning Coping Skills for PTSD through Audiology, Metagogy, and Musicology
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
The goal of this presentation is to illustrate the usefulness of educational philosophies through a qualitative pilot study to teach combat veterans coping skills for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression.
Target Audience
Educators, qualitative researchers, music educators, music therapists, audiologists, bio-neurologists, veteran advocates.
Learning Outcomes
Combat veterans have multiple conditions of hearing loss: (1) tinnitus (2) conductive hearing loss (3) sensorineural hearing loss, and (4) presbycusis. The presentation will illustrate the importance of first treating hearing loss, and second using the practice of metagogy to teach combat veterans specific music key scales and rhythms to avoid triggering war memories, and thereby reducing or eliminating PTSD and depression.
Session Description
Vietnam combat soldiers returned to the United States with endemic symptoms of behavioral, cognitive, psychological, emotional, biological, and sociological conditions. PTSD affects mental and physical health from young to older adulthood. Depression is common, and overlaps with chronic PTSD among combat veterans. Although some veterans have developed coping skills, others have not. Music is an integral part of daily living and a safe healing and communication channel for storytelling for combat veterans to manage emotions associated with war. Musical activities that can influence treatment results are developing auditory, cognition, and language processing, and increasing intelligence, visual acuity, and dexterity. Metagogy is the catalyst for veterans to learn specific music key scales and rhythms to avoid triggering war memories; this is critical for combat veterans who are clinically depressed and suicidal. Because music offers intrinsic and extrinsic values to elevate the individual holistically, combat veterans could gain from learning coping skills.
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No preference
Primary Presenter
Eleanor K. Covan, PhD, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Work Title
Gerontology Program Coordinator, Professor
Additional Presenters: Enters in Order.
Janet C. Bogus, AuD, PhD, Veterans Affairs
Work Title
Audiologist
Claudette M. Peterson, Ed.D., North Dakota State University
Work Title
Professor
Ms. Barbara Hutchison, PhD candidate, North Dakota State University, School of Education
Work Title
Doctoral Student