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@MISC{Rnln_psychosocialinterventions,
author = {Cdr Rnln and Marten Meijer Phd and Lt Rnln and Rodney Vries Ba},
title = {PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The maintenance of combat readiness of an Armed Forces combat unit is determined by many factors, such as material readiness, training level, personnel readiness and combat exposure. From a study in the Royal Netherlands Navy among 8 seagoing units it appeared that personnel readiness is predicted by the quality and quantity of the personnel aboard and the time that they are aboard of the combat unit. Especially training and personnel readiness are the human factors in the maintenance of combat readiness. In 2004 an expert panel on the combat readiness of combat units in Iraq in showed that prevention of moral injuries by unit cohesion and leadership contributes to this combat readiness. From a systematic and systemic analysis of a deployment of Royal Netherlands Marine Corps battalions in United Nations Missions in Africa and Iraq it appears that psychosocial factors contribute to the maintenance of combat readiness as well, such as the assistance of military social workers before, during and after the deployment of the combat unit, including systemic interventions to the home front of the deployed personnel. From the analysis of the satisfaction with early interventions after deployments for these units and for a Landing Platform Dock, which deployed to Liberia in 2004, it appears that these interventions contribute to the maintenance of combat readiness as well. We conclude that human factors and systematic, systemic psychosocial interventions contribute the maintenance of combat readiness. Several recommendations are made to use these factors and interventions to maintain combat readiness.
Keyphrases
combat readiness personnel readiness psychosocial intervention combat unit human factor deployed personnel expert panel several recommendation royal netherlands navy early intervention psychosocial factor systemic intervention royal netherlands marine corp battalion military social worker unit cohesion many factor united nation mission material readiness leadership contributes combat exposure moral injury landing platform dock home front armed force combat unit systemic psychosocial intervention systemic analysis
