The transition from military to civilian life includes a multitude of challenges for service members and their significant others. This transfer from one context to another can include, but is not limited to, a need for an identity shift, cultivation of an alternate mind-set, social reorientation, a search for employment, grief and sadness due to the loss of camaraderie, and/or experiences of alienation and estrangement from civilian society. Although the social sciences dominate this research field and dub it ‘transition,’ the ambiguity of the process can be further advanced through pastoral psychology. This article rethinks and reinterprets qualitative data to develop a pastoral psychological understanding of veterans through Capps and Carlin’s lens of living in limbo. This pastoral psychological construct embraces the ambiguity of the transition to civilian life and addresses it as a potentially complex and acute limbo situation. This construct can resonate with both veterans and significant others while also assisting pastors in providing care and counseling.

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重温生活在 Limbo 以说明从军事生活过渡到平民生活的田园心理理解

从军事生活过渡到平民生活包括对服务人员及其重要他人的众多挑战。这种从一种情境到另一种情境的转移可能包括但不限于身份转变的需要、另类心态的培养、社会重新定位、寻找工作、因失去友情而感到悲伤和悲伤，以及/或与平民社会疏远和疏远的经历。尽管社会科学主导了这一研究领域并将其称为“转型”，但该过程的模糊性可以通过田园心理学进一步推进。本文重新思考并重新解释定性数据，以通过卡普斯和卡林的生活在地狱中的镜头来发展对退伍军人的田园心理理解。这种田园心理结构包含了向平民生活过渡的模糊性，并将其作为一种潜在的复杂和严重的不确定情况来处理。这种结构可以与退伍军人和重要的其他人产生共鸣，同时也可以帮助牧师提供护理和咨询。