GETSmart: Guided Education and Training Via Smart Phones to Promote Resilience

There is no question that combat and domestic attacks can be stressful, and can have effects that last for months or even years, including reliving some of the events through nightmares or flashbacks, wanting to avoid anything that is a reminder of combat or domestic attack such as movies or the nightly news, or being jumpy and concerned about security. When someone has a lot of these symptoms they might be told they have PTSD, but even when that person doesn't have the full condition, just having some symptoms can affect their ability to function at the highest level at home, work, or in social settings, and puts you at greater risk for developing full PTSD. While someone who went through a significant stressful event might not need a long course of therapy if they don't have full PTSD, the investigator of this study thinks that working with them from a distance through their smart phone over time may decrease their symptoms, help them feel better, and prevent full PTSD. Thus the purpose of this study is to assess how a brief, relatively simple resiliency enhancement strategy, provided mostly through smart phones, affects someone with stress-related symptoms.