The article reports that mental health professionals are volunteering one hour per week for one year to counsel veterans and their families as part of the Give an Hour program from the American Psychi...
Analysis: Mental health services for veterans and problems faced by the military medical system in dealing with troops with emotional problemsMELISSA BLOCK, MICHELE NORRIS
The U.S. Defense Department on Wednesday circulated a list of mental health resources available for veterans amid the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. Although the Defense Department did not mention Afghanistan by name, the information came as U.S. forces leave the country and the capital ...
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A grant from the Baxter International Foundation will help provide assessments, education, and a resource to veterans while teaching veteran family members and first responders how to identify and manage the mental an...
The mental health services of the Veterans Administration (VA) form an important component of the organized mental health care delivery system in the United States. The 140 VA organizations delivering mental health care represented 3 percent of all mental health organizations in the U.S. in 1986,...
Roughly one in four veterans surveyed said they had suicidal thoughts within the last year. “Mental health continues to be a critical concern for this population of post-9/11 injured warriors,” said Dr. Melanie Mousseau, vice president of program operations for Wounded Warrior Project. ...
摘要: EXECUTIVE ORDER IMPROVING ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR VETERANS, SERVICE MEMBERS, AND MILITARY FAMILIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order as follows: Section 1. Policy....
However, there is limited understanding of how veterans’ experiences and meaning systems shape their perceptions of barriers to VA mental health service use. In 2015, a participatory, mixed-methods project was initiated to elicit veteran-centered barriers to using mental healthcare services among a ...
Veterans and mental health care Take care of Veterans I believe that it is the best interest of veterans‚ whom have served the military in any capacity to be afforded not just medication‚ but also some form of counseling. Being a veteran myself I have experienced: over medic...
"Our veterans have served and sacrificed for our nation and deserve the very best care," said Kate Rubin, president of United Health Foundation. "We hope this study will focus attention on the opportunity that exists to better prepare our mental health workforce to meet the unique needs of ve...