The Department of Veterans Affairs recently announced it has expanded its mental health services to include professionals from two additional health care fields: marriage and family therapists and licensed mental health counselors.Professionals from the two fields will be included in the hiring of an ...
WASHINGTON --The Department of Veterans Affairs will offer urgent mental health care beginning this summer to thousands of former service members with less-than-honorable discharges, part of its expanded initiative to stem stubbornlyhigh rates of suicide. VA Secretary David Shulkinsaid Wednesday the ad...
It has been suggested that Vietnam veterans who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) avoid Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health services because their experiences in the military engendered a profound distrust of the Federal Government and its institutions. Data from a national survey...
VA Health Care: Spending for Mental Health Strategic Plan Initiatives Was Substantially Less Than Planned: GAO-07-66. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides mental health services to veterans with conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and subst... Ekstrand,Laurie,E....
This report examines current trends in specialized mental health care in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Over the period 1999 to 2002, inpatient bed-days declined steadily, and the number of outpatient visits increased. Outpatient pharmacy spending increased by nearly 19 percent per...
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GAO researchers said that, if VA wants more facilities to meet its PCMHI goals, the department should more formally track the staffing at these struggling facilities so that it can know when and how to provide support. “A full complement of mental health professionals is imperative for VA t...
Reports outcomes of an innovative and cost efficient training model for DoD and VA mental health clinicians to receive supervised training on an evidence-based PTSD therapy per the VA/DoD (2004) practice guidelines. A survey of 133 military mental health clinicians indicated 90% had not received ...
Some veterans using healthcare services at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), face multiple potential barriers to VA healthcare services, particularly mental healthcare [1, 2]. Previous research has examined the barriers faced by veterans obtaining needed VA mental healthcare services [3,4,...