Desperate shortages leave Ukraine ill-prepared for trauma of war
With Ukraine still trapped in a Soviet-era approach to mental health and psychiatric hospitals so under-funded that some have less ...
Tag: mental health
Mental Health Problems Surge in the Military: CRS
Mental health problems in the military are on the rise and pose a growing challenge to active duty forces, the ...
Funding for mental health research yielding results
Research advances in mental health and care provided for Soldiers is light years ahead of what it was during the ...
Soldiers recovering from traumatic brain injury test combat skills
Soldiers recovering from Traumatic Brain Injury had the chance to see if they were ready to get "back to the ...
US Army reviews mental health diagnoses
The US Army's inspector general is investigating whether psychiatrists threw out diagnoses of post-traumatic stress for soldiers to save money, ...
DOD, VA partnership key in treating brain trauma
The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments are using their partnered programs to identify and treat traumatic brain injury, representatives of ...
Technology to aid DoD mental health services
Imagine being a psychologist sitting across from your patient. Now imagine that patient is actually hundreds of miles away. The ...
Deployed docs discuss mental health, brain injury treatment
Among all the injuries servicemembers sustain during a combat deployment, the most common are concussions, post-traumatic stress and other difficult ...
Study focuses on mental health of force in Afghanistan
Soldiers say there's lower barriers and better access to behavioral health care in theater, even though for many there's been ...
Therapy dogs helping with more than PTSD, TBI
Launched just eight months ago, Veterans Moving Forward vows to provide service dogs, at no cost, to veterans with physical ...
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