Download or read book Women Veterans Perceptions of Mental Health Outpatient Services written by Lindsay Williams and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Veterans are the largest growing population Veterans, yet have a significant mental health disparity, greater than both civilian women and Veteran men. This disparity continues in the mental health outpatient treatment options for women Veterans. Veteran Administration (VA) healthcare services may not be suited to their needs as women, and civilian services are not well suited to manage their needs as Veterans. Therefore, this dissertation study used constructivist Grounded Theory methods to explore the experiences of women Veterans when accessing mental health outpatient services, their decision-making process when make the choice to enter mental health service, and aspects of the experience that are important or meaningful to them. Twelve women Veterans revealed meaningful, personal stories on their experiences of trauma and their use of mental health outpatient services. While addressing each of these factors, what emerged from the data was a broader Grounded Theory Process model of how women Veterans process trauma, and the categories of Trauma, Transitions, Identity and Structure. Women Veterans who participated in the study used mental health outpatient services to assist in reestablishing identity after trauma and to propel forward in their lives. This research provides key insight into how women Veterans make healthcare related choices and process traumatic events, like military sexual trauma (MST). This has implications for research, practice, and policy to improve the provision of care for women Veterans.
Download or read book Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 4 million U.S. service members took part in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shortly after troops started returning from their deployments, some active-duty service members and veterans began experiencing mental health problems. Given the stressors associated with war, it is not surprising that some service members developed such mental health conditions as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance use disorder. Subsequent epidemiologic studies conducted on military and veteran populations that served in the operations in Afghanistan and Iraq provided scientific evidence that those who fought were in fact being diagnosed with mental illnesses and experiencing mental healthâ€"related outcomesâ€"in particular, suicideâ€"at a higher rate than the general population. This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the quality, capacity, and access to mental health care services for veterans who served in the Armed Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn. It includes an analysis of not only the quality and capacity of mental health care services within the Department of Veterans Affairs, but also barriers faced by patients in utilizing those services.
Download or read book Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 1.9 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001. Many service members and veterans face serious challenges in readjusting to normal life after returning home. This initial book presents findings on the most critical challenges, and lays out the blueprint for the second phase of the study to determine how best to meet the needs of returning troops and their families.
Download or read book Perceptions of Female Veterans written by Maxine Evelyn Hammer and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intersections between Mental Health and Law among Veterans written by Jack Tsai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by experts in the field, this book addresses the serious and increasingly public concern over the mental health of veterans after military deployment. It examines the intersection of criminal and civil legal issues with mental problems in the veteran population and describes various effective programs that have been developed to address these issues. It includes a wide range of useful topics examining the particular criminal justice problems faced by vets, such as sexual abuse and violence as well as the legal institutions that have been established to handle these problems, such as veterans courts, family courts, and the Veterans Justice Outreach program. The book also provides coverage of special groups such as women and homeless veterans. It is a concise but comprehensive view of this salient topic that is useful for students, practitioners, and policy makers.
Download or read book Department of Veterans Affairs Staff Perceptions of Homeless Women Veteran s Health Care written by Jessica Legge and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Interpersonal Trauma written by Marylene Cloitre and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now revised and expanded with 50% new content reflecting important clinical refinements, this manual presents a widely used evidence-based therapy approach for adult survivors of chronic trauma. Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR) Narrative Therapy helps clients to build crucial social and emotional resources for living in the present and to break the hold of traumatic memories. Highly clinician friendly, the book provides everything needed to implement STAIR--including 68 reproducible handouts and session plans--and explains the approach's theoretical and empirical bases. The large-size format facilitates photocopying; purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. First edition title: Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse: Psychotherapy for the Interrupted Life. New to This Edition *Reorganized, simplified sessions make implementation easier. *Additional session on emotion regulation, with a focus on body-based strategies. *Sessions on self-compassion and on intimacy and closeness in relationships. *Chapter on emerging applications, such as group and adolescent STAIR, and clinical contexts, such as primary care and telemental health. *Many new or revised handouts--now downloadable. *Updated for DSM-5 and ICD-11.
Download or read book Handbook of Psychosocial Interventions for Veterans and Service Members written by Nathan David Ainspan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Psychosocial Interventions for Veterans and Service Members is a "one stop" handbook for non-military clinicians working with service members, veterans, and their families.
Download or read book Military Veterans Perceptions of Civilian Mental Health Care Providers written by Nicholas Bradford Uram and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keywords: military veterans, Consensual Qualitative Research, therapeutic factors
Download or read book Homelessness Among U S Veterans written by Jack Tsai and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges facing military veterans who return to civilian life in the United States are persistent and well documented. But for all the political outcry and attempts to improve military members' readjustments, veterans of all service eras face formidable obstacles related to mental health, substance abuse, employment, and — most damningly — homelessness. Homelessness Among U.S. Veterans synthesizes the new glut of research on veteran homelessness — geographic trends, root causes, effective and ineffective interventions to mitigate it — in a format that provides a needed reference as this public health fight continues to be fought. Codifying the data and research from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) campaign to end veteran homelessness, psychologist Jack Tsai links disparate lines of research to produce an advanced and elegant resource on a defining social issue of our time.
Download or read book The Female Veteran Population written by Mark S. Russell and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Veterans Perceptions of Mental Health Services Offered in Rural Southern Minnesota written by Jamie Larsen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Veteran Psychiatry in the US written by Elspeth Cameron Ritchie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the unique psychiatric needs of active and former military personnel and offers clinical pearls for the optimal delivery of care for these individuals. Written by experts in military and veteran psychiatry, this book addresses the most common issues in military and veteran patients, including depression, traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, substance use disorder, homelessness, and suicidality. Chapters highlight the characteristics of veterans suffering from each disorder that requires special treatment, making it a valuable resource for both military and civilian clinicians. Veteran Psychiatry in the US is a valuable resource for all mental health clinicians working with or seeking to work with veterans, including psychiatrists, neurologists, primary care physicians, psychologists, counselors, social workers, nurses, residents, and all others.
Download or read book Factors Related to Utilization of Veterans Affairs VA Mental Healthcare Services by Female Veterans with Depression written by Lisa A. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depression ranks as the second highest service-connected disability for female veterans. In 2015, approximately 26,500 female veterans, representing 6.5% of all females with service-connected disabilities, received compensation for major depressive disorder (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2018). However, studies indicate that veterans, inclusive of female veterans, demonstrate low VA mental health services utilization rates for mental health problems, particularly depression (Gorman et al., 2016; Harpaz-Rotem et al, 2014; Miles et al., 2017). Davis et al. (2016) examined the use of mental health care services in 874 female veterans with depression and reported that 43.5% of the women did not receive adequate depression care. Evidence suggests that predisposing attitudes, caretaking, and employment, illness perceptions, alcohol use, and depression influences utilization of healthcare facilities. Based on the Andersen Healthcare Utilization Model, this study examined relationships between predisposing (attitudes, employment, caretaking), need factors (depression, illness perceptions, alcohol use) and utilization of mental healthcare services in 110 female veterans enrolled for care in an urban VA healthcare facility. Results indicated that the majority of the employed women (59%) reported employment barriers and the majority of women (55%) who were caring for either children or adults reported caretaking barriers to utilization of healthcare services. Overall, the women reported positive attitudes toward mental healthcare services, viewed depression as somewhat threatening rather than benign, and reported low alcohol intake. Based on the past twelve months, the majority of women (60%) had 1-8 appointments and 12% had 10 - 21 appointments. However, the majority of women (66%) had at least one "no-show" appointment within the past 12 months. Multivariate analyses indicated that depression and attitudes accounted for 10.9% of the variance in utilization, F = 6.089, p = .003. Average and high levels of depression moderated the relationship between attitudes and utilization, p = .02, R2 = .22.
Download or read book Military and Veteran Mental Health written by Laura Weiss Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative and comprehensive title is designed to enhance best clinical practices for all healthcare providers who care for military service personnel and veterans. The book is organized into four sections. The first section covers foundational information on the culture and context of health care for members of the US military and veteran population. The second section focuses on systems of care for mental health needs of military and veteran populations. The third section characterizes best practices as well as ethical issues in clinical care for mental health needs of members of the military and veterans. Guidance in relation to a wide range of clinical topics is provided, such as mood disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, combat and operational stress, military sexual assault, psychosis, and sleep disorders. The last section is intended to assist readers in reinforcing their learning through a set of clinical cases with accompanying questions for deeper consideration. An invaluable resource for all clinicians, allied health personnel, and administrators concerned with the mental health needs of service members and veterans, Military and Veteran Mental Health: A Comprehensive Guide is a gold-standard addition to the literature on military healthcare.
Download or read book Warrior Renew written by Lori S. Katz and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart
Download or read book Women s Mental Health An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America E Book written by Susan G. Kornstein and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest editor Drs. Susan G. Kornstein and Anita H. Clayton bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Women's Mental Health. Each year, one in five women in the U.S. experience a mental health condition. Many of these conditions affect more women than men or affect women in different ways. In this issue, top experts discuss new research findings in women's mental health, enabling readers to make informed, thoughtful clinical decisions. - Contains 16 practice-oriented topics including COVID and women's mental health; perinatal depression; menopause and mood; racial/ethnic disparities and women's mental health; reproductive rights and women's mental health; and more. - Provides in-depth clinical reviews of women's mental health, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. - Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
