Download or read book Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Veteran Affairs Chaplain in the Veteran Affairs Medical Center Salem Virginia Bereavement Program in Providing Support to Grieving Souls written by Harold D. Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 2018-04-29 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 Exploring the Need for a Veteran specific Grief Program for the Robley Rex Veteran Affairs Medical Center VAMC written by Lauren Nicole Mindemann and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a pilot needs assessment undertaken for the Robley Rex Veteran Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) to explore whether or not there was a need for a veteran-specific grief program. The major three components of the study included: 1) a comprehensive literature review of veterans and grief; 2) development and implementation of a survey assessing need; and 3) recommendations to the medical center. More than 90% of veterans experienced the death of a close friend or relative and about one-quarter of them expressed interest in a veteran-specific grief program.

Download or read book Examining the Effectiveness of the Veterans Benefits Administration s Training Performance Management and Accountability written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee To Evaluate the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- The Veterans Health Administration -- The Veterans Health Administration's Mental Health Services -- Clinical management of mental health conditions at the Veterans Health Administration -- Methodology -- Department of Veteran's Affairs mental health services: need, usage, and access and barriers to care -- Dimensions of quality in mental health care -- Mental health workforce and facilities infrastructure -- Timely access to mental health care -- Patient-centered care and the veteran experience -- Effective mental health care -- Efficient mental health care -- Equitable mental health care -- Health technology for mental health care -- Quality management -- Findings, conclusions, and recommendations -- Appendices. Supporting the documentation for the survey -- Supporting documentation for the site visits: questionnaires and NVivo codes.

Download or read book Helping Those Left Behind written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hearing on Mental Health Care and Suicide Prevention for Veterans written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Improving Spiritual Care by Chaplains for Service Members who Witness Death written by Beth M. Echols and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This research studied the experience of military and Veteran Affairs chaplains who work with a spectrum of military veterans. The purpose was to better understand how chaplain training prepared or failed to equip spiritual care providers to minister to service members during and/or after the initial experience that they identified as traumatic. The researcher asked nine open-ended questions to encourage and facilitate reflective responses. After grouping responses with similar answers, the researcher coded the chaplains' responses to determine themes that would describe and somehow encompass the phenomenon of serving as a chaplain in a war theater. Throughout the study, the researcher was guided by the theology developed primarily by Paul Tillich. Enriching Tillich's understandings were the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ. Taken together, their writings and insights offered a spectrum of possibility that not only drew from the spiritual care training provider but also extended that training to the broad experience of service chaplains serving in war theaters"--Abstract.

Download or read book Adequacy of the VA Persian Gulf Registry and Uniform Case Assessment Protocol written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-04-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As mandated in Public Law 103-446, the Department of Veterns Affairs (VA) asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to review its Uniform Case Assessment Protocol (UCAP) for Persian Gulf veterans. The purpose of the program is to provide a systematic, comprehensive medical protocol for the diagnosis of health problems of Persian Gulf veterans. This report is the third in a series of studies by IOM reviewing the protocols used by the VA and the Department of Defense to diagnose the health complaints of Gulf veterans. The committee reviews and makes recommendations concerning the adequacy of the medical protocol and its implementation by the VA, as well as the VA's outreach and education efforts aimed at informing Persian Gulf veterans and their care providers of the purpose and availability of this program. In addition, the report contains as appendixes the findings and recommendations of the previous reports, as well as those of two related IOM reports on Health Consequences of Service During the Persian Gulf War.

Download or read book Review of Combat Stress in Women Veterans Receiving VA Health Care and Disability Benefits written by United States. Department of Veterans Affairs. Office of Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General conducted a review to assess the Department's capacity to address combat stress in women veterans. It assessed women veterans use of VA health care for traumatic brain injury (TBI), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other mental health conditions, and whether the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) properly adjudicated women veterans' disability claims for these conditions. It also assessed whether VBA developed and disseminated military sexual trauma (MST) training and reference materials and policies to claims processors and the feasibility of requiring MST training and testing as part of VBA's claims processor certification. The results show that, with variations in degree, female veterans generally were more likely to use VA health care. They were also more likely to continue using VA health care services, even years after separating from active military service, and to use it more frequently. VA generally diagnosed higher proportions of female veterans with mental health conditions after separation, but lower proportions were diagnosed with the specific mental health condition of PTSD and with TBI. These patterns corroborated our findings from data analyses and from review of claims files that higher proportions of female veterans generally were awarded disability for mental health conditions other than PTSD, and a higher proportion of men were generally awarded disability for PTSD and TBI. Data analyses of the study population indicated that VBA denied females more often for PTSD, and denied male veterans more often for a mental health condition other than PTSD, although the denial rates for male and female veterans for all mental health conditions were almost the same. The study did not find any evidence that claims processors applied VBA's current policies and procedures differently when evaluating male and female veterans' disability claims.

Download or read book VA Mental Health Care written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alleged Continuity of Care Issues and Questionable Death Salt Lake City VA Medical Center Salt Lake City Utah written by United States. Department of Veterans Affairs. Office of Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Continued Assessment of Delays in Va Medical Care and Preventable Veterans Deaths written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A continued assessment of delays in VA medical care and preventable veterans deaths : hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, Wednesday, April 9, 2014.

Download or read book Proposed Improvements in Veteran Administration Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Services written by Kyla A. Driver and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The U.S. government provides many health care benefits to veterans, both during and after they serve. Unfortunately, the benefits become a necessity for many veterans who return home because of the mental and physical trauma that they sustain during their time being active duty. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has created a healthcare system specifically for veterans that provides medical centers and outpatient clinics with a variety of services throughout the country. The trauma that veterans experience often requires them to have care that is specialized for them in areas like substance abuse and mental health. While they can receive care at VA locations, it is often not a choice for a veteran to travel the distance to that location or wait weeks or months for an appointment and are forced to get care in the civilian sector. Because of this, the VA has started to allow veterans to receive care at non-VA facilities and as a result, quality of care and specialization for veterans is very important. The services that are provided at those locations are reviewed for both availability and range of services for veterans. This thesis analyzes existing data on substance abuse treatment services and mental health services for both veterans and civilians in order to assess trends for services available and treatment options. Overall, treatment type availability has not changed since the Opioid Safety Initiative. VA facilities are not increasing their availability of alternative therapies, but telemedicine therapy has become more available nationwide. Veteran specific programs are slightly decreasing in non-VA mental health facilities unlike non-VA substance abuse facilities where the program availability is increasing. Increased access to alternative treatments can help medical institutions provide more diverse and better-quality treatment plans for veterans."--Abstract.

Download or read book Improving Care for Veterans Facing Illness and Death written by Hospice Foundation of America and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook to help clinicians and healthcare professionals improve care for veterans

Download or read book Evaluation of Suicide Prevention Program Implementation in Veterans Health Administration Facilities January June 2009 written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The VA Office of Inspector General, Office of Healthcare Inspections (OHI) completed an evaluation of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities implementation of suicide prevention programs in compliance with VHA requirements. VHA mental health (MH) officials estimate that there are approximately 1,600-1,800 suicides per year among veterans receiving care within VHA and as many as 6,400 per year among all veterans. OHI conducted this review at 24 VA medical facilities during Combined Assessment Program reviews performed across the country from January 1-June 30, 2009.

Download or read book Pentagon 9 11 written by Alfred Goldberg and published by Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi. This book was released on 2007-09-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.