Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Military and Veteran Populations Initial Assessment (2012) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
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Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) began in March 2003 as American-led coalition forces invaded Iraq, and it officially ended on August 31, 2010.
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, targeting treatment and rehabilitation of veterans. Since FY 2005, the VA has added more than 7,500 full-time mental health staff and has trained, through national training initiatives, more than 3,400 VA clinicians in two evidence-based therapies for the treatment of PTSD -- cognitive processing therapy (CPT)
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Information that the committee deemed important to collect included how many service members and veterans have been screened for and diagnosed with PTSD, what treatments (psychosocial, pharmacologic, and other) are they currently receiving, where do service members and veterans receive treatment (for example, primary care clinic, outpatient mental health clinic, specialized PTSD program, inpatient residential program)
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: In phase 2 of the study, the committee will analyze the data received in phase 1 specifically to determine the rates of success for each program or method; and an estimate of the number of members of the Armed Forces and veterans diagnosed by the DoD or the VA as having PTSD and the number of such veterans who have been successfully treated. In addition, the committee will focus on targeted interventions at Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort Campbell, Tennessee; and any other locations the committee deems necessary, including VA facilities.
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During its deliberations, the committee conducted numerous focused searches of peer-reviewed literature, government reports, and books, manuals, and documents relevant to PTSD. Although it is not a comprehensive literature review itself, this report constitutes a synthesis of evidence with the intent of highlighting PTSD prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation options that are or could be used in the DoD and the VA mental health care systems.
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Furthermore, the committee did not develop an exhaustive list of all of the available PTSD programs and services available through the DoD or the VA, although both the DoD and the VA were asked to provide information on their programs in the data requests discussed earlier. However, such a list for the DoD may be found in the recent RAND report Programs Addressing Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Among U.S.
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The chapter covers not only widely used evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacologic therapies but also the evidence supporting complementary and alternative therapies such as animal-assisted therapy, and emerging treatments, such as couple therapy and virtual reality exposure. Chapter 8 is a continuation of the treatment discussion but with a focus on the treatment and rehabilitation needs of service members and veterans who have both PTSD and comorbid medical and psychiatric conditions and psychosocial treatment needs.
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2007. Bringing the war back home: Mental health disorders among 103,788 US veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan seen at Department of Veterans Affairs facilities.
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