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Evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309466601
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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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.

Suicide Prevention Among Veterans

Author : Ramya Sundararaman
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437939651
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Suicide Prevention Among Veterans written by Ramya Sundararaman and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Numerous news stories have documented suicides among servicemembers and vets returning from Iraqi and Afghanistan. The VA has carried out a number of suicide prevention initiatives, incl.: establishing a national suicide prevention hotline for vets, conducting awareness events at VA med. centers, and screening and assessing vets for suicide risk. Contents of this report: Intro.; Data Systems for Tracking Suicide; Suicide in the U.S. General Pop¿n.: Incidence of Suicide; Risk and Protective Factors; Suicide Among Vets: Incidence of Suicide; Risk and Protective Factors; Effects of PTSD, TBI, and Depression on Suicide Risk; VA¿s Suicide Prevention Efforts: Mental Health; Strategic Plan; Suicide Awareness; Screening; Suicide Prevention Hotline. Table.

Reducing Suicide

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309169437
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reducing Suicide written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, about 30,000 people die by suicide in the U.S., and some 650,000 receive emergency treatment after a suicide attempt. Often, those most at risk are the least able to access professional help. Reducing Suicide provides a blueprint for addressing this tragic and costly problem: how we can build an appropriate infrastructure, conduct needed research, and improve our ability to recognize suicide risk and effectively intervene. Rich in data, the book also strikes an intensely personal chord, featuring compelling quotes about people's experience with suicide. The book explores the factors that raise a person's risk of suicide: psychological and biological factors including substance abuse, the link between childhood trauma and later suicide, and the impact of family life, economic status, religion, and other social and cultural conditions. The authors review the effectiveness of existing interventions, including mental health practitioners' ability to assess suicide risk among patients. They present lessons learned from the Air Force suicide prevention program and other prevention initiatives. And they identify barriers to effective research and treatment. This new volume will be of special interest to policy makers, administrators, researchers, practitioners, and journalists working in the field of mental health.

Mental Health and Suicide Among Veterans

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981407071
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Mental Health and Suicide Among Veterans written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental health and suicide among veterans : hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, November 19, 2014.

The Truth about Veterans' Suicides

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth about Veterans' Suicides written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Why People Die by Suicide

Author : Thomas Joiner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970616
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Why People Die by Suicide written by Thomas Joiner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: Why? Written by a clinical psychologist whose own life has been touched by suicide, this book offers the clearest account ever given of why some people choose to die. Drawing on extensive clinical and epidemiological evidence, as well as personal experience, Thomas Joiner brings a comprehensive understanding to seemingly incomprehensible behavior. Among the many people who have considered, attempted, or died by suicide, he finds three factors that mark those most at risk of death: the feeling of being a burden on loved ones; the sense of isolation; and, chillingly, the learned ability to hurt oneself. Joiner tests his theory against diverse facts taken from clinical anecdotes, history, literature, popular culture, anthropology, epidemiology, genetics, and neurobiology--facts about suicide rates among men and women; white and African-American men; anorexics, athletes, prostitutes, and physicians; members of cults, sports fans, and citizens of nations in crisis. The result is the most coherent and persuasive explanation ever given of why and how people overcome life's strongest instinct, self-preservation. Joiner's is a work that makes sense of the bewildering array of statistics and stories surrounding suicidal behavior; at the same time, it offers insight, guidance, and essential information to clinicians, scientists, and health practitioners, and to anyone whose life has been affected by suicide.

Mental Health and Suicide Among Veterans :.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Mental Health and Suicide Among Veterans :. written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stopping Suicides

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stopping Suicides written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stopping Military Suicides

Author : Kate Hendricks Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440875081
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Stopping Military Suicides written by Kate Hendricks Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending illustrative narratives from veterans with cutting-edge research, this book provides a model for a needed shift from treatment post-trauma to psychological training pre-trauma to prevent deep depression and resulting suicides. As suicides among members of the U.S. military and veterans continue at a rate higher than in the general population—nearly 20 each day—and their calls for help become louder, with three veterans waiting for treatment outside Veterans Administration hospitals in 2019 committing suicide, authors and former U.S. Marines Kate Hendricks Thomas and Sarah Plummer Taylor present a call for a new approach to help halt the needless deaths. Thomas, now a researcher and assistant professor of public health, and Plummer Taylor, now a social worker and adjunct professor, detail a plan to establish preventative training for mental fitness that will help psychologically "vaccinate" service members against depression and PTSD, the most common precursors to suicidal thoughts. Thomas and Plummer Taylor detail their mental fitness training program to shift from post-trauma treatment to pre-trauma prevention. Each topic addressed is illustrated with stories from veterans. Part of the solution, Thomas and Plummer Taylor explain, is to present prevention as something for all service members and as a positive, strength-building, challenging activity for champions, as opposed to a post-trauma treatment only for "weak and broken" warriors.

Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide

Author : Bruce Bongar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190679492
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide written by Bruce Bongar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past decade, suicidal behavior in military and veteran populations has been a constant feature in the news and in the media, with suicide rates among active duty American military personnel reaching their highest level in almost three decades. Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide reviews the most advanced scientific understanding of the phenomenon of active duty and veteran suicide, while providing a useful, hands-on clinical guide for those working with this population. This comprehensive Handbook covers all relevant topics and current research in suicide in military and veteran populations, including links between suicide and PTSD, the stigma of mental health treatment in the military, screening for firearms access in military and veteran populations, "subintentioned" suicide (e.g. reckless driving and other such "accidental" deaths), women in combat, and working with families. Chapters also cover suicide risk assessment, ethical issues in treating suicidal patients, evidence-based treatments for PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and managing suicide in older veterans. Significant issues that may arise in assessing and treating military and veteran populations who are at risk for suicide are presented and discussed with evidence-based and practical recommendations. This Handbook will benefit researchers, policy makers, and clinicians who work with active duty military and veteran populations.

Combating the Crisis

Author : Committee on Veterans' Affairs U S Hou
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781984954114
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book Combating the Crisis written by Committee on Veterans' Affairs U S Hou and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, IAVA [Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America] launched the Campaign to Combat Suicide, a result of our members continually identifying mental health and suicide as the number-one issue facing post-9/11 vets. This campaign centers around the principle that timely access to high-quality mental health care is critical in the fight to combat suicide. The signing of the Clay Hunt SAV Act into law was an important first step. We thank Richard and Susan Sulky for courageously inspiring us all to do the right thing, Congress for passing this legislation, and the VA for their commitment to fully implement the law. In IAVA's annual member survey, over 80 percent of members with a mental health injury reported seeking care. This is an increase from our last survey. They continue to emphasize the role of the family and friends with over 75 percent who reported having a loved one suggest they seek help and, as a result, getting that help. Research shows early intervention and timely access to mental health care are key to improving quality of life, promoting recovery, obviating long-term health consequences, and minimizing the disabling effects of mental illness and the risk of suicide. In recent years, VA's mental health programs and suicide prevention efforts have been both praised and criticized. Outside sources have described the scope, depth and breadth of VA's multivariant mental health approaches as superior to care in the private sector. Additionally, data shows that VA users have a lower suicide rate than veterans not using the VA Health Care System.

Service Should Not Lead to Suicide

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Service Should Not Lead to Suicide written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Military Mental Health Care

Author : Cheryl Lawhorne-Scott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442220945
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Military Mental Health Care written by Cheryl Lawhorne-Scott and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often American veterans return from combat and spiral into depression, anger and loneliness they can neither share nor tackle on their own. Military Mental Health Care: A Guide for Service Members, Veterans, Families, and Community seeks to aid our troubled, returning forces by dissecting the numerous mental health problems they face upon arriving stateside. Don Philpott and Cheryl Lawhorne-Scott, co-authors with Janelle Hill of the highly successful Wounded Warrior Handbook, detail not only each issue’s symptoms, but also discuss what treatments are available, and the best ways for veterans to access those treatments while readjusting to civilian life. In addition, they connect and explain many alarming trends, such as joblessness, poverty and addiction, appearing in our nation’s veteran population on a broader scale. PTSD and struggles with anxiety affect far more than veterans themselves, as sobering phenomena like homelessness, suicide, domestic violence and divorce too often become realities for those returning from war. Military Mental Health Care is both a resource for struggling veterans and a useful tool for their loved ones, or anyone looking for ways to support the veterans in their lives.

Veteran Suicide

Author : Robert M. Bossarte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875532110
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Veteran Suicide written by Robert M. Bossarte and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran Suicide: A Public Health Imperative educates readers on the critical issue of veteran suicide that has become a national imperative. Eighteen veterans kill themselves daily. An average of one active-duty GI commits suicide every 1.1 days. More GIs deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan will die from suicide than from combat. These troubling facts are undeniable. Published with assistance from the Veterans Administration, this collection of papers offers peer reviewed research from the leading experts from public health, clinical, and scientific communities. Some of the topics include: * Surveillance of Suicide and Suicide Attempts Among Veterans * Suicide Prevention for Veterans and Active Duty Personnel * Preventing Suicide by Preventing Lethal Injury * Estimating the Risk of Suicide Among US Veterans: * Suicide Prevention Is a Winnable Battle * Facilitating Treatment Engagement During High-Risk Transition Periods "The research represented by the collection of manuscripts included in this volume is an important step towards addressing the national problem of suicide and a reminder that even one death by suicide is too many." Janet Kemp, RN, Ph.D. -- VA National Mental Health Program Director, Suicide Prevention and Community Engagement

Suicide Among Veterans and Other Americans 2001-2014

Author : Department of Veterans Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781457863677
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Suicide Among Veterans and Other Americans 2001-2014 written by Department of Veterans Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, suicide was the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. and rates of suicide in the U.S. general population are increasing. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has worked tirelessly to develop suicide prevention resources for every Veteran who is experiencing a mental health crisis. VA is committed to identifying and reaching all Veterans who may be at risk for suicide and continues to enhance programs designed to reduce risk among those who receive services from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). This report is unprecedented in its breadth and depth of information about the characteristics of suicide among Veterans. It contains the first comprehensive assessment of differences in rates of suicide among Veterans with and without use of VHA services and comparisons between Veterans and other Americans. Figures and tables. This is a print on demand report.

PTSD Research Quarterly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book PTSD Research Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Improving Care to Prevent Suicide Among People with Serious Mental Illness

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309486947
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Improving Care to Prevent Suicide Among People with Serious Mental Illness written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suicide prevention initiatives are part of much broader systems connected to activities such as the diagnosis of mental illness, the recognition of clinical risk, improving access to care, and coordinating with a broad range of outside agencies and entities around both prevention and public health efforts. Yet suicide is also an intensely personal issue that continues to be surrounded by stigma. On September 11-12, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in Washington, DC, to discuss preventing suicide among people with serious mental illness. The workshop was designed to illustrate and discuss what is known, what is currently being done, and what needs to be done to identify and reduce suicide risk. Improving Care to Prevent Suicide Among People with Serious Mental Illness summarizes presentations and discussions of the workshop.