Who Cares? Part I: Veterans Denied Access to Top PTSD Treatments MARK C. RUSSELL, PH.D., ABPP Retired U.S. Navy Commander, Military Clinical Psychologist Who cares? Or more appropriately, does the ruling elite and national media honestly give a damn about whether the warrior class receives the highest quality of treatment for war stress...

  The Compulsion to Repeat the Trauma Re-enactment, Revictimization, and Masochism Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD* During the formative years of contemporary psychiatry much attention was paid to the continuing role of past traumatic experiences ...

    WASHINGTON, DC—In March 2008, when federal officials were quoting a wide range of numbers when citing the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a book was published that calculated an estimated total price tag that included the cost of OEF/OIF veterans’ healthcare and disability...

Study Background, Purpose, and Approach The long and frequent deployments of U.S. armed forces associated with Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), combined with the other consequences of combat, such as exposure to trauma, have tested the resilience and coping skills of U.S. military service members and their...

  This update of the Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Post-Traumatic Stress was developed under the auspices of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and the Department of Defense (DoD), pursuant to directives from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). VHA and DoD define clinical practice guidelines as:   This 2010 VA/DoD...