Helping Patients to Understand the Potential Impact of Disclosing Their Condition According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 43.8 million adults in America experience this type of condition each year. That’s one in five adults who share the effects of mental illness on their social lives. What’s more, 18.1 percent of adults live with anxiety disorders each year. These …
In today’s volatile world of mass shootings and terrorist attacks, more and more people are suffering from painful memories and negative mental images because of the constant trauma that’s occurring daily. In fact, up to 70 percent of veterans suffering with chronic pain who have been treated within the VA (US Veterans Administrations) may be struggling with PTSD (post traumatic …
Published by the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps Abstract Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disabling trauma and stress-related disorder that may occur after a person experiences a traumatic event, and evokes a combination of intrusion and avoidance symptoms, negative alterations in cognitions and mood, and alterations in arousal and reactivity. Accelerated resolution therapy (ART) is an emerging psychotherapy …
Article by Charles W. Hoge, MD and July Lies, MSc | Federal Practitioner Diagnostic discordance between posttraumatic stress disorder definitions, treatment dropout rates, comorbidities, and varying policy approaches leave VA and DoD clinicians with unique concerns in providing effective treatment for many postwar health problems. Read Article (PDF) PTSDArticle_Hoge_Lies_FederalPractitioner_April2015
The USF College of Nursing leads research on a novel technique to alleviate veterans’ symptoms of combat-related and military sexual trauma. By Saundra Amrhein On a recent spring morning, Artricia James-Heard walked into the office of a therapist trained in an innovative technique being studied by researchers at the University of South Florida. Upon entering, James-Heard, a Navy veteran who …
