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 …
Linda Hurtado | Tampa Tribune Army Green Beret Brian Anderson came back from deployment in Afghanistan with images that haunted him. Visions of eight-hour fire fights and the death of two friends left him with odd and overwhelming symptoms. “I thought they were blood pressure issues, diabetes or something like that,” he said. “When I went in to be checked …
Command Post Tampa Blog | Tampa Bay Online There is a unique study about to launch at USF into whether a novel technique, called Accelerated Resolution Therapy, can treat PTSD in as little as one session. Read Article>>>
Inside USF Blog, Tampa Bay Online | Lindsay Peterson The U.S. Army has given USF’s nursing college $2.1 million to start a new therapy center for Iraq and Afghanistan war vets. To put the grant into perspective, it’s the equivalent of about $50 for each of the roughly 40,000 Florida vets now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in …
