The number of OIF/OEF veterans "seen for potential PTSD" at VA facilities through March 31, 2011, according to Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) at a U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs hearing July 14. Senator Murray is chairman of that committee. The title of the hearing? VA Mental Health Care: Closing the Gaps.
Welcome to this week's news and announcements. First up, our Speakers Bureau is off to Sioux Falls, South Dakota next week. On Wednesday and Thursday, Dr.
On Sunday, May 6, 2012, Greg Jaffe wrote an article in the Washington Post titled, Psychiatrists Seek New Name, and Less Stigma, for PTSD: Proposal Would Define PTSD as an Injury. This article sketches the current debate about whether the name posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) should be changed to posttraumatic stress injury—a change in which the word “disorder” would be replaced by “injury”. Infused partly by Army leadership, this call for change has stirred various questions including whether the name change would really reduce stigma and how it would impact the legitimacy of the condition in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and in health insurance and federal disability claims.
That's the number of chaplains in the Army. And about 700 chaplains and chaplain assistants are "mobilized or deployed for contingency operations’ support around the world," according to data cited in a February 2012 Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health article, Compassion Fatigue: What Is the Level Among Army Chaplains?