359 Search Results for Veterans Mental Health Services
Therefore, one cannot conclude whether a trauma-centered, or present-centered approach is better for the treatment of substance abuse using group therapy.
Implications for Social Work
Studies regarding group therapy in veterans with substance abus Continue Reading...
Trauma is considered as 'Mental Agony', distress due to problems internal or personal to the patient's/victim's, undergone by a person during a given period. Even physical or mental distress undergone can also be considered as Trauma.. Trauma means ' Continue Reading...
The connection between combat experience and mental health has been extensively researched, and the literature is clear and consistent: veterans are a critically underserved population. A 2014 Rand study revealed a “woeful lack of understanding Continue Reading...
Va App
DESCRIPTION OF APP
PATIENT
Veteran Appointment Request (VAR)
Permits patients to solicit mental healthcare and primary care services at veteran affairs centers where they are already care recipients, in addition to scheduling and cancelin Continue Reading...
Home Care for Veterans
Needs Analysis
Training Goals and Specific Instructional Objectives
Location, Attendees, Time
Methods and Media
Training Evaluation Methods
Sample Lesson Plan
Home Care for Veterans
Home care for veterans is a much need Continue Reading...
1. Veteran Health Needs
Returning veterans and their families need early identification and treatment, as well as continuity of care. Early identification of mental health issues is critical, but needs to take place within a veterans’ healthcar Continue Reading...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Service DogsIn basic terms, PTSD could, according to the National Institute of Mental Health NIMH (2019), be conceptualized as a disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, Continue Reading...
Krumboltzs Social Learning Theory: Implications for DisabilityKrumboltzs (1979) Social Learning Theory is based upon the work of Alfred Bandura whose famous Bobo doll experiments suggested that human beings primarily learn by observing and modeling o Continue Reading...
Healthcare Reform
Reform and Electronic Medical Records
An Interview with Bernie Saunders
"Imagine a world where everything important about a patient is known to the physician the first time that patient presents," says Andrew Rubin, vice presiden Continue Reading...
Health Administration
The purpose of this study is to show that there are many reasons why nurses leave their profession, but that financial reasons often rank very high on their list of concerns. Managed care issues and job dissatisfaction also pla Continue Reading...
com). A certain amount of errors is to be expected, but there should not be so many that it demonstrates a certain level of skewedness about the model in its entirety. Thus, if the NHI model is the one which is selected, then it needs to be tested ag Continue Reading...
Of primary concern are the 7% who are not enrolled in the VHA but qualify for coverage, the 10% living in poverty, the 7% without any health coverage, and the 0.2% who suffer from compensable PTSD and have undiagnosed hypertension. Outreach programs Continue Reading...
, 2011, pp. 263). In implementing something as simple as phone-based CBT with the veterans in the research project at hand, an overall improvement in mental health and well-being could be achieved through relatively few treatments as research has sho Continue Reading...
Ethical Dilemma in a Department of Veterans Affairs Tertiary Healthcare Facility
Selection of the environment.
Selected environment. The environment for the proposed study will be a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center (hereinafter a Continue Reading...
Federal Role in Healthcare
There are two very entrenched camps in the universal health care debate as well as regarding what the federal role in healthcare should be. It is clear that the private and employer-based system is not serving the American Continue Reading...
Community Health Statistics for Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Description of Caddo Parish, Louisiana
With about a quarter of a million residents, Caddo Parish, Louisiana is a fairly older community with almost two-thirds of its population aged 25 years o Continue Reading...
Suicide Risk Management at Veterans Affairs
Suicide Risk Management Issue U.S. Department Veterans Affairs Hospital
Suicide prevention is a major national management issue in Veterans Affairs centers with a system wide suicide prevention program in Continue Reading...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Combat Veterans With Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Although not limited to veterans, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) may be the single most significant mental health risk to veterans, particularly to those vet Continue Reading...
VA Ambulatory Care
When it comes to the job and duty of the Veteran Affairs (VA) Administration, there are many forms and types of care that commonly come up and that are discussed or debated. Just one of those, and perhaps one of the less commonly Continue Reading...
careers, many social workers will encounter individuals who are veterans of active duty military service. Like other client populations, veterans may experience issues with their day-to-day living requirements that require assistance, but these indi Continue Reading...
Advocating for Social Change: Techniques and Tools
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), on average, about 20 veterans commit suicide every day (Suicide among veterans, 2016). The transition from active military service to civili Continue Reading...
veterans leaving the military. Specifically, it will attempt to solve some of the problems veterans being discharged from the military are facing. Veterans returning from the war in Iraq face a variety of problems and issues, and many of them are no Continue Reading...
Problem and Solutions at the Veterans Health Administration
The chances are good that most Americans have either received health care services from the Department of Veterans Affairs’s (VA’s) Veterans Health Administration (VHA) directly Continue Reading...
Part 1– Case Analysis: Traumatization of Combat Veterans
Today, despite ongoing efforts by the health care community and policymakers to reverse the ugly trend, dozens of combat veterans take their own lives every day, and many of these victims Continue Reading...
Findings showed that 95% of the respondents' overall health status was slightly higher compared to that of the general U.S. population of the same age and sex. Factors identified with the favorable health status were male gender, married state, high Continue Reading...
VA & Homeless Vets
There is not a shortage of public issues that tend to pull at the heartstrings of many people. Whether it be poverty, abuse or neglect of children or people being homeless or otherwise desperate, it would seem that there is no Continue Reading...
therapy in helping veterans to overcome the challenges that they are facing the most notable include: exposure therapy and cognitive restructuring. To determine the effectiveness of these approaches we will be conducting a literature review on: the Continue Reading...
The organization being analyzed is the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), which is the largest integrated healthcare system in the U.S. VHA is a component of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and it is led by the Under Secretary of Veterans Continue Reading...
Eras in Human Services
The Industrial Revolution created tremendous wealth for certain segments of the population -- but also tremendous poverty. The expansion of the nation's urban population, particularly its urban poor, created the need for more Continue Reading...
School Health Education
HEALTH THROUGH EDUCATION
Comprehensive School Health Education
Kolbe's Expectations
Dr. Lloyd Kolbe lines up the expectations of a school health education. These are: increased understanding about the science of individual Continue Reading...
Accounting Fundamentals for Healthcare Management
This paper examines governmental and nonprofit accounting and discusses how it differs from commercial accounting. In the accounting field, there may not always be a clear distinction between the thr Continue Reading...
Creating Diversity
Elder Veterans and Health Care Services
The focus of my dissertation is toward the aged American population, particularly the elderly veterans. I will be considering the type and quality of care they receive for the remainder of th Continue Reading...
Best Practices in the Management of Congestive Heart Failure
In recent years, diagnostic testing and treatments for cardiovascular diseases have improved survival rates and the quality of life for many patients, with the sole exception of congestive Continue Reading...
Problems in Local Government: Ending Veteran Homelessness in Tulsa, OklahomaOnce widely known as the Oil Capital of the World, Tulsa is still a cosmopolitan city that is famous for its historic art deco that eschews the cow town image that characteri Continue Reading...
Communications Project Portfolio for a Veterans Day Stand Down
During the Vietnam war, a stand down command meant that troops were allowed a period of rest following offensive hostilities. More recently, the stand down command has been applied to an Continue Reading...