362 Search Results for Veterans Mental Health Services
Military veterans are integral and critical element within American society. Not only have veterans provided critical defense services needed to help protect the country, they have also provided services to deal with internal crises within American. Continue Reading...
individual health history and examination of a 61-year-old American male Vietnam veteran, "Mr. John Veteran" using the SBAR approach. Mr. Veteran is married, with two adult children and three grandsons, aged 4, 7 and 12 years by his older daughter w Continue Reading...
Wounded Warrior Project OutlineOutlineI. Introductiona. Attention-getter: In the United States, approximately 22 veterans commit suicide every day (Bare, 2015).b. Relevance: This is a serious issue that affects the lives of many military personnel an Continue Reading...
Voices from the trenches: The transfer of teaching and leadership skills from the military environment as veterans enter the teaching profession that affect grit and resilience in underrepresented male students.The need for interdisciplinary team wor Continue Reading...
Overview
Working at the Primary Care Clinic at the Veterans’ Administration (VA), nurses are exposed to a range of diagnoses and patient care concerns. The experience helps evolve core competencies in a range of practice areas. The VA calls the Continue Reading...
Human Services Assistant
The main job of human service assistants is to help people overcome very difficult times, or get more support. They give assistance to co-workers, like social workers, and help customers discover community services or benefi Continue Reading...
Criminal Justice Program Evaluation: Oklahoma County Veterans Treatment CourtA growing body of scholarship confirms that many military veterans, especially combat veterans, experience difficulties in transitioning to civilian life. Although the vast Continue Reading...
Evolving Practice of Nursing and Patient Care Delivery Models
How the Practice of Nursing is Expected to Grow and Change: The Future of Nursing has a few healthcare delivery challenges unique to it, but there are several such issues that commonly oc Continue Reading...
Society Feels About Animals
As a first order primate, humans have a natural affinity with animals of all types that has contributed to their mutual relationships throughout history. In fact, animals of different types have been since the time of th Continue Reading...
This "complex bureaucracy" may at least partially explain the controversy that surrounds many Veterans Hospitals after accusations of poor conditions and health care have tarnished the VA's image during the past year. Two Washington Post reporters w Continue Reading...
Quality of Care Provided by Nurse Practitioners
Cost and quality of healthcare access are two inter-related concepts that are central to the healthcare debate in the United States of America. The study will compare the effectiveness of quality and Continue Reading...
SWOT Analysis DraftSection I: SWOT TableThe organization of interest is the U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) which operates the nations largest integrated network of health care services, providing caring for 9 million enrolled veterans annu Continue Reading...
2). Some of the programs offered by the city include those set forth in Table 5 below.
Table 5
City-Sponsored Community Resources for the Homeless in Las Vegas
Community Resource
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Housing and Homeless Services
In accordance with the Continue Reading...
Reducing Stigma Surrounding Mental Health in the United StatesThesis Statement: The reduction of stigma surrounding mental health in the United States can be achieved through increased public education, destigmatization campaigns, and reform of the h Continue Reading...
Medicare and Medicaid
An important part of health care delivery within the state of Pennsylvania involves access to services such as Medicaid and children's insurance programs. These programs help families in need to obtain health services in order Continue Reading...
substance abuse disorder that can mimic a mental health or medical diagnosis. -Addictions or substance abuse counseling
Brooks, AJ & Penn, PE (2003) Comparing Treatments for Dual Diagnosis: Twelve-Step and Self-Management and Recovery Training Continue Reading...
Sociology Discussion Responses
Response to Post #1
The issue your raise in terms of the long-term negative consequences on the lives and well-being of caregivers is an extremely important one. As you mention, there are various sources of significan Continue Reading...
Trauma-Related Disorders and Recommended Treatment
Clinical Presentation of Trauma-Related Disorders and Recommended Treatments
On January 13, 2015, Andrew Brannan, a 66-year-old Vietnam veteran was executed in Georgia for killing police officer Ky Continue Reading...
Homeless Mental Health
Mental health is an issue that is deemed to be very under-treated and very under-diagnosed within the United States. Beyond that, there are populations that are much more at risk than others. A good example would be the prison Continue Reading...
Experiential Exercise: Observing and Reporting Surroundings at a VA Medical Center
To satisfy the requirements of this assignment, the author recently volunteered at a local Department of Veterans Affairs medical center (VAMC) and the results of thi Continue Reading...
iPads for PTSD
There is a high incidence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among veterans of the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The United States' all-volunteer forces have been engaged in combat for ten years and many military me Continue Reading...
Abnormal Cinema: Alex from HBO's "In Treatment"
Blair Underwood's character, Alex, from HBO's program, "In Treatment" is a highly skilled, high-achieving U.S. Navy pilot who served in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Alex was raised in a Navy family Continue Reading...
" (Finnerty, 2008) It is reported that those who suffer from co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse problems are also likely to be homeless. According to the Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians' Network (2000) "Co-occurring mental illnes Continue Reading...
Overmedicating in the Military: A Case Study into How Holistic Care and Preventive Practices Can Address the Problem of Substance Abuse among Overmedicated Troops
Abstract
This case study examines the problem of overmedication in the military. It dis Continue Reading...
Veterans and the Affordable Healthcare Act
The veterans suffer various challenges emanating from their roles they actively in the battle frontlines. They suffer mental problems like the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, aggr Continue Reading...
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Combat and Substance Abuse
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as a consequence of combat experience, is believed to be a significant risk factor for substance abuse. This theory has been undermined to some extent by recent findings which suggest Continue Reading...
A large number of these youth are not prepared to be independent, regardless of their maturity level; they do not have the skills and services in place to do so. Having to live on one's own maximizes the stresses and personal challenges and require Continue Reading...
Psychology Treatment
For most of U.S. history up to the time of the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, the mentally ill were generally warehoused in state and local mental institutions on a long-term basis. Most had been involuntarily committed by Continue Reading...
State education agencies and local school districts needs to work to incorporate the major provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (U.S. Department of Education, 2004a). The evaluator feels it is imperative that as teacher preparation programs, a Continue Reading...
Suicide Prevention
An "immense need" exists for technical assistance and general consultation that is specific to community healthcare needs (Walker, Louton, Walker & Frizzel, 2006, p. 40). A suicide prevention consultation strategy should first Continue Reading...
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faint trace of lemon significantly increases people's perception of their own health.
Lavender incense contributes to a pleasant mood Continue Reading...
Budgetary Politics
The United States of America has long grappled with the problem of drugs and has form time to time initiated measures to combat the usage and trafficking of drugs. It is common knowledge that the various wars that have been part o Continue Reading...
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Finally, I am interested in whether or not there is a trickle-down effect from leftist or rightist politics style at the provincial and federal levels.
1.3 Objectives
1.3.1 There are two major objectives for this research. The first is to comp Continue Reading...
The job may require x% travel, which might eliminate one of the candidates, etc. Essentially, hiring the female simply based on the demographics would discriminate against the other candidates and therefore, is illegal (Federal Laws, 2009).
Situati Continue Reading...
Homelessness in Orange County California
Homelessness in Orange County - II
The natural history of disease refers to the progress of the disease process in an individual over time and in the absence of intervention (Figure 1.1). Knowledge of the na Continue Reading...
First of all only a scant few of these Veterans groups will acknowledge the "promise" of free health care; for the most part these groups will tout the benefits already promised by the Veterans Administration and assert that cuts in these benefits Continue Reading...
Suicide and How it Impacts Military Families
Description of the Case or Problem
As the number of suicides amidst the U.S. Armed Service members have constantly increased in the past decade, so has the rate of survivors affected by military suicide, Continue Reading...