145 Search Results for Alcohol Abuse And Veterans
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1. The Psychological Impact of Combat and Alcohol Abuse Among Veterans:
This essay would explore the connection between the psychological impact of experiencing combat and the prevalence of alcohol abuse among veterans. Delving i Continue Reading...
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1. The Psychological Impact of Alcohol Abuse on Veterans:
This topic explores how alcohol abuse affects the mental health of veterans, including PTSD, depression, and anxiety, and discusses potential int Continue Reading...
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...
Alcohol and Special Populations: Unique Problems and Considerations That Apply to the Military
The military is a special population that has its own culture and its own code of ethics. Its veterans have their own VA hospital and society recognizes a Continue Reading...
Army Substance Abuse Program, in terms of the program's history, its employment requirements, and the rationale behind them. It looks at various jobs within the hierarchy of this program, from the commanders responsible for implementing the program Continue Reading...
Veterans & Retirees; Is Government Keeping its Promise
This study aimed at exploring the experiences and perceptions of Veterans belonging to Lousiana and Mississippi about three variables; the accessibility of organization; the accessibility of Continue Reading...
Veterans
The need for more robust mental health care is acute worldwide. One specific client population that is currently underserved is that of American veterans of foreign wars. In the state of Hawaii alone, there are seven active military install Continue Reading...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse cautions that while no standardized, effective treatment has been identified for PTSD sufferers, researchers have determined that cognitive behavioral therapy, group therapy, or exposure therapy has shown some pr Continue Reading...
Mental Health in Veterans
What is mental Illness: Mental Illness Facts
A person is said to be mentally when he finds it difficult to cope up with even mundane demands of day-to-day living activities and demands. This could be a result of either or 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...
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...
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...
Drugs and Alcohol Abuse
The United States military faces considerable difficulty related to substance abuse amongst its personnel. It is critical to denote that its substance abuse issues pertain to both active personnel on duty, as well as to veter 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...
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...
Veteran Health and Psychology: Annotated BibliographyMcNamara, K. A., Lucas, C. L., Goldbach, J. T., Kintzle, S., & Castro, C. A. (2019). Mental health of the bisexual veteran.Military Psychology,31(2), 91-99.The authors of this paper assert that the Continue Reading...
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE ON WOMEN INVOLVED IN PROSTITUTION
Conceptual Paper
Millions of children around the globe are sexually abused or exploited. This paper includes several descriptions of studies that relate sexual abuse during childhood to delinque Continue Reading...
Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
Does mental illness cause substance abuse addiction or does substance abuse addiction cause a mental illness diagnosis? Does it go both ways?
A complex relationship exists between substance abuse and mental illne Continue Reading...
Does Gender Affect the Utilization of Mental Health Care Services among Veterans?
The decision one makes when choosing a career poses a lifelong effect on his own life as well as of his family members. The deployment decision of a career that the per Continue Reading...
The War on Terror has led to an extended war in the Middle East that started with a U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, spread to Iraq, and has steadily engulfed other states as well. Returning veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq have suffered from post Continue Reading...
For some, there will be a denial and minimization of the substance habit as being inconsequential, purely recreational or extremely intermittent. This response is akin to the young adult asserting that there is no problem. For other homeless youths, Continue Reading...
' If a person does not disclose their drinking behavior if they seek outside help, they may be misdiagnosed as having an anxiety disorder. Mixing alcohol and medications for anxiety disorders can have lethal consequences, as well as prolonging a proc Continue Reading...
Current brain imaging surveys and other experiments also present evidence that child abuse could permanently damage neural structure and the functioning of the developing brain itself (Carloff).
Cohen (2001) discusses the merits of art therapy with Continue Reading...
Director Martin Teicher of the Developmental Biophsychiatry Research Program at McLean said that maltreatment in childhood can effect changes in brain function and structure. A child's brain continues to develop throughout childhood and adolescence Continue Reading...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Abuse
This paper will highlight post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its related causes such as abuse. The main idea here is to overview some of the causes of this disorder and to relate it with physiological Continue Reading...
Internet Risk and Cybercrime at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Internet Risk
Cybercrime
Today, the mission of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as taken from President Lincoln's second inaugural address is, "To care for him who Continue Reading...
Child Abuse
There are many kinds of abuse that are perpetrated against children, and this paper delves into those issues as well as the history of child abuse and the situations children find themselves in where abuse occurs. Child abuse is a nation Continue Reading...
One of the most frequent injuries is represented by the traumatic brain ones.. amongst other symptoms, one can mention anxiety, severe depression. Headaches and the difficulty to reason clearly. PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder is also manifest Continue Reading...
GENDER DIFFERENCE AMONG VETERANS
Does Gender Affect the Utilization of Mental Health Care Services among Veterans?
The decision one takes when choosing a career poses a lifelong effect on his own life as well as of his family members. The deployment Continue Reading...
Substance Abuse Treatment as it Is Related to Trauma
Research indicates that there is a strong correlation between people who have experienced trauma (whether in childhood or in adulthood) and substance abuse or dependency. Because patients who suff Continue Reading...
Psychology
Veterans
Military members are sent to war leaving behind family, communities, and their lifestyle in order to fight a war. Upon their return they are thrown back into their "old lives" and are expected to adapt quickly and be unchanged ( Continue Reading...
If there is one at-risk population that goes underserved it is the veteran population suffering from PTSD. As the most recent VA study shows, every day up to 20 veterans commit suicide because they are not finding the help they need to deal with thei Continue Reading...
Informed Consent and DebriefingThe purpose of this paper is to create an informed consent form and a debriefing form that explain the nature and true purpose of a proposed clinical study concerning the use of legal, edible cannabis products to treat Continue Reading...
It is also interesting to note that the correlation between depression and childhood sexual abuse was found to be higher among females in many studies.
However, the issue of the relationship between depression and sexual abuse may not be as clear-c Continue Reading...
, 2010). This point is also made by Yehuda, Flory, Pratchett, Buxbaum, Ising and Holsboer (2010), who report that early life stress can also increase the risk of developing PTSD and there may even be a genetic component involved that predisposes some Continue Reading...
Frank seemed to consider that there might be a problem and that change might be necessary. So, beginning treatment should be focus on emphasizing awareness and environmental reevaluation.
A combination of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and moti Continue Reading...
Stress and Drug Abuse
CISM
Discuss the relationship between stress and substance abuse following critical incidents
Sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and survivors of other forms of trauma exhibit far higher rates of substance ab Continue Reading...