It may be that CBT is the most helpful, but further evidence is needed to prove so. PTSD has recurring ramifications that affect many variables of life from employment opportunities to social and family atmosphere. There are some who never fully rec 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...
Department of Veterans Affairs Claims Processing Dilemmas Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a cabinet-level agency in the U.S. government. The mission of the VA is taken from Lincoln's second inaugural address and is to "care for him who shall Continue Reading...
Disabled Veterans In U.S. history, the term affirmative action is of relatively recent origin, and first came into use under the Kennedy administration in 1961, when it ordered federal contractors to speed up the employment of minorities and banned 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 Security Breach The Veteran's Affairs department has had several notable security breeches in recent years. In one 2006 incident, patient data was downloaded onto an unsecured laptop and stolen. Patient records at the VA were unencrypted at the t Continue Reading...
Improving Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Wait Time for Veterans Care Veterans are senior citizens who have served the nation in a dedicated manner and in their elder days need to feel the reciprocation of the nation on the sacrifice that they 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...
When it comes to any crime or series of crimes, there are three main components that are typically present when it comes to the people involved. Those three parts would be the opportunity, the financial pressure involved and the rationalization. Oppo Continue Reading...
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, 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...
Homelessness Among the Veteran Community: America's Forgotten Heroes Each year, thousands of citizens wind up homeless and living on the streets in America, as well as all over the world. The issue of homelessness in the U.S. has become widespread e Continue Reading...
Discrimination and Affirmative Action Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) prohibits private and state and local government employers with 15 or more employees from Continue Reading...
These findings are truly alarming given the fact that fully 65% of the military personnel who have served in Iraq report a history of combat experience and these experiences can clearly result in physical and emotional injuries, with PTSD being expe Continue Reading...
Diversity Audit The Coca Cola Company is well-known for its commitment to diversity. The Company has a workforce where almost half the employees are women. However, their representation on the senior management levels is only 26%. The company also r Continue Reading...
War is always a collective historical event that survives in official government records and propaganda as well as mass media images and academic and popular writing. Of course, not all individual experiences can be captured by the collective memory, Continue Reading...
" (Giovacchini, 1996, pg. 2) According to Giovachinni research into the psychodynamics of individuals in their experience of current adjustments and symptom formation is "much more interesting and fulfilling than monitoring surface behavior. process Continue Reading...
Lives on the Boundary by Mike Rose The achievements of Rose with his students were successful and exceptional because most of his students were in the circumstances he was once in the discredits most of the educational fallacies and stereotypes tha Continue Reading...
Laws invariably impact scope of care and scope of practice. Many scope of care-related laws are designed to protect the interest of patients and/or consumers. Similar to jurisdiction debates in law enforcement, scope of care issues in healthcare high Continue Reading...
g., when there are deaths of several soldiers or emergency workers of a unit). Combat is a stressor that is associated with a relatively high risk of PTSD, and those interventions that can potentially diminish this risk are very important. But what i Continue Reading...
components of value-based purchasing (VBP) that are most pertinent to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) based on its vital mission to provide high-quality health care services to the nation's veterans while identifying opportunities to re Continue Reading...
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operates the nation's largest healthcare system through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), including 152 medical centers (VA Continue Reading...
In civilian life, such individuals will have gained a traditional ethical education whereas in a combat context, such individuals will have been instructed on the use of lethal force. According to Willis, "habit and practice help the willingness and Continue Reading...
Performance Review I totally agree with the statement that managers who have regular conversions with their employees will definitely know where their employees stand hence performance evaluation maybe unnecessary. Through such regular conversions, 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...
Driven Working for the Department of Veteran's Affairs means that I need to be able to get results. They are very important, and in 2002 I was asked to participate in a task force for the advancement and the employment of women. I led the subcommit Continue Reading...
cabinet-level agency in the U.S. government termed "Agency X" herein is the largest healthcare provider in the nation. With a multi-billion dollar budget, virtually universal support from the American public and a national network of healthcare faci Continue Reading...
In an acute care setting, such Veterans Affairs, this objective is executed by educating patients about how to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle after the leave the facility, while in a long-term care setting-such as Cobble Hill-this objective i Continue Reading...
skills, and professional attributes you bring to your area of practice or specialization. I bring several different types of skills and professional attributes into my area of practice of specialization. First, my capacity for empathy, sympathy, an Continue Reading...
Interview with Specialist Six Alan West, U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran Just over 53,000 men and women died in the Vietnam War, but the ravages of this war did not end in Southeast Asia. Although many Vietnam veterans experienced problems in readjusting Continue Reading...
By nature, this approach demonstrates that "much research is pragmatically driven by the high-impact publication requirements of academia." (Byrne et al., 47) This is an important idea to consider in desiring to reflect validity in a qualitative app Continue Reading...
It is also a "what" problem, however, because the major issue Mr. McNerney, (and others at the company) need to address is "what needs to be changed." It is a "why" problem, moreover, because 3M executives need to endeavor to discover how 3M "lost i Continue Reading...
Recruitment Females Veterans U.S. Military Before starting assignment, review Module 2 Background reading. You a newly hired HR staffing specialist MEGAQUIPMENT, a private-sector employer business making large, earthmoving equipment U. Hiring indivi Continue Reading...
S. citizens has had a terrible effect on American war veterans who fought in Vietnam. Surely, one of the best methods of preventing physical and psychological war traumas would be to prevent wars. However, when there is no other option than to commi Continue Reading...
Some patients feel helpless, hopeless, depressed, isolated from others, belittled, and do not know how to seek appropriate help from others (Rutter 2004). Socially supportive arrangements were addressed as the attributes of socially legitimate roles Continue Reading...
Manipulation in Never Let Me Go Manipulation is a relatively dark part of interpersonal relationships that occurs when the manipulator has certain motivations or inner uncertainties. It generally stems from a feeling of insecurity or other forms of Continue Reading...
Gardner's Art Through The Ages Gender in Western Art has been a vexed subject since the later twentieth century, not only in terms of artistic representation of gender, but also in terms of the gender of the artists themselves. With the rise of the Continue Reading...
