Monthly Archives: February 2012

The Washington Post: By Lauren Everitt, Andrew Theen and Gulnaz Saiyed, Published: February 14 Despite years of efforts to improve health care and support networks for the National Guard and military reserves, these service members report higher rates of mental … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON (Feb. 15, 2012) – The Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding its efforts to prevent suicide through several new initiatives that increase the availability of services for Veterans, Servicemembers and their families. The new initiatives include a new, free, … Continue reading →

From Bloomberg News By John Hechinger and John Lauerman – Feb 15, 2012 For-profit colleges would lose a financial incentive to enroll soldiers and veterans under U.S. Senate and House bills aimed at curbing what sponsors call aggressive marketing of … Continue reading →

“Afghanistan and Iraq have produced more than 47,000 physically wounded Americans. Far too often, they are forgotten in the shuffle of events.” — VFW Commander-in-Chief Richard De Noyer. Daily World by Link Savoie–With the war in Iraq concluded and the … Continue reading →

E.C. Hurley, PhD–Many veterans never dreamed of needing help coping with life following combat deployments. While the impact of surviving in a combat zone has left many veterans seeking help in overcoming posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), there have been significant … Continue reading →

Mark C. Russell, PhD, ABPP–Media and official reports on prevalence rates of military war stress injury have focused almost exclusively on escalating rates of well-known war stress injuries such as PTSD, depression, generalized anxiety, substance abuse, and traumatic brain injury … Continue reading →