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This book takes a case-based approach to addressing the challenges psychiatrists and other clinicians face when working with American combat veterans after their return from a war zone. Written by experts, the book concentrates on a wide variety of concerns associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including different treatments of PTSD. The text also looks at PTSD comorbidities, such as depression and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other conditions masquerading as PTSD. Finally, the authors touch on other subjects concerning returning veterans, including pain, disability, facing the end of a career, sleep problems , suicidal thoughts, violence, , and mefloquine “toxidrome”. Each case study includes a case presentation, diagnosis and assessment, treatment and management, outcome and case resolution, and clinical pearls and pitfalls. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Related Diseases in Combat Veterans is a valuable resource for civilian and military mental health practitioners, and primary care physicians on how to treat patients returning from active war zones.
Medicine. --- Psychiatry. --- Psychotherapy. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Post-traumatic stress disorder. --- Combat --- Psychological aspects. --- Posttraumatic stress disorder --- PTSD (Psychiatry) --- Stress disorder, Post-traumatic --- Traumatic stress syndrome --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Psychology, Military --- Anxiety disorders --- Stress (Psychology) --- Traumatic neuroses --- Intrusive thoughts --- Psychagogy --- Therapy (Psychotherapy) --- Mental illness --- Clinical sociology --- Mental health counseling --- Treatment --- Psychotherapy .
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Grounded in the best science available, this essential volume presents practical guidelines for effective clinical intervention in the immediate, intermediate, and long-term aftermath of large-scale traumatic events. Vital lessons learned from a variety of mass traumas and natural disasters are incorporated into the book's thorough review of strategies for helping specific victim and survivor populations. The editors and authors include over 40 leading experts in disaster mental health. Of crucial importance, they clearly summarize the empirical evidence supporting each intervention and provide other guidance based on experience and consensus recommendations.
Post-traumatic stress disorder --- Psychic trauma --- Psychotherapy --- Stress Disorders, Traumatic --- Mental Health Services --- Violence --- Disaster Medicine
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This book takes a case-based approach to addressing the challenges psychiatrists and other clinicians face when working with American combat veterans after their return from a war zone. Written by experts, the book concentrates on a wide variety of concerns associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including different treatments of PTSD. The text also looks at PTSD comorbidities, such as depression and traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other conditions masquerading as PTSD. Finally, the authors touch on other subjects concerning returning veterans, including pain, disability, facing the end of a career, sleep problems , suicidal thoughts, violence, , and mefloquine “toxidrome”. Each case study includes a case presentation, diagnosis and assessment, treatment and management, outcome and case resolution, and clinical pearls and pitfalls. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Related Diseases in Combat Veterans is a valuable resource for civilian and military mental health practitioners, and primary care physicians on how to treat patients returning from active war zones.
Psychiatry --- psychiatrie --- psychotherapie
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In the very first text of its kind, Women at War brings together all available information and experience on women's physical and mental health in one resource to enlighten the practitioners caring for them. Our U.S Department of Defense is approximately 15% women with over 300,000 women having deployed since September 11th, 2001. This book reviews the epidemiology, changes in policy and demographics of women in the services, the factors affecting their health and health care while serving in austere environments, issues related to reproductive and urogenital health and how health care provide
WOMEN SOLDIERS--MEDICAL CARE--USA --- WOMEN VETERANS--MEDICAL CARE--USA --- Soldiers --- Women --- Health and hygiene
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This volume explores the unique psychiatric needs of active and former military personnel and offers clinical pearls for the optimal delivery of care for these individuals. Written by experts in military and veteran psychiatry, this book addresses the most common issues in military and veteran patients, including depression, traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, substance use disorder, homelessness, and suicidality. Chapters highlight the characteristics of veterans suffering from each disorder that requires special treatment, making it a valuable resource for both military and civilian clinicians. Veteran Psychiatry in the US is a valuable resource for all mental health clinicians working with or seeking to work with veterans, including psychiatrists, neurologists, primary care physicians, psychologists, counselors, social workers, nurses, residents, and all others.
Military psychiatry. --- Psychiatry, Military --- Medicine, Military --- Psychiatry --- War neuroses --- Psychiatry. --- Neurology. --- Psychology, clinical. --- Emergency medicine. --- Clinical Psychology. --- Primary Care Medicine. --- Medicine, Emergency --- Medicine --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Nervous system --- Neuropsychiatry --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Diseases --- Neurology . --- Clinical psychology. --- Primary care (Medicine). --- Primary medical care --- Medical care --- Psychology, Applied --- Psychological tests --- Military psychiatry --- Neurology --- Emergency medicine
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Psychiatry. --- Geriatrics. --- Medicine --- Gerontology --- Older people --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Persones sense sostre --- Assistència sanitària --- Assistència mèdica --- Assistència medicosocial --- Atenció mèdica --- Servei mèdic --- Tractament mèdic --- Salut pública --- Assistència ambulatòria --- Assistència psiquiàtrica --- Assistència hospitalària --- Atenció domiciliària --- Atenció primària --- Medicina personalitzada --- Serveis d'infermeria --- Serveis d'urgències mèdiques --- Serveis farmacèutics --- Assegurances de malaltia --- Assistència sanitària privada --- Serveis sanitaris --- Col·lectius sense sostre --- Homeless --- Indigents --- Persones sense llar --- Sense llar --- Sense sostre --- Transeünts --- Vagabunds --- Vagabunds sense llar --- Centres d'acolliment --- Dret a l'habitatge --- Homeless persons --- Psychology. --- Ill-Housed Persons --- Psychology --- Social Determinants of Health --- Medical care. --- Mental health services. --- Structural Determinants of Health --- Health Social Determinant --- Health Social Determinants --- Health Structural Determinant --- Health Structural Determinants --- Community Support --- Factors, Psychological --- Psychological Factors --- Psychological Side Effects --- Psychologists --- Psychosocial Factors --- Side Effects, Psychological --- Factor, Psychological --- Factor, Psychosocial --- Factors, Psychosocial --- Psychological Factor --- Psychological Side Effect --- Psychologist --- Psychosocial Factor --- Side Effect, Psychological --- Homelessness --- Homeless Persons --- Homeless Shelters --- Shelterless Persons --- Shelters for Homeless Persons --- Street People --- Unhoused Persons --- Homeless Person --- Homeless Shelter --- Ill Housed Persons --- Ill-Housed Person --- People, Street --- Person, Homeless --- Person, Ill-Housed --- Person, Shelterless --- Person, Unhoused --- Persons, Homeless --- Persons, Ill-Housed --- Persons, Shelterless --- Persons, Unhoused --- Shelter, Homeless --- Shelterless Person --- Shelters, Homeless --- Unhoused Person --- Transients and Migrants --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Philosophy --- Soul --- Homeless adults --- Homeless people --- Street people (Homeless persons) --- Persons
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This volume explores the unique psychiatric needs of active and former military personnel and offers clinical pearls for the optimal delivery of care for these individuals. Written by experts in military and veteran psychiatry, this book addresses the most common issues in military and veteran patients, including depression, traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, substance use disorder, homelessness, and suicidality. Chapters highlight the characteristics of veterans suffering from each disorder that requires special treatment, making it a valuable resource for both military and civilian clinicians. Veteran Psychiatry in the US is a valuable resource for all mental health clinicians working with or seeking to work with veterans, including psychiatrists, neurologists, primary care physicians, psychologists, counselors, social workers, nurses, residents, and all others.
Psychiatry --- Neuropathology --- Orthopaedics. Traumatology. Plastic surgery --- Human medicine --- medische psychologie --- psychiatrie --- hersenen --- spoedgevallen --- EHBO (eerste hulp bij ongelukken) --- klinische psychologie
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This volume highlights the socioeconomic concerns related to medical care for homeless patients and places them at the interface of common psychiatric and medical problems clinicians encounter. Written by experts in psychiatry and other medical specialties, this volume is a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the homeless crisis, its costs, and ultimately, best practices for improved outcomes. The text begins by examining the scope and epidemiology of the problem and discusses its costs. It then examines the best practices for both physical and psychiatric care before concluding with a section on working with special populations that have unique concerns across the country including LGBTQ, women, children, veterans, and aging adults. As the first medical book on homelessness, it is designed to cover a broad range of concerns in a concise, practical fashion for all clinicians working with homeless patients. Clinical Management of the Homeless Patient is written by and for psychiatrists, general internists, geriatricians, pediatricians, addiction medicine physicians, VA physicians, and all others who may encounter this crisis in their work. .
Sociology of health --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Paediatrics --- Geriatrics --- Social medicine --- Psychiatry --- Human medicine --- volksgezondheid --- psychiatrie --- bedrijfssoftware --- vertalen --- pediatrie --- geriatrie --- huisartsen
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This book tells the professional and personal experiences of American military psychiatrists and their fellow mental health providers in the longest conflict in American history. These men and women treat service members for the psychological consequences from their experiences in battle, including killing enemy combatants; seeing wounded and killed civilian casualties; losing their friends in combat; factoring in personal mental health needs,; and potentially dealing with their own physical injuries from being shot or blown up. The volume consists of 20 short first-person case studies from mental health providers who have been risking their lives while treating patients in the battlefield since 9/11. Written by experts who have experienced these challenges directly, this text offers both clinical and personal accounts that are not found elsewhere. Topics include tips on providing psychotherapy in battle, evaluating and treating detainees in war prisons such as Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and the unique challenges of prescribing medication to patients who are also comrades in war. Psychiatrists in Combat; Mental Health Clinicians in the War Zone is uniquely positioned to be a valuable resource for psychiatrists interested in trauma and veterans, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, military health personnel, and mental health professionals interested in military psychiatry. .
Military psychiatry. --- Psychiatry, Military --- Medicine. --- Emergency medicine. --- Primary care (Medicine). --- Psychiatry. --- Psychotherapy. --- Occupational therapy. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Occupational Therapy. --- Primary Care Medicine. --- Medicine, Military --- Psychiatry --- War neuroses --- Activity programs, Therapeutic effect of --- Occupation therapy --- Work, Therapeutic effect of --- Medical rehabilitation --- Physical therapy --- Psychotherapy --- Therapeutics, Physiological --- Medicine, Emergency --- Medicine --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Medical emergencies --- Psychagogy --- Therapy (Psychotherapy) --- Mental illness --- Clinical sociology --- Mental health counseling --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Treatment --- Psychotherapy . --- Primary medical care --- Medical care
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This volume tells the history of homosexuality in the United States military beginning in 1986, when the issue first came to the forefront of social consciousness. Each chapter is written through the eyes of gay mental healthcare providers, covering how to steadily adapt and learn to treat veterans struggling with the traumas associated with the stigma of homosexuality in service. Topics include the “Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell” (DADT) policy, its repeal in 2011, and addresses the current trends and challenges. Unlike any other professional book, this text includes the personal stories of gay military mental healthcare providers, as well as gay civilian clinicians who have worked with the military population in various segments in history. These accounts offer invaluable support for medical professionals working with this demographic. Chapters cover the various psychological damage service personnel encounter as it uniquely pertains to those struggling with the stigma of LGBTQ rights. Chapters include clinical pearls for particular psychiatric concerns, lessons learned for the future, and hard-earned successes as stigmas and perceptions evolved over time. Gay Mental Healthcare Providers and Patients in the Military is an excellent resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, policymakers, and all professionals who are interested in LGBTQ rights in the context of veteran psychiatry.
Medicine. --- General practice (Medicine). --- Public health. --- Psychiatry. --- Psychotherapy. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Public Health. --- General Practice / Family Medicine. --- Gay military personnel --- Mental health --- Gay Armed Forces members --- Gay service members --- Gay soldiers --- Gays in military service --- Gays in the Armed Forces --- Gays in the military --- Armed Forces --- Family medicine. --- Family practice (Medicine) --- General practice (Medicine) --- Medicine --- Physicians (General practice) --- Psychagogy --- Therapy (Psychotherapy) --- Mental illness --- Clinical sociology --- Mental health counseling --- Medicine and psychology --- Psychology, Pathological --- Treatment --- Psychotherapy . --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Transgender military personnel --- Gay counselors --- Counselors --- Transgender Armed Forces members --- Transgender people in the Armed Forces --- Transgender people in the military --- Transgender service members --- Transgender soldiers
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