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The US framework for understanding, preventing, and caring for the mental health needs of service members who served in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq: a brief review of the issues and the research

This paper reviews the psychological health research conducted in the United States in support of combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, using the Military Psychological Health Research Continuum, which includes foundational science, epidemiology, etiology, prevention and screening, treatment, f...

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Autor principal: Castro, Carl Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4138700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25206943
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v5.24713
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description This paper reviews the psychological health research conducted in the United States in support of combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, using the Military Psychological Health Research Continuum, which includes foundational science, epidemiology, etiology, prevention and screening, treatment, follow-up care, and services research. The review is limited to those studies involving combat veterans and military families. This review discusses perplexing issues regarding the impact of combat on the mental health of service members such as risk and resilience factors of mental health, biomarkers of posttraumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), mental health training, psychological screening, psychological debriefing, third location decompression, combat and suicide, the usefulness of psychotherapy and drug therapy for treating PTSD, role of advanced technology, telemedicine and virtual reality, methods to reduce stigma and barriers to care, and best approaches to the dissemination of evidence-based interventions. The mental health research of special populations such as women, National Guardsmen and reservists, and military families is also presented. The review concludes by identifying future areas of research.
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spelling pubmed-41387002014-09-09 The US framework for understanding, preventing, and caring for the mental health needs of service members who served in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq: a brief review of the issues and the research Castro, Carl Andrew Eur J Psychotraumatol PTSD in the Military: Prevalence, Pathophysiology, Treatment This paper reviews the psychological health research conducted in the United States in support of combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, using the Military Psychological Health Research Continuum, which includes foundational science, epidemiology, etiology, prevention and screening, treatment, follow-up care, and services research. The review is limited to those studies involving combat veterans and military families. This review discusses perplexing issues regarding the impact of combat on the mental health of service members such as risk and resilience factors of mental health, biomarkers of posttraumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), mental health training, psychological screening, psychological debriefing, third location decompression, combat and suicide, the usefulness of psychotherapy and drug therapy for treating PTSD, role of advanced technology, telemedicine and virtual reality, methods to reduce stigma and barriers to care, and best approaches to the dissemination of evidence-based interventions. The mental health research of special populations such as women, National Guardsmen and reservists, and military families is also presented. The review concludes by identifying future areas of research. Co-Action Publishing 2014-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4138700/ /pubmed/25206943 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v5.24713 Text en © 2014 Carl Andrew Castro http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The US framework for understanding, preventing, and caring for the mental health needs of service members who served in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq: a brief review of the issues and the research
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title_short The US framework for understanding, preventing, and caring for the mental health needs of service members who served in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq: a brief review of the issues and the research
title_sort us framework for understanding, preventing, and caring for the mental health needs of service members who served in combat in afghanistan and iraq: a brief review of the issues and the research
topic PTSD in the Military: Prevalence, Pathophysiology, Treatment
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4138700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25206943
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v5.24713
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