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| British Soldiers PTSD Risk Lower 05/26/2010 A recent psychiatric study of British troops finds they are suffering incidents of PTSD at much lower rates than their American counterparts. An article in Stars & Stripes suggests possible reaso [ ... ] |
Army Works On Non-Drug PTSD Treatment 05/06/2010 A new study has been published by the Walter Reed Medical Center which outlines a new treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that does not involve the use of drugs. Doctors use a selective nerv [ ... ] |
Wartime Separation Hits Littlest Ones Hard 05/06/2010 You don't need a study to know that being deployed creates havoc with the family structure, stability, and some ability to cope with seemingly everyday mundane things. But data from Tricare, the milit [ ... ] | ||
| Army Families Profiled On ABC 04/19/2010 Two families share their story with ABC News of the struggles faced by returning service members. The Galloway and Haus families show extreme courage to talk about such sensitive issues as depression [ ... ] |
Deployed For Multiple Tours, Marine Reaches Brink 04/19/2010 Pick a name, pick a branch of service, it wouldn't be hard for any service member to put themselves in the boots of Joe Callan...or Jeff Hall...or countless others. Having served multiple tours, these [ ... ] | Other Articles | ||
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You don't need a study to know that being deployed creates havoc with the family structure, stability, and some ability to cope with seemingly everyday mundane things. But data from Tricare, the military's health insurance system, reveals that visits to mental health professionals by kids 5 and under were up a staggering 75% between 2005 and 2009. There is an interesting article in the L.A. Times by writer Faye Fiore that illustrates just how vulnerable the youngest in military families are. More times than not, it's the young ones we deem more resilient because "they simply don't know better." New statistics show that simply isn't the case. The article states that there are 200,000 kids in the U.S. that have at least one parent serving in a war region at any given time. Â |