Recently released research by the herein reviewed 2016 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and 2015 Journal of American Medicine (JAMA) studies on veterans suicide include data sets of over 54 million veterans.
EMDR and Information Processing in Psychotherapy Treatment
A Clinical Model for the Comprehensive Treatment of Trauma Using an AffectExperiencing-Attachment Theory Approach
Solution to Veteran Suicide: Get an Honorable Discharge and a College Degree?
Combat Does Not Cause Suicide - Bad Discharges Do
Our agency has recently converged data furnished by the Journal of the American Medical Association (Reger, Smolenski, Skopp et. al., 2015) and the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA, 2016 & Thompson, 2016), which appear to show the key causes of veteran suicide is not war, not post traumatic stress disorder, and not the quality of care received at the Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, but rather lack of access to VA services and post service educational benefits as a direct result of improper Department of Defense administration practices which led to veterans’ statuses of discharges of “less than honorable”, which result in ineligibility for these vital programs and services.
Suicide Prevention Group Therapy Model
This paper will discuss precisely why veterans tend to avoid treatment, how to “bridge the gap” and engage them in the discussion of available modalities, and also provide a template group therapy outline to enable greater engagement by veterans prior to the creeping ideations of suicide that often preempt such self-inflicted and avoidable tragedies.
Analysis of PTSD Treatments
VETERAN SUICIDE RESEARCH
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2015 - JAMA Psychiatry (72)6: 561-569
Suicide Among Veterans and Other Americans 2001–2014 Office of Suicide Prevention 3 August 2016