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Every 65 Minutes, 1 Veteran Lost: The Alliance to End Veteran Suicide Speaks…
February 06 by Alice FranksAlice, start by telling us a little bit about your history within behavioral health and about the ‘Alliance to End Veteran Suicide’ Actually, my history with behavioral health started...
The Inside Battle: Our Military Mental Health Crisis
January 21 by IDGA EditorMarjorie Morrison, Author of 'The Inside Battle: Our Military Mental Health Crisis’ examines the current crisis surrounding military suicides. Drawing on the aims of her book, Majorie highligh...
Out of the Fire: Into the Fight – Warrior Transition Battalion
January 16 by IDGA EditorIn the following exclusive interview, LTC Michael Cepe, Executive Officer of the Warrior Transition Battalion, examines the diagnosis of those enrolled in the battalion, and explores the various edu...
Visualizing the Invisible Wounds of War: mTBI & PTSD
January 16 by IDGA EditorThere is a correlation between trauma and the ‘invisible wounds of war’. The U.S has deployed about two million services members to the middle east, of that, it is estimated (by the RAND...
Military suicides: Alarm as death rates hit record high
January 15 by Mike O'BrienThe Pentagon has released figures that show the suicide rate among military personnel was the highest in 2012 since records began. Last year there were 349 suicides among active-duty troops, up fr...
Adventure Therapy for Combat Stress Reaction?
October 31 by IDGA EditorAdventure Therapy: send a group of veterans on an Outward Bound sailing expedition for six days. What are the pro's and con's? Perhaps traditional therapies can be anxiety provoking, whereas this ty...
The Impact of Stress on the Warfighter
October 20 by IDGA EditorThe health and wellbeing of our service members and their families is the top priority for the department of defense, whether it is CONUS or OCONUS, pre or post deployment, service members deser...