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Suicide prevention continues to elude Army leaders
While the Army has devoted unprecedented resources and attention to the increasing suicide rate of soldiers, service leaders still don't have a good handle on how to prevent troops from taking their own lives.
"It's deeply disconcerting," said Col. Elspeth Ritchie, a psychiatrist and the Army's director of behavioral health. "We've been working on this for a long time, yet still we had eight active-duty suicides in the first eight days of this year."
Ritchie made the remarks Monday during a conference on suicide prevention in Washington held jointly by the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments....>>>>>
IDGA Announces Launch of New Annual Military Healthcare Convention & Conference
The Institute for Defense and Government Advancement, Exhibitions Group (IDGA) announces the launch of its inaugural Military Healthcare Convention & Conference (MHCC) scheduled for June 22-25, 2010 in San Antonio, Texas.
The objective of the event is to create a national, large-scale military medical event where healthcare professionals (all military branches, Tricare, and non-military) come to learn about new developments in a range of disciplines as well as gain insights and transparency into the continuum of care.
“Caregivers have indicated that they are looking for two specific experiences” stated Michael Gallo, Managing Director of IDGA Exhibitions. “The first is that they want to benchmark and compare notes with others in the same discipline who are facing the same challenges. The second is that they seek greater transparency and insights into the continuum of care, specifically care that is occurring before and after points of treatment. Our team’s objective is to create an environment where both of these experiences can occur simultaneously.”
Specific conference topics will include continuum of care panels and individual sessions on important issues like pre-deployment care, golden hour care, assessment of and treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)....More Here
These types of Family Stresses Also Contribute to the stresses the soldier deployed, especially in occupation theaters, and leads to the mental injuries that develop.
Study finds war, deployments exhausting Army spouses
Wives of soldiers deployed to war zones are more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety and sleep disorders than women whose husbands are home, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers from the University of North Carolina and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences examined medical records of more than 250,000 women married to active-duty soldiers. They reviewed records for outpatient care received between 2003 and 2006.....>>>>>
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Prevention of Psychiatric Problems among Military Personnel and Their Spouses
It is always important to capture information generated from clinical databases to advance theory and practice. This is certainly the case with two articles in this issue of the Journal. One article addresses the secondary prevention of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by the administration of morphine during resuscitation and early trauma care in U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel injured in combat. The other article describes increased mental health problems among wives of deployed U.S. Army personnel.....>>>>>
Wife says military spouses also face suicide risk
The wife of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had a message Wednesday for those trying to prevent military suicides: Don't forget the spouses.
Deborah Mullen said Army leaders told her that they lack the ability to track suicide attempts by family members of Army personnel.
"I was stunned when I was told there are too many to track," Mullen said, speaking on stage at a military suicide prevention conference next to her husband, Adm. Mike Mullen.
She urged the military to get a better handle on the problem and implement prevention measures with spouses in mind....>>>>>
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