Highlights the unique needs of military and veteran psychiatric patients and offers clinical pearls for treatment

Covers the most common mental health disorders that military and veterans struggle with

Written by experts in military psychiatry and veteran mental health

Autorentext

Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Chair Department of Psychiatry
Medstar Washington Hospital Center
Vice Chair and Professor of Psychiatry

Georgetown University School of Medicine
Professor of Psychiatry

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
110 Irving St., N.W.
East Bldg. 3105
Washington, D.C. 20010

Maria D. Llorente, MD
Professor, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Deputy Chief of Staff, Washington DC VA Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry
50 Irving St NW
Washington DC 20042

Inhalt

Introduction.- Outline of Military Culture and Military and VA Health Systems.- Psychiatry in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs: A History and a Future.- Optimizing Clinical Outcomes in VA Mental Health Care.- Suicide.- Treatment for Trauma Related Disorders: The Three Buckets Model.- Treatment Resistant Depression Among US Military Veterans.- Psychotic Disorders and Best Models of Care.- Alcohol and Alcohol Use Disorder.- Alcohol Pharmacotherapy.- Opiate Use in the Military Context.- Use of Stimulants for ADHD and TBI in Veterans.- Use of Complementary and Integrative Health for Chronic Pain Management Traumatic Brain Injury .- Homeless Veterans and Mental Health.- Contextual Frameworks for Addressing Risk and Fostering Resilience among Sexual and Gender Minority Veterans.- Older Veterans.- Women Veterans.- Military Environmental Exposures and Mental Health.- Neuropsychiatric Quinism: Chronic Encephalopathy Caused by Poisoning by Mefloquine and Related Quinoline Drugs.- Listening to Trauma, and Caring for the Caregiver, A Psychodynamic Reflection in the Age of Burnout.