Veteran Psychiatry in the US Optimizing Clinical Outcomes / edited by Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, Maria D. Llorente.

This volume explores the unique psychiatric needs of active and former military personnel and offers clinical pearls for the optimal delivery of care for these individuals. Written by experts in military and veteran psychiatry, this book addresses the most common issues in military and veteran patie...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ritchie, Elspeth Cameron (Editor), Llorente, Maria D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.