Veterans – The paper focuses on three main areas; psychological decompression, psycho-education and screening.

A review of United Kingdom Armed Forces’ approaches to prevent post-deployment mental health problems, International Review of Psychiatry, April 2011, Vol. 23, No. 2 , Pages 135-143 Fertout M, Jones N, Greenberg N, Mulligan K, Knight T, Wessely S. Academic Centre for Defence Mental Health, Academic Dept of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Cutcombe Road, [...]

Veterans – A clinician’s guide to PTSD treatments for returning veterans

A clinician’s guide to PTSD treatments for returning veterans, Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, Vol 42(1), Feb 2011, 8-15   Sharpless, Brian A.; Barber, Jacques P. Abstract: What options are available to mental health providers helping clients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? In this paper we review many of the current pharmacological and psychological interventions [...]

Veterans – Findings demonstrate that an intervention targeting trauma-specific sleep disturbance produces large short-term effects, including substantial reductions in PTSD symptoms and insomnia severity

A multi-component cognitive-behavioral intervention for sleep disturbance in veterans with PTSD: a pilot study, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 2011 February 15; 7(1): 57–68 Abstract: STUDY OBJECTIVES: A significant portion of US military personnel are returning from deployment with trauma-related sleep disturbance, and disrupted sleep has been proposed as a mechanism for the development of [...]

Veterans – PTSD and suicidal behaviours in veterans seem not to be associated with significantly more negative views of the self but rather with more alienation from civilian life. This has serious consequences for engaging veterans in National Health Service (NHS) mental health services and for the provision of effective treatment

Trauma, identity and mental health in UK military veterans, Psychological Medicine, 2011, vol. 41, no8, pp. 1733-1740 Brewin, C R et al. Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Abstract: Background. Military service can lead to profound changes in identity, both in servicemen’s perception of themselves and in their [...]