The relationship between combat and psychiatric breakdown has been well recognised for decades. The change to smaller, professional armed forces has reduced the risk of large-scale acute psychiatric casualties, and …
The Quality Network for Veterans Mental Health Services (QNVMHS) has been set up in collaboration with the Contact Group and is grateful for their continued support in the development and …
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The ‘common-sense’ assumption that service personnel deployed to combat zones will tend to return with reduced psychological health has received a measure of support in some recent work. This study …
It is inevitable that among the UK service personnel returning from the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq will be a number suffering from psychological injury. In view of the various …
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This article compares the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), hazardous alcohol consumption, aggressive behaviour and multiple physical symptoms in US and UK military personnel deployed to Iraq.
This research explores the characteristics of UK veterans who attend services based on the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) model, which aims to improve the availability of psychological treatments …
A debate has ensued about the long-term consequences of mild traumatic brain injury, the ‘signature injury’ of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. This review considers a longitudinal study, in this …
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