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Predictors of veterans’ well-being after leaving service

Society of Clinical Psychology

Although many individuals do well after leaving the military, the transition from military to civilian life can be challenging for some military veterans. Understanding how veterans fare when they leave service is important to inform early intervention and prevention efforts.

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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

Social Work Blog

1 Although PTSD has commonly been associated with the military and veteran populations, it affects people of all ages, communities, gender, and social economic background. This event is open to the public and intended for behavioral health/healthcare providers who treat military personnel, veterans, and their families.

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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

By investigating the underlying mechanism of action in our earlier work, we were able to create an efficient and efficacious intervention that we hope will improve treatment access and the subsequent health, well-being and quality of life of people exposed to trauma and in need of treatment services. Military Medicine, 178 , 939-944.

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Getting Better Outcomes from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatments

Society of Clinical Psychology

Our systematic review assessed high quality evidence for current interventions designed to augment first-line PTSD treatments (Metcalf et al., We clustered these 28 augmentation interventions into eight broad categories, based around the mechanism of augmentation, detailed in the table below. Possible therapeutic outcome.

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Realizing the Promise: Strategic Dissemination and Implementation of CBT in Public and Private Health Care Systems

Society of Clinical Psychology

Within clinical psychology, in particular, there has been a preoccupation on developing efficacious interventions, with almost no historical focus on the methods or mechanisms for how to implement treatments and promote their uptake (Karlin, in press). Military Medicine, 178 , 95-99. Training included participation in a 2.5-day

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Roadmap toward a neuromodulatory treatment for PTSD and anxiety

Society of Clinical Psychology

Together these results suggest that the hippocampus may be a critical target for intervention for PTSD. In addition to delineating potential targets and networks for TMS intervention, preclinical work with TMS has shed light on the mechanism of action of TMS generally (See Box 1), and rTMS/TBS specifically. 2002; Grillon et al.,

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