Every day roughly twenty veterans commit suicide. It is estimated that 22% of all suicide deaths in the US are veterans. Former professional surfer Van Curaza...
It was about 9 years ago. I decided to put down the rifle and pick up the DSM. You see, I was an infantryman since I...
Transgender people make up a small percentage of active-duty U.S. military personnel, but their experience in the service may yield long-term, positive effects on their mental...
The Post-9/11 G.I. Bill, which covers educational costs for veterans beyond tuition, has boosted college enrollment rates among veterans by 3 percentage points compared with the...
As a military health researcher, I hear veteran women tell me all the time that they sometimes feel invisible. The Service Women’s Action Network is calling...
I used to think I understood health. I worked in fitness and told people about it for a living. I WAS WRONG. Focusing only on movement...
By Kate Hendricks Thompson and Sarah Plummer Taylor An increase in trauma-informed care leads to more efficient and effective response at every level of patient care,...
The idea that PTSD is an unalterable, lifetime sentence is neurologically untrue. This is good news!!! So why haven’t our conversations about military mental health moved...
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder that results from a traumatic experience. Common symptoms are nightmares, flashbacks, intrusive memories, depression, and anxiety following a...
Despite the vast news coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, one figure has remained mysterious: the number of suicides among US servicemen...
By Brian Neese Military members comprise less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, yet veterans represent 20 percent of suicides nationally, according to the National...
Add digital skills to the many skill sets we wear as social workers. Our clients are carrying around devices that can serve as a secondary tool...
Did you ever want to be a Superhero? Did you ever wish that you could possess magical powers, like Harry Potter, or travel around the world...
Part one of this series analyzed the impact of the Bonus Army, and part two looked at the survival of the Private vs. Public argument when...
Part one of this series analyzed the history of the Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF) and their actions during the Great Depression, and how its influence dramatically...
As humans evolve, there is the expectation that we will function on a higher plane with each cycle of evolution. Learning from past mistakes and failures,...
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Chanel, now a middle-class mother of one, is just one of many women who have used abortion to end a...
Egg and sperm donations in the United States have long proceeded under the cloak of secrecy. Twenty-five years ago, when...
By Henna Budhwani and Kristine Ria Hearld Contraception is complicated. Reproductive health scholars can comfortably weigh the protective benefits of...
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — States with Democratic leaders tended to have responded more strongly to COVID-19 and have seen a lower...
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