Veterans' Healthcare Services for PTSD - Programs, Eligibility, and Cost

VETERANS’ HEALTHCARE
SERVICES- PTSD
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Overview
• PTSD is a psychiatric condition that befalls people who have experienced disturbing
events like natural tragedies, serious accidents, extremist acts, war, rape cases and
other forceful personal assault (Andreasen, 2011).
• PTSD is characterized by flashbacks about past events, nightmares, anxiety, and
uncontainable thoughts (distress) of the frightening events that have happened in past.
• Such kind of people requires special handling for them to recover from such traumatic
memories.
• There are a number of programs and services offered by the Department of Defense
and other non-government organizations like Veterans Affairs to assist such kind of
people (veterans) in Texas.

Programs and services offered to veterans with PTSD
 These programs and services are groups into three main categories i.e. pre-deployment,
post-deployment, and post-deployment health reassessment in which veterans receive
services like treatment, counseling, group therapy, individual and family therapy among
other under programs like:
 Wounded Warrior programs
 Army stress reset programs
 Residential PTSD treatment programs
 Civilian partial hospitalization programs
 Outpatient treatment programs

Factors influencing veterans
need for mental health services
 A number of factors have been linked to veterans need for mental health services. Usually, these factors
affect the normal functioning of the veteran brain making them be upset by past events. Such factors
include:
 Drug and substance abuse (IOM, 2014).
 Traumatic brain injuries and events (sexual trauma in which according to VA 1out of 4 women and 1 out
of 100 men have experienced sexual trauma.)
 Neurological problems (if such disorder has ever happened in childhood 77%)
 Little or no social support after the traumatic events have occurred (Brewin et al, 2000)
 Nonwhite race
 Longer deployment periods in traumatic places.