Removing Barriers in the Assessment of Combat-Related Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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Removing Barriers in the Assessment of Combat-Related Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.
While the Veterans Health Administration continues to treat Vietnam War Veterans, approximately two million service men and women have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan. However, our treatments can only be as effective as the quality of our clinical assessment. Disclosure of trauma is facilitated when the type of trauma is present in the sociocultural environment of patient and clinician. Topi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Military Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0026-4075,1930-613X
DOI: 10.7205/milmed-d-15-00182