Major US mental health organizations pledged to offer volunteer help on Monday for a non-profit group that provides free counseling to US soldiers suffering from the psychological wounds of war.
Following the recent and numerous military activities of the United States, the country's war veterans have turned out to be causalities of several psychological wounds. And so, major US mental health organizations have pledged to offer volunteer help for a non-profit group that hopes to provide free counseling to such US soldiers.
The growing number of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan facing mental disorders represents a "national crisis," said Elizabeth Clark, head of the National Association of Social Workers, one of four organizations promising to assist the Give an Hour charity.
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"The backing of these four organizations opens the door to roughly 400,000 mental health professionals," Give an Hour spokeswoman Lauren Itzkowitz told AFP.
The group, founded three years ago by clinical psychologist Barbara Romberg, wants to expand its current list of around 3,000 volunteers to 40,000.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, in response to numerous complaints over local health care for veterans, is planning to set up an outpatient clinic that would open by 2011.
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The cost of treating soldiers diagnosed with PTSD or depression in the first two years following their return from war was estimated by RAND to be up to 6.2 billion dollars, while the cost of one year of treatment for just 2,700 cases of traumatic brain injury identified to date was up to 910 million dollars.
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Fletcher’s new nose is completely functional. He can breathe and sneeze through it, and expectations are that he will soon be sensitive to smell and touch.
Fletcher’s new nose is completely functional. He can breathe and sneeze through it, and expectations are that he will soon be sensitive to smell and touch.
Much of the burden of helping US combat veterans and their families to cope with psychological problems has been carried by the military and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Gulf War Veterans Exhibit Memory Impairment
A US government funded study reveals the war veterans who have come back after combat in the gulf are exhibiting memory impairment.
A US government funded study reveals the war veterans who have come back after combat in the gulf are exhibiting memory impairment.
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