Combat and Operational Behavioral Health

Contents

Front Matter

Section I: Setting the Stage

1. Combat and Operational Behavioral Health: An Update to an Old History
2. US Army Psychiatry Legacies of the Vietnam War
3. Preparation for Deployment: Improving Resilience
4. Combat and Operational Stress Control
5. Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Contributions During Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom: From Research to Public Health Policy

    

Section II: In Theater

6. The Division Psychiatrist and Brigade Behavioral Health Officers
7. US Marine Corps and Navy Combat and Operational Stress Continuum Model: A Tool for Leaders
8. Expeditionary Operational Stress Control in the US Navy
9. Provision of Mental Health Services in Operation Iraqi Freedom 05–07
10. Psychiatric Medications in Military Operations
11. The Role of Chaplains in the Operational Army
12. Psychiatric Consultation to Command

Section III: The Road Home

13. The Aeromedical Evacuation
14. Behavioral Healthcare at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
15. Traumatic Brain Injury in the Military Population
16. Psychiatric Intervention for the Battle-Injured Medical and Surgical Patient Following Traumatic Injuries
17. Oral Health Effects of Combat Stress

Section IV: Reunion and Reintegration

18. Resetting the Force: Reentry and Redeployment
19. Treatment of Deployment-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
20. The Continuum of Care for New Combat Veterans and Their Families: A Public Health Approach
21. Pain Management
22. US Army Occupational Therapy: Promoting Optimal Performance
23. Provider Fatigue and Provider Resiliency Training

Section V: Surveillance and Intervention

24. Army Suicide Surveillance: A Prerequisite to Suicide Prevention
25. Suicide Prevention in the Army: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
26. Suicide and Homicide Risk Management: Rationale and Suggestions for the Use of Unit Watch
27. Severe Psychiatric Illness in the Military Healthcare System
28. Eating Disorders
29. Substance Use and Abuse in the Military

Section VI. Military Children and Families

30. The Impact of Deployment on Military Families and Children
31. The Children and Families of Combat-Injured Service Members
32. Family Maltreatment and Military Deployment
33. The Families and Children of Fallen Military Service Members
34. Establishing an Integrated Behavioral Health System of Care at Schofield Barracks

Section VII. Operational Behavioral Health

35. Disaster Psychiatry
36. Terrorism and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive Weapons
37. Operation Iraqi Freedom 05–07 Medical Civil-Military Operations: Lessons Learned in Humanitarian Assistance
38. Behavioral Health Issues in Humanitarian and Military Relief Operations: The Special Problem of Complex Emergencies
39. Population-Based Programs and Health Diplomacy Approaches of the US Public Health Service
40. Behavioral Health Issues and Detained Individuals
41. Mental Healthcare in the United Kingdom Armed Forces

Section VIII. Other Military Issues

42. Military Psychiatry Graduate Medical Education
43. Military Forensic Mental Health
44. Women, Mental Health, and the Military
45. Mental Health Support to Operations Involving Death and the Dead
46. Ethics and Military Medicine: Core Contemporary Questions
47. Combat and Operational Behavioral Health: Final Thoughts and Next Steps

Appendix 1: Provision of Behavioral Health Services During Operation Iraqi Freedom One

Appendix 2: Operational Psychiatry in Operation Enduring Freedom

Appendix 3: Good or Bad News? Media Coverage of Soldiers: Focus on Behavioral Health in Iraq During Operation Iraqi Freedom 05-07

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Index