"The growing number of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increases the risk of domestic violence and its impact on families and children in communities in the United States," said Monica Mathieu, Ph.D., a veteran mental health experts and senior lecturer Department of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. "Treatment of Domestic Violence is very different from post-traumatic stress disorder. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), psychiatric care and treatment of PTSD, but these services must be combined with the specialized agencies, domestic violence intervention program of enforcement and for veterans from participating in the aggression against the behavior of couples and families. "Mathieu and Peter Hovmand, Ph.D., an expert of domestic violence and assistant professor of social work at the University of Washington, will combine their research interests, and we will work for the community to develop prevention strategies to combat this new problem Public Health.
"The increase in the incidence of cranial trauma and substance abuse in connection with post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans presented some unique problems for the community response to domestic violence," said Hovmand.
"The community response to domestic violence should be adapted to the growing number of veterans with PTSD. They are veterans with young families and older veterans with chronic mental disorders."
Even if the demographic structure of population changes, as a veteran of World War II veterans reach their 80's and 90-ies, youth and veterans of the completion of service in Iraq and Afghanistan, the number of living veterans in the United States military strikes. Current estimates indicate that there are 23,816,000 veterans.
Mathieu said that evidence-based psychological treatment programs can be a great resource for physicians to learn to recognize and treat symptoms of PTSD. Nevertheless, the identification of violent behavior among veterans with active symptoms of PTSD may be difficult and may require counseling and referral to domestic violence experts.
During the investigation, VA suggests that male veterans with PTSD in two to three times more likely than veterans without PTSD involved in intimate partner violence, and is likely to be included in the legal system.
"The community violence prevention agencies and services that are veterans of the treatment plan to cope with the aggression of conduct," said Hovmand.
"Veterans need to have multiple suppliers to coordinate assistance available to them, and each vendor is working on the treatment goal. Kommunalnogo coordinated response to this kind of law enforcement agencies, courts, social service agencies, community activists and advocates for women to address the problem of domestic violence. These efforts, the victim and offender accountability of security by promoting intercultural exchange and communication.
"Veteran's Day is an excellent reminder that we need to coordinate the services provided by VA and the community to ensure that our veterans and their families receive the services they need when they need it," Mathieu and Hovmand said.
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