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Thinking you might like to see a therapist? Therapy can be a helpful and life-changing experience…that is, if you find the right therapist. There are free or low cost options available to service members and veterans on base, as well as options available in the community that your insurance may cover. But how do you even find the right therapist for you? Here are a few tips to think...
Worried about your kids coping with your deployment? The good news is many military youth handle a parent’s deployment with amazing resiliency and strength. Even so, increased stress, lots of anxiety, and more responsibilities due to a parent being gone can really add up. A new Department of Defense website, MilitaryKidsConnect.org, has...
"Why can't I feel anymore? I just want to feel something strongly, either good or bad...happy or sad." - Veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
When people think of depression they often think of sadness. When people think of PTSD they often think...
Some couples don’t have sex on their wedding night. After a day full of stress, uncomfortable clothes, extended family and free-flowing alcohol, many people just need to go to sleep. Sex after deployment can be a lot like wedding-night-sex: A lot of anticipation, but not much enjoyment. Just like weddings, those first days home can be exhausting.
Even after settling into a routine,...
Dr. Karl O. "Skip" Moe, PhD, is the Chief of Staff for the National Center for Telehealth and Technology.
We believe “The Holidays” should be joy, fun, good cheer, and enjoyment. Many have high hopes for both the holiday season and the year to follow. The reality is often increased fatigue, pressure...
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| Real Warriors www.realwarriors.net The Real Warriors Campaign is an initiative launched by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) to promote the processes of building resilience, facilitating recovery and supporting reintegration of returning service members, veterans and their families.  | Sesame Workshop www.sesameworkshop.org/initiatives/emotion/tlc Sesame Street Workshop’s Talk, Listen, Connect and Family Connections are multimedia initiative that guides military families through multiple challenges, such as deployments, homecomings, and changes that occur when a parent comes home.  | My Healthevet www.myhealth.va.gov Sesame Street Workshop’s Talk, Listen, Connect and Family Connections are multimedia initiative that guides military families through multiple challenges, such as deployments, homecomings, and changes that occur when a parent comes home.  | National Center for PTSD www.ptsd.va.gov The National Center for PTSD is a center of excellence for research and education on the prevention, understanding, and treatment of PTSD. The center has seven divisions across the country.  | Defense Centers of Excellence www.dcoe.health.mil The National Center for PTSD is a center of excellence for research and education on the prevention, understanding, and treatment of PTSD. The center has seven divisions across the country.  | National Center for Telehealth and Technology t2health.org The National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2) researches, develops, evaluates, and deploys new and existing technologies for Psychological Health (PH) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) across the Department of Defense (DoD). T2 is a component center of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury.  | Deployment Health Clinical Center www.pdhealth.mil The Deployment Health Clinical Center (DHCC) aims to improve deployment-related health by providing caring assistance and medical advocacy for military personnel and families with deployment-related health concerns. DHCC serves as a catalyst and resource center for the continuous improvement of deployment-related healthcare across the military healthcare system and the Center is a component of the Defense Center of Excellence (DCoE) for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury.  | Center for Deployment Psychology deploymentpsych.org The Center for Deployment Psychology aims to promote the education of psychologists and other behavioral health specialists about issues pertaining to the deployment of military personnel. The CDP is a tri-service center funded by Congress to train military and civilian psychologists, psychology interns/residents, and other behavioral health professionals to provide high quality deployment-related behavioral health services to military personnel and their families.  | Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress www.centerforthestudyoftraumaticstress.org The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) is dedicated to advancing trauma-informed knowledge, leadership and methodologies. The Center’s work addresses a wide scope of trauma exposure from the consequences of combat, operations other than war, terrorism, natural and human-made disasters, and public health threats. CSTS is a part of Uniformed Services University (USU), and its Department of Psychiatry, as well as a partnering center of the Defense Centers of Excellence (DCoE) for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury.  | Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center www.dvbic.org The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) serves active duty military, their beneficiaries, and veterans with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) through state-of-the-art clinical care, innovative clinical research initiatives and educational programs. DVBIC fulfills this mission through ongoing collaboration with military, VA and civilian health partners, local communities, families and individuals with TBI. DVBIC is a component center of the Defense Centers of Excellence (DCoE) for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury.  | National Intrepid Center of Excellence www.dcoe.health.mil The National Intrepid Center of Excellence is an advanced facility dedicated to the research, diagnosis and treatment of military personnel and Veterans suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI) and psychological health challenges.  | U.S. Department of Defense www.defense.gov The mission of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country. The DoD engages in war-fighting, humanitarian aid, peacekeeping, disaster relief, and homeland security. The Department is currently headed by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and is headquartered at the Pentagon.  | Military Health System www.health.mil America’s Military Health System (MHS) is a unique partnership of medical educators, medical researchers, and healthcare providers and their support personnel worldwide. The MHS is prepared to respond anytime, anywhere with comprehensive medical capability to military operations, natural disasters and humanitarian crises around the globe, and to ensure delivery of world-class healthcare to all DoD service members, retirees, and their families. The MHS promotes a fit, healthy and protected force by reducing non-combat losses, optimizing healthy behavior and physical performance, and providing casualty care.  |  | |