Objectives Paper Department of Veterans Affairs is comprised of three administrations‚ Veterans Health and Benefits Administration‚ and National Cemetery Administration. Although all three serve Veterans and their families‚ VHA is the largest of the three that work to meet their health care needs. With more than 54 VA medical organizations‚ rarely‚ two functions are the same‚ however‚ the mission‚ is the same for each of them (“United States Department of Veterans Affairs‚” 2014).
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Organizational View of Vet Centers and Readjustment Counseling Services of the Department of Veterans Affairs Rob Fortner University of Phoenix With the end of the war in Iraq and the pending drawdown of forces in Afghanistan‚ the United States will see a substantial increase in the amount of combat veterans in the civilian world. At current there are approximately 300‚000 veterans in the United States who suffer the effects from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by combat operations.
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Five million people suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder from the ages of eighteen to fifty-four in the United States in a given year. Fourteen percent of those people are military personnel. Post-traumatic stress disorder‚ or PTSD‚ is a mental effect on the brain after going through trauma or a life-threatening event. I am familiar with PTSD in military personnel because my dad had this mental effect when I was growing up. PTSD is a serious mental effect that affects a lot of troops who need
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posttraumatic stress disorder among war veterans. Paranoia‚ hopelessness‚ depression‚ impulsiveness and recklessness are symptoms that are present in many soldiers returning from war (NIMH‚ n.d.). Upon reintegration into society‚ both female and male marines and soldiers often feel detached and have problems showing intimacy‚ compassion‚ and even having sex. Studies conducted by the U.S Defense Department and the New England Journal of Medicine report similar findings‚ which state that 1 in 6 soldiers and marines
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is becoming an ever increasing problem in today’s military. This disorder is nothing new and has affected veterans from World War I‚ World War II‚ the Korean War‚ the Vietnam War and Desert Shield/Desert Storm. There are particularly good descriptions of posttraumatic stress symptoms in the medical literature on combat veterans of World War II and on Holocaust survivors. (Veterans Affairs Fact Sheet‚ 2006). But with the many deployments in the past several years to Iraq and Afghanistan‚ with many
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Stress Disorder: Veteran Unemployment/VA Programming In April of last year‚ the Army launched a "Hire a Veteran" campaign aimed at debunking the myth that all combat veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are somehow emotionally damaged and therefore unstable. An estimated 5%-20% of the veterans who served since 9/11 have PTSD. The Department of Veterans Affairs reports 117‚000 diagnosed cases and 1 in 3 employers see PTSD as an impediment to hiring any veteran (Zoroya‚ USA Today)
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Military Veterans face many life changing stressors while away on active duty as well as when they return home. To cope with the stress‚ drugs and alcohol become a way to self-medicate and cover the unseen pain. Substance abuse‚ because of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)‚ is a coping mechanism for some of the nation’s Veterans‚ but with proper medical attention‚ treatment is possible. PTSD can occur after a traumatic event‚ in which there are four types of symptoms: reliving the event or
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and Afghanistan. It’s become a debilitating and all too common disorder that is in dire need for the necessary aid before it manifests and becomes too late for anyone to help. It’s been an ongoing power struggle where the United States military and the Department of Veterans Affairs has not adequately diagnosed‚ treated‚ or supported their soldiers who suffer greatly from the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)‚ and the consequence that follow after fighting for a country that have proven
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Afghanistan coming to a close there are over 2‚300‚000 veterans that have served in the War on Terror. (Martinez. Bingham) Many of these veterans would not have survived without recent advances in medicine. With that being said‚ their wounds are much more difficult and expensive to treat than any other previous generation of veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that the cost for providing medical care and disability for returning veterans is between $589 billion and $984 billion. (Lifetime
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HOMELESS VETERANS CAN BECOME PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY Homelessness is a major social issue facing our society today. Homelessness among United States veterans is of particular concern to me because I understand some of the pressures facing vets upon returning to civilian life. Given the Iraq and Afghanistan tours and number of soldiers returning from multiple tours in “hell”‚ it’s no wonder the number of homeless vets has more than doubled in the past two years. (Zoroya‚ 2012) Serious
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