Mental Health

A Veteran's wife shares the struggles of her family and how the Caregiver Program helped establish a support system for her.

To advance health care services, VA has utilized telemedicine to extend their reach. The open source Electronic Health Record, VistA, is one tool.

VA seeks to shift from an inpatient system to a continuum of health care. Focus is on home-based primary care, outpatient clinics, and telehealth services.

VA Medical Center volunteers experience issues with their 100% Unemployable status for mental health disability. A response from the VBA is requested.

PTSD can affect anyone exposed to a traumatic event. On PTSD Awareness Day it should be recognized that awareness and treatment of PTSD is crucial.

Joining Forces, an initiative launched by Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, has reached out through their Veterans Crisis Hotline PSAs.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is committed to helping and advocating for the Survivors of America's Veterans. Learn more about what they are doing.

Clinical Psychologist for the National Center for PTSD

Teams at VA’s National Center for PTSD and DoD’s National Center for Telehealth and Technology have collaborated to create a mobile phone application (app) to help Veterans and Service Members who have, or may have PTSD.

Joining Forces is a community-based effort to lessen the burden on military families through programs focused on mental health, jobs, homelessness and more.

When PTSD is discussed, it often refers to treatment after the wounds have happened. The Marine Corps wants to tackle combat stress on the field of battle.

Veteran Treatment Courts continue to spread across the country, welcomed by communities for their efforts to help Veterans in need.

Eleven Veterans, including a blind Veteran and three with missing legs, and ascended an 18,500-foot mountain in Nepal.