Combat Stress (The Ex‐Services Mental Welfare Society), Veterans and Psychological Trauma

Fletcher, Keron

doi:10.1002/9780470512364.ch5

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“…Organisations such as Combat Stress (www. combatstress.org.uk) argue that there is an iceberg of untreated morbidity among the veteran community, in particular a delay of more than 14 years between release from service and first contact with mental health services (Fletcher 2007). It is difficult to know to what extent this is true.…”

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What civilian psychiatrists should know about military psychiatry

Deahl

Siddiquee

2013

Adv. psychiatr. treat

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What civilian psychiatrists should know about military psychiatry

Deahl

Siddiquee

2013

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“…Recent internal audit data suggests that the majority of the service veterans being helped by Combat Stress have markedly poor psychological and physical health, characterised by chronic and complex conditions and exacerbated by a wide range of social and economic conditions (Fletcher, 2007).…”

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Dual diagnosis in service veterans with post‐traumatic stress disorder and co‐existing substance misuse

Hill

Busuttil

2008

Advances in Dual Diagnosis

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Combat Stress, a charity that aims to meet the needs of veterans with psychological disability, often related to their service, is seeing growing demand for the care it offers. This paper explores the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder on veterans. In many cases, this is associated with subsequent substance misuse. In describing Combat Stress's approach to helping these individuals, it argue that mainstream and other non-statutory service providers should develop their screening and assessment services to help meet veterans' needs.

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“…Secondly, the delayed onset or presentation of symptoms means that apparently new cases of combat related mental health problems may fail to present for many years (e.g. In the UK there is a 14.1 year delay between discharge from military and presentation to specialist veterans mental health services) (Fletcher, 2007) and it is well established that 10% of PTSD cases are delayed in onset or presentation (Utzon-Frank et al, 2014). PTSD is but one of a number of Post Traumatic Disorders (PTD's).…”

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