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Architecting the future telebehavioral health system of care in the United States Army
(2016-05-23)Charged by the Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff, the authors were members of a study to develop innovative recommendations for transforming the military enterprise to better manage post-traumatic stress and related ... -
Architecting the Future U.S. Military Psychological Health Enterprise via Policy and Procedure Analysis
(Military Medicine, 2015)Although researchers suggest that a systems approach is required to make meaningful advances in the U.S. psychological health care system for service members, limited research has considered such an approach. This research ... -
Army Cross Case Quantitative Analysis, 2010-2013
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A Conceptual Model of the Psychological Health System for U.S. Active Duty Service Members: An Approach to Inform Leadership and Policy Decision Making
(Military Medicine, 2013)The influence of individual-level factors such as pretraumatic risk and protective factors and the availability of unit-level and enterprise-level factors on psychological health outcomes have been previously considered ... -
Deployment Related Mental Health Care Seeking Behaviors in the U.S. Military and the Use of Telehealth to Mitigate THeir Impacts on Access to Care
(2016-05-23)Interviewees report that groups of service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan often require substantial amounts of mental health care, causing surges in demand at military hospitals. These hospitals have difficulty ... -
Depression and PTSD Co-Morbidity: What are We Missing?
(Journal of Depression and Anxiety, 2014)Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression comorbidity is highly common. Many hypotheses concerning this relation have been raised but the pertinent issues, including the wide clinical picture of this ... -
Developing the Embedded Behavioral Health Checklists
(2016-05-19)The Army Embedded Behavioral Health (EBH) model of care was designed to increase access to care and reduce stigma around care seeking by locating care at the point of need. The model makes the EBH clinic the nexus of ... -
A Dynamic Model of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for Military Personnel and Veterans
(PLOS One, 2016-10-07)Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) stands out as a major mental illness; however, little is known about effective policies for mitigating the problem. The importance and complexity of PTSD raise critical questions: What ... -
The Impact of Individual-, Unit-, and Enterprise-Level Factors on Psychological Health Outcomes: A System Dynamics Study of the U.S. Military
(2016-05-23)Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychological health issues have emerged as a signature pathology of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the full continuum of care in the U.S. military for ... -
Integration and the Performance of Large-scale Health Enterprises: Field Studies of Psychological Health Delivery Systems in the U.S. Military
(2016-05-23)Large-scale health enterprises comprise multiple organizations that provide programs and services for patients. Despite the interconnectedness of these systems there is a lack of empirical research documenting how these ... -
Model-Based Policy Analysis to Mitigate Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
(2016-05-24)A wide range of modeling methods have been used to inform health policies. In this chapter, we describe the use of three models for understanding the complexities of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a major mental ... -
Network Governance for the Provision of Behavioral Health Services
(2016-05-23)Under a charter from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the author participated in a study of the military's behavioral health system for the purpose of determining the means and effectiveness of that system for ... -
Performance Dynamics In Military Behavioral Health Clinics
(2016-05-23)The prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other related behavioral health conditions among active duty service members and their families has grown over 100% in the past six years and are ... -
Postraumatic Stress Disorder: Five Vicious Cycles that Inhibit Effective Treatment
(U.S. Army Medical Department journal, 2015-11)Despite a wide range of studies and medical progress, it seems that we are far from significantly mitigating the problem of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The problem has major social and behavioral components. ...