A recent meta-analysis found a large overall effect size (g = 0.78) for the association between PTSD and suicidality, and this link was significant for both suicidal ideation and suicide attempts, across different trauma samples (e.g., combat veterans, physical/sexual abuse, natural disasters) and in clinical and non-clinical samples [ 91].
Both studies were funded by the film director David Lynch's foundation, which offers Transcendental Meditation training to veterans, victims of abuse, and other at-risk populations.
Both studies were funded by the film director David Lynch's foundation, which offers Transcendental Meditation training to veterans, victims of abuse, and other at-risk populations.
Meanwhile, the public record shows that many for-profit colleges deceive and abuse veterans, luring them into high-priced, low-quality programs and leaving them deep in debt and without improved job prospects.
Among HIV-infected veterans a substance abuse diagnosis was associated with increased non-VA use (OR = 1.34 [95% CI: 1.14, 1.58]).
This suggests that the Anonymized-Envelope method either reduces under selection of veterans with sexual abuse histories or optimizes more "honest" reporting among those who have such histories or both compared to the Anonymous-Postcard method.
Last January, a city court judge in Buffalo, Robert T. Russell, noticed a surge of recent veterans with substance-abuse and mental-health problems in the city's courtrooms.
In the breach, a few states, including California, Connecticut and Minnesota, have passed laws or begun programs to encourage alternative sentences, often including treatment, for veterans with substance-abuse and mental-health problems.
Court dockets and jail cells aren't clogged with veterans who've abused drugs or alcohol; those veterans are out on probation and in treatment.
In groups of five or six, we read the case studies and formulate responses for various situations: a violent veteran in a mall, a domestic abuse incident, a veteran assigned a menial job by a demeaning supervisor, a veteran fighting with his parents with whom he lives, a road rage incident, and a depressed veteran possibly going "postal".
