Mental Health

Group Therapy to Treat Substance Use and Traumatic Symptoms in Female Veterans

Women are underdiagnosed and underserved in substance abuse treatment programs. This author offers possible reasons—and suggests potential...

Reliving the traumatic event is a major component of traditional PTSD treatment. Recent evidence, however, suggests that this method may be...

Clinicians practicing in rural community-based outpatient clinics may be at greater risk for violating provider-patient boundaries than their...

Primary care providers are taking on more responsibility for mental health care than ever before. This model uses psychiatric consultation on...

Same-day access systems have shown promise in primary care practices, but can they work for mental health care? Here's the experience from one VA...

Besides driving up health care costs, patterns of unnecessary hospitalization hurt patients by delaying appropriate intervention. This case...