Mental Health

When you contact, communicate and coordinate with our VA recruiters, a career at VA can be at your fingertips.

With precision medicine, disease prevention and treatment are tailored to an individual’s clinical, lifestyle and genetic information.

In this episode Pearl McGee-Vincent discusses PTSD resources for family and loved ones with Dr. Steven Sayers, director of Coaching into Care.

When harassment is repeated and recurrent, it can be tough on the body. It adds up over time and can affect wellbeing. VA provides support.

The Veterans Crisis Line (1-800-273-8255) continues to expand and evolve to find the most effective ways to serve.

In this episode of PTSD Bytes, Pearl McGee-Vincent discusses crisis support resources with Dr. Lisa Brenner, rehabilitation psychologist.

NHRVS is the brainchild of Dr. Pietrzak, director of the Translational Psychiatric Epidemiology Laboratory of the VA National Center for PTSD in West Haven, Connecticut. NHRVS―called “Nerves”―is a nationally representative survey administered to Veterans both inside and outside the VA health care system.

You have questions about the Veterans Crisis Line; we have answers. You are not alone and the Veterans Crisis Line is here to support you.

The researchers estimated the cost of PTSD at $232.2 billion for 2018, the latest year for which data were available at the time of the study. They called for increased awareness of PTSD, more effective therapies, and the expansion of evidence-based strategies to “reduce the large clinical and economic burden” of that mental health condition.

Clinical psychologist Pearl McGee-Vincent discusses trauma with Dr. Debra Kaysen, research scientist at the National Center for PTSD.

Chronic pelvic pain is a common condition in women Veterans. VA health care providers can identify causes and provide treatment options.

She led a case review that highlighted missed opportunities to screen a Veteran for suicidal ideation—thoughts of taking one’s own life—and to provide appropriate follow-up care during an emergency department (ED) visit. The case review, part of a larger study on ED care, appeared in the Journal of Emergency Nursing in November 2021.