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Depression Taking Toll on Returning U.S. Vets
Date:8/18/2007

re is to gently encourage the veteran to seek treatment, to offer to be involved," Sayers said. "These offers may need to be repeated. It's often not useful to insist or push the veteran to get treatment, but to just make it easy for them to seek treatment if they sense that it is what [they] need."

He said the Veterans Administration does have good outreach and treatment programs in place, to help soldiers and their family members who might suffer from these types of problems.

In the meantime, Gibbs said, American families, for the most part, are winning "the war at home."

"Military families do a tremendous job in getting through these very tough experiences -- most of them do a wonderful job," she said. "These experiences are understandably quite tough, and this kind of study shows the importance of family members getting help when they need it."

More information

For more on mental health services available to veterans, visit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.



SOURCES: Steven Sayers, Ph.D., assistant professor, psychology in psychiatry and medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and clinical psychologist, Mental Illness Research, Education & Clinical Center, Philadelphia VA Medical Center; Deborah Gibbs, M.S.P.H., senior analyst, Children and Families Program, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, N.C., Aug. 17, 2007, presentation, American Psychological Association annual meeting, San Francisco


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