FW: Help Raise Awareness for June 27th: PTSD Awareness Day

[Wangen, Lonnie L.]

Please see attached. Great story for your news section.

 

June 27^th is National PTSD awareness day. This was introduced by ND Senator Kent Conrad in reference to a ND National Guardsman.

 

 

 

http://sftt.org/news/senate-unanimously-approves-national-ptsd-awareness-day/

 

http://armylive.dodlive.mil/index.php/2011/06/national-ptsd-awareness-day/

 

 

Lonnie Wangen

Commissioner

ND DVA

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From: National Center for PTSD [mailto:veteran...@public.govdelivery.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 11:03 AM
To: Wangen, Lonnie L.
Subject: Help Raise Awareness for June 27th: PTSD Awareness Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In This Issue Feature Topic For Providers For VA Providers Research at the Center PTSD in the News June 2012 Issue Subscribe Forward this to others so they can subscribe to the PTSD Monthly Update or other products by the VA's National Center for PTSD. Feature Topic June 27th is PTSD Awareness Day Raise Your PTSD Awareness People with PTSD - whether they are civilians or military - are our neighbors, friends and co-workers. Be prepared to help them. In honor of PTSD Awareness Day – June 27th: ·         Take just 5 minutes and visit www.ptsd.va.gov to learn something new about PTSD. ·         Visit our Raise PTSD Awareness section to learn how you can help. Each week, meet a different Veteran who talks about living with PTSD and how treatment turned his/her life around. How much do you know about trauma and PTSD? TRUE or FALSE? Test yourself: 1.     Up to 25% of US adults go through trauma in their lifetime. 2.     PTSD is curable. 3.     Since returning from war in Iraq, my friend has nightmares about when she was there. She has PTSD. 4.     Screening positive for PTSD means you need treatment. Answers: 1.     False. During their life 50-60% of US adults will experience at least one trauma. How common is PTSD? 2.     True. We now have effective PTSD treatments that work for most people, improving their symptoms and changing their lives. 3.     False. Nightmares are common following trauma. If symptoms affect her day to day life or don't fade over time, she should be assessed for PTSD. (11–20% of recent Veterans have PTSD). 4.     False. A screen is a list of questions to tell if you might have PTSD. Screening positive for something means you should be evaluated further by a professional. How is PTSD Measured? NEW Products Online ·         Meet Veterans who have lived with PTSD at AboutFace ·         Read What's Stopping You? Overcome Barriers to Care and Help for Family and Friends. Thank you for taking the time to learn a bit more about PTSD. Please forward this on to someone else to help raise PTSD awareness! And remember to visit www.ptsd.va.gov. back to top For Providers Continuing Education We are discovering more about PTSD. Research continues to reveal findings that can help those who have been through trauma. What was taught even a few years ago might not include the very latest on PTSD treatment. VA and DoD recently updated the best guidance we have for treating PTSD. Thirteen of our PTSD 101 courses cover this VA/DoD PTSD Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG). Free CE/CME credits available for many 101 courses, including some in the CPG series! Learn more on best practices: ·         View our PTSD continuing education opportunities, including the PTSD 101 curriculum. ·         Sign-up to stay current on PTSD developments. ·         Read more on treatment: PTSD Professional Section. NEW PTSD 101 Courses for Providers ·         Group Treatment for PTSD ·         Revised: Managing PTSD and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders  For VA Providers Not sure if the patient you are seeing has PTSD? Seeking advice on how to use exposure therapy with a tough case? Call the FREE VA PTSD Consultation Program at 866-948-7880. We are here to help. National Center for PTSD staff provide you advice and consultation on PTSD assessment, therapy and medications. NOT with VA? VA contract providers can also use this free service. Community providers who need help with getting a Veteran into VA PTSD care are also welcome to call or email ptsdc...@va.gov. back to top Research at the Center Some important PTSD findings this year: ·         Cognitive Processing and Prolonged Exposure therapies resulted in lasting changes in PTSD for rape victims. Read more. (PDF) ·         Female service members serving in Afghanistan and Iraq may be as resilient to combat-related stress as men. Read more. (PDF) ·         Among PTSD patients with SRI-resistant symptoms, treatment with risperidone vs placebo did not reduce PTSD symptoms. Read more. (PDF) back to top PTSD in the News PTSD or PTSI? Dr. Matthew Friedman, National Center for PTSD, argues it would do more harm than good to adopt the term posttraumatic stress injury (PTSI) as a replacement for PTSD. Read more.* Got Your Six. Members of the entertainment industry unite to support Veterans' health, employment, and wellbeing in this campaign. Read more.* From the War Zone to the Home Front Series: Time magazine calls this online lecture series "a timely example of clinicians' hunger for education on identifying and treating" traumatic stress in service members. Read more* or Register. Thank you for spending your time to learn about PTSD. Be sure to see our special feature: Raise PTSD Awareness. Each week in June, a Veteran talks about personal experiences with PTSD and how treatment helps. Learn how you can help too. Please encourage your colleagues and others to subscribe to the PTSD Monthly Update! Sincerely, The Staff of the National Center for PTSD back to top Produced by VA's National Center for PTSD - Executive Division Visit our website: www.ptsd.va.gov *Links will take you outside of the Department of Veterans Affairs website to a non government site. VA does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of these linked websites.

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