Veterans Resilience Project
Locally in Minnesota a resource that is available to veterans is Veteran Resilience Project (VRP). VRP works with veterans to turn their trauma they have been through into growth (Project, 2016). Through this resource veterans are offered 12 free sessions of EMDR (Project, 2016). This program offers 100% confidentiality to their patients, realizing that PTSD is very serious and life changing for the veterans, which they want to acknowledge and not take away from them. In knowing that this is very serious the people of VRP respect each veteran and treat them as equals instead of “one of them”, referring to them as being a victim of PTSD. They believe in equality and dignity of a person at VRP. This program also will use their existing veterans
…show more content…
A study shows that nearly ⅓ of the troops arriving home are meeting criteria for brain injury, major depression, and PTSD and only half of them are seeking treatment; additionally, of that half seeking treatment only half of them are receiving care that is at the minimally adequate level (Kuehn, 2009). Among the veterans returning home from duty, whether they seek help or not, suicide is a very prominent problem that ties into the need for better mental health services and treatment options. From 2004 to 2008 the annual number of suicides rose from 67 to 128 just among soldiers in active duty Army, Army reserve, and Army National Guard, meaning that there are many more unaccounted for here due to the other branches in the United States Military not being apart of this statistic (Kuehn, 2009). This research study is significant because it will enable practitioners and researchers to study EMDR procedure more; in addition, this procedure could certainly be an effective method in treating veterans suffering from …show more content…
With this research, some issues that could have potential to arise are: lack of understanding in regards to the consent form and/or lack of continuing consent throughout the research, lack of understanding the difference between anonymity and confidentiality, thus leading to a breach in what information, if any, is shared and what is not, cultural differences and knowing what questions are/are not acceptable to ask as well as participants desire to share personal information and/or war stories and respecting them and their decision, and appropriate and equal
A study shows that nearly ⅓ of the troops arriving home are meeting criteria for brain injury, major depression, and PTSD and only half of them are seeking treatment; additionally, of that half seeking treatment only half of them are receiving care that is at the minimally adequate level (Kuehn, 2009). Among the veterans returning home from duty, whether they seek help or not, suicide is a very prominent problem that ties into the need for better mental health services and treatment options. From 2004 to 2008 the annual number of suicides rose from 67 to 128 just among soldiers in active duty Army, Army reserve, and Army National Guard, meaning that there are many more unaccounted for here due to the other branches in the United States Military not being apart of this statistic (Kuehn, 2009). This research study is significant because it will enable practitioners and researchers to study EMDR procedure more; in addition, this procedure could certainly be an effective method in treating veterans suffering from …show more content…
With this research, some issues that could have potential to arise are: lack of understanding in regards to the consent form and/or lack of continuing consent throughout the research, lack of understanding the difference between anonymity and confidentiality, thus leading to a breach in what information, if any, is shared and what is not, cultural differences and knowing what questions are/are not acceptable to ask as well as participants desire to share personal information and/or war stories and respecting them and their decision, and appropriate and equal