Pentagon’s Efforts to Curb Mental-Health Woes Apparently Falling Short

Elizabeth Prewitt PACEsConnection writer 2/21/1412:41 PM

Outside report says there is little evidence to show they make much difference

By Mark Thompson, TIME.com

The Pentagon didn’t actually win the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now a prestigious federal panel has concluded it’s also not winning its decade-long battle to shield troops’ brains and minds from mental-health woes stemming from those conflicts.

There is little evidence that the military’s so-called “resilience, prevention, and reintegration” programs, designed to beef up soldiers’ defenses against the mind-ravages of war, have had any beneficial effect, concluded the 291-page report released Thursday by an Institute of Medicine panel.

http://swampland.time.com/2014/02/21/pentagons-efforts-to-curb-mental-health-woes-apparently-falling-short/#ixzz2tzFdQhFg

Link to report and two-page “report at a glance”:

http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2014/Preventing-Psychological-Disorders-in-Service-Members-and-Their-Families.aspx

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