Tagged With "Veteran-focused"
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Consequences of Military Sexual Trauma for Perinatal Mental Health: How Do We Improve Care for Pregnant Veterans with a History of Sexual Trauma?
Sharing our recent editorial which includes a call for TIC in maternity care: "Nevertheless, there are ways in which VA may be able to augment the maternity care pregnant veterans receive to empower and facilitate more trauma-informed approaches to obstetric care. These include investing in programs to ensure peer support, possibly through use of mobile health technology; facilitating collaboration with maternity care providers through provision of handheld/electronic maternity records...
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Trauma-informed primary care for residents
Andrea Garroway recently joined TIHCER. She published the following article describing a brief interdisciplinary intervention to train medical residents in trauma-informed primary care at a Veterans Affairs hospital. See attached article. "We generated a trauma- informed care curriculum involving five 1- hour didactic sessions, 10- minute group reflection regarding patient interactions prior to each didactic session, and optional patient care observation and feedback."
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Re: Trauma-informed primary care for residents
Hello TIHCER Members, Please let us know when you publish an article, book chapter, etc, record a presentation, have an experience and reflections to share with us, or you want to pose a question to the community for input and feedback. This is our trauma-informed care learning community and we want to hear from you! Let us know about your successes so that we can celebrate and learn from you!
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Re: Consequences of Military Sexual Trauma for Perinatal Mental Health: How Do We Improve Care for Pregnant Veterans with a History of Sexual Trauma?
Hi, yes of course! It would be an honor. Best, Megan
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Re: Consequences of Military Sexual Trauma for Perinatal Mental Health: How Do We Improve Care for Pregnant Veterans with a History of Sexual Trauma?
Dear Dr. Gerber, What an important message for those who are in the military or those who know someone in the military. May I copy (e.g. clone) this story to other communities on ACEs Connection - such as ACEs in Maternal Health ? Thank you very much for posting! Karen
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Re: Trauma-Informed Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
Thank you for posting @Ellen Goldstein and for your enduring kind support! The pdf is now available and attached.....
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Trauma-Informed Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
https://www.mdedge.com/fedprac/article/225184/coronavirus-updates/trauma-informed-telehealth-covid-19-era-and-beyond Background: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) entered the COVID-19 pandemic crisis with an existing and robust telehealth program, but it still faces a fundamental paradigm shift as most routine outpatient in-person care was converted to telehealth visits. Veterans are a highly trauma-exposed population, and VHA has long offered effective telemental health services.