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Inpatient treatment of war‐related posttraumatic stress disorder: A 20‐year perspective
Author(s) -
Rosenheck Robert,
Fontana Alan,
Errera Paul
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.2490100306
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , posttraumatic stress , government (linguistics) , public health , accountability , psychology , psychiatry , clinical psychology , political science , medicine , nursing , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science , law
These papers show that long‐stay inpatient PTSD programs provide treatment that is quite different from other programs but that they are neither as effective, from a psychometric perspective, nor as helpful, from the veterans' subjective perspective, as has been expected. VA treatment of PTSD is changing its focus and is being influenced by three distinct societal forces, in addition to data from studies like these: (1) the continuing effort of American society to come to terms with its Vietnam War experience; (2) the crisis of U.S. health care costs; and (3) the emergence of a movement to “re‐invent” government and to increase public accountability through performance data.