To put it differently, CVT pertains on establishing via telecommunication pathways between patients and healthcare providers. As to the computer-generated program of VRET assist in treating diagnosed-PTSD military service members and Veterans by establishing a virtual reality- Based on military service members and Veterans wartime traumatic experiences. However, a fundamental that the CVT and VRET have in common are that even though both technologies demonstrate different purposes; the CVT and VRET accomplishes the ongoing mission of providing effective treatments and services to military service members of yesterday and today. Especially, when the ongoing mission includes providing accessible and comprehensive treatments and services to patients diagnosed with the mental health disorder of PTSD. To define the mental health disorder of PTSD, Charity Ann Seitz’s, Marissa A. Harrison’s, Senel Poyrazli’s, Tara Flickinger’s, and Maria Turkson’s article titled, Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Military Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Systematic Review, defines the psychological disorder. Accordingly, Seitz et. al. (2014) defines PTSD as developmental psychological disorder that increases the stress-level of individuals following a traumatic experiences or events he or she has experienced (p. 14). For example, traumatic …show more content…
On the other hand, the challenges of providing well-rounded mental health services has become one the recent challenges following a rapid increase in the use of mental health services since 2005. More specifically, in the United States Department of Veteran Affairs’ document titled, VA Mental Health Services’ Public Report of November 2014, highlights the surge in the percentage of patients who received mental health care between the years 2005 and 2013. To exemplify, the United States Department of Veteran Affairs (2014) insisted that an increase of sixty-three percent of Veterans received mental health care treatment from Veteran Affairs’ hospitals and clinics (p. 14). To conclude, according to the United States Department of Veteran Affairs (2014), “Not only is this rate of mental health services use higher than in the general population…it also has grown rapidly during the past decade” (p. 4). Above all, mental health services are noticeably essential as an increase in patients who need treatment regarding the state of his or her mental health disorder and/or illness for the past decade. For the most part, offering a wide-range of mental health treatments is indeed a notable challenge,