Haymarket affair

Between 2012 and 2013, the number of student veterans in the U.S. doubled, and has since been growing at a rate of 20% per year. The flood of veterans seeking higher education has left many schools playing catch up in order to understand their growing demographic. In 2009, Penn State published a video on their website entitled “The Worrisome Veteran”. The short video was meant as a training guide to show teachers how to manage student veterans. The video depicts student veterans as intimidating,…

In an article written by Lori Daniels, James Boehnlein, and Phillip McCallion about post-traumatic stress disorder, the practice of life review has shown to significantly lower post-traumatic stress disorder among aging veterans suffering from the mental disability. Awareness of this disorder has gradually increased since veterans returned from the Vietnam War, but there has yet to be a breakthrough in how to properly treat post-traumatic stress disorder. The authors state that the effects of…

attached to Veterans Court Diversion programs and that are discharging from Veterans Affairs inpatient rehab facilities. We will provide job placement for our veterans upon certificate completion. Valor Doors Foundations' objective is to be a win-win for both veteran and society. • While the veteran is performing OJT in home repair; the communities are being revamped. Our objective…

For years there have been soldiers who have been injured in the line of battle while defending our country. Some have been injured to a point where they do not have the ability to walk or have lost limbs in the line of duty. Despite the benefits veterans are currently eligible for and receiving, the Veteran’s Administration should be doing more for veterans. For some veterans it takes them several months just to get checked up at the VA. “Hundreds of veterans have waited months for medical…

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Current Events In the beginning of September, Jeffrey Johnson was shot and killed by police. A few days before his death, he and his wife had got into an argument and he went to stay in a motel for a few nights. After a few days in the hotel, Jeffrey texted his wife some text messages that she believed were suicidal. She called the police and they found him locked in his room firing a gun. After the police tried to get in, he jumped out the window and into a car. He drove this car to a…

people face a traumatic event at some point in their lives but , “About 60% of men and 50% of women experience at least one traumatic event. Of those who do, about 8% of men and 20% of women will develop PTSD” says the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. When Allie died he was still just a young teenager so how would PTSD affect a kid? The National Institute of Mental Health answers the question by telling the…

The psychological risks of combat for returning soldiers Over the past 20 years, more Australian soldiers died from suicide than those who died at war. Losing a peer is often hard for militaries. Even though psychological help is offered to help them, many refuse it. For veterans, it is not manly to seek mental health care. In fact, men are supposed to be strong enough to recover from war by themselves. One of the main psychological problems, post-traumatic stress disorder, consist of…

delay of only a few months. With the uprising of this disorder the government has been able to update their research and provide more care to the veterans post war (PTSD, National Center for PTSD). Now, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,…

transformation to a primary care-based structure to render a compendious treatment to veterans across their lifetime (Kearney, Post, Pomerantz & Zeiss, 2014). Predominantly, veterans looking for healthcare can be seen and managed at a non-Veterans Affair (VA) medical setting (Guide for Providers, 2014). Mental…