The Praeger Handbook of Veterans' Health: History, Challenges, Issues, and Developments [4 volumes]

by Thomas W. Miller (Editor)

Overview

This four-volume set provides a history of veterans' healthcare that examines programs of care and veterans' special needs, and offers insight into future directions for veteran's healthcare in the 21st century.

This comprehensive contribution to understanding veterans' healthcare uniquely draws on a national and international cadre of scientists and practitioners, both within the Department of Veterans Affairs and specialists beyond the institution, providing a matrix view of veterans' healthcare, past, present, and future, both nationally and internationally. This work will prove an essential reference set that examines and identifies veterans' healthcare through the first decade of the 21st century, invaluable to health and psychology researchers and students, policymakers, social workers, and veterans.

The Praeger Handbook of Veterans' Health: History, Challenges, Issues, and Developments is organized to cover four key elements. Volume I presents a history of veterans' healthcare, the various veteran's eras, and the global healthcare provided to our veterans. Volume II examines several of the programs of care and veterans' special needs. Volume III is devoted to the several aspects of mental health care, treatment, and rehabilitation services offered to veterans through the healthcare system. The last volume offers insights into future directions for veterans' healthcare.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798216131595
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/20/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1664
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	7 - 17 Years

About the Author

Thomas W. Miller, PhD, ABPP, is professor emeritus, senior research scientist at the Center for Health Intervention and Prevention at the University of Connecticut, and former tenured professor in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine at the University of Kentucky.
Thomas W. Miller is a professor emeritus and retired clinical service chief as well as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, and Royal Society of Medicine.

Table of Contents

VOLUME IV
FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN VETERANS' HEALTHCARE
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Jacob B. Gadd
Editor's Foreword
Part I Dedicated Centers for Veterans' Healthcare
1 Centers of Excellence in the Department of Veterans Affairs
Thomas W. Miller
2 Organization Development in the Department of Veterans Affairs
Katerine Osatuke, Jill Draime, Scott C. Moore, Dee Ramsel, Andrew A. Meyer, Sharon Barnes, Linda W. Belton, and Sue R. Dyrenforth
3 Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Patient Safety: First Do No Harm
Joseph F. Murphy and James P. Bagian
4 The National Center for PTSD
Matthew J. Friedman
5 Pain Management in the Veterans Health Administration
Kathryn LaChappelle, Samantha Boris-Karpel, and Robert D. Kerns
Part II New Directions in Veterans' Healthcare
6 Achieving Clinical Integration: Observations from the Veterans' Healthcare System
Kenneth W. Kizer
7 VA Healthcare System: A Potential Model for a National Plan
Said A. Ibrahim, David S. Macpherson, and Michael E. Moreland
8 Telehealth Applications to Underserved Veterans: The Right Care, in the Right Place, at the Right Time
Jennifer A. Wood, Thomas W. Miller, and Russell Hagy
9 Suicide Prevention through a National Hotline within the Veterans Health Administration
Thomas W. Miller and Janet Kemp
10 Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals
Terrie Price
11 Ethicolegal Issues in Veterans' Healthcare
Steven Nisenbaum, Thomas W. Miller, Sheila O'Keefe, and Dennis Norman
12 The Story of Give an Hour™
Barbara Van Dahlen
13 The Veterans' Healthcare System's Path to Excellence
Edmund J. Nightingale
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Index