How VA clinicians treat veterans’ PTSD while managing suicide risk, using shared decisions, safety planning, and phase-based trauma therapies.
|Slideshows|June 23, 2017
Disaster Check Points for Psychiatrists
Author(s)Anthony T. Ng, MD
Most individuals who have experienced a disaster-related event or epidemic are at increased risk for distress behaviors that have equally significant and chronic consequences. Here’s what psychiatrists need to know.
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