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  • Title: [ISRAELI MILITARY PSYCHIATRY: CHALLENGES AND ACHIEVEMENTS].
    Author: Ginat K, Fruchter E, Lubin G, Knobler HY.
    Journal: Harefuah; 2019 Jul; 158(7):473-477. PubMed ID: 31339249.
    Abstract:
    In this article, we have attempted to summarize the achievements and the challenges of the mental health department (MHD) of the IDF Medical Core from the past four decades, since its initiation. We approach this wide scope question through the investigation of the MHD according to the perspective of its main fields of endeavor. These domains are widely arrayed. In this paper, we chose to focus on the following: the unique training of the mental health officers; the initial psychological screening of soldiers - from recruitment to discharge; the mental health treatment of soldiers and officers, and the life-time treatment of combat post traumatic (PTSD) patients; the development of combat PTSD diagnosis, treatment and prevention; the continuous prevention of soldiers' suicides; the prevention of psychiatric hospitalizations; and the participation of the MHD in research and in the development of new treatment modalities. In the writing of this paper we relied on the accumulative experience of the MHD and the historic perspective of the last four commanders of the Mental Health Department of the IDF.
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