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Bobby Muller, help! Cross-posted from BlogHer.org: AP reports: Overwhelmed by the number of soldiers returning from war with mental problems, the Army is planning to hire more than 25 percent additional psychiatrists and other medical workers. As Moondanzer (her son is in law is in Iraq) writes on Moon's Rants and Raves And just ...

Today, a new study of starting salaries for college graduates showed upward trends, except in one field. What was the lowest paid field for recent college grads? SOCIAL WORK. Read more in the Washington Post. "Yet not every grad is a winner. The lowest-paid members of the class of 2007 will ...

Apropos to some posts and comments on how returning vets can get resources they need to cope with PTSD, Bobby Muller, head of Veterans for America, provided this excellent advice for those seeking information about how to handle PTSD: "We have a good resource guide up on our web site ...

A few weeks ago I wrote about Jonathan Schulze, a Marine who killed himself upon return from Iraq. "On January 11, 2007, accompanied by his parents, he went to the VA hospital in St. Cloud, Minnesota and told people at that VA facility that he was thinking of killing himself. They ...

Right now, I'm kind of the like the breathy young undergrad I never got to be (mostly because I was too busy being distracted), because, in grad school, I'm reading Carol Gilligan. I feel like I've discovered a new world, even when I'm reading a classic! Apologies to Carol Gilligan ...

Madeleine from Legal Momentum's new blog has a good post about working at non-profits. Women's non-profits in general are notorious for being hard places to stick out long term. As I think about a career working amongst needy clients in order to obtain a clinical licensure, sometimes I dread it. But ...

It's sometimes depressing to be a nascent mental health professional these days; federal research funding is decreasing, and on the treatment side, insurance providers increasingly favor something called "brief therapy," several sessions of cognitive-behavioral treatment to cure ills. In the military and Veterans Administration, however, decreased mental health services have ...

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