June is PTSD Awareness Month, and the VA Augusta Health Care System is highlighting its Trauma Recovery Clinic and other comprehensive PTSD services available to veterans.
VA Augusta’s Trauma Recovery Clinic is an outpatient, specialty care mental health service that provides intensive treatment to Veterans who have experienced psychological trauma including, but not limited to the following: combat, childhood
abuse, sexual violence, physical violence and accidents, according to a news release from VA Augusta.
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Specialized services for women and men with military sexual trauma (MST) are also available. The Trauma Recovery Clinic is recovery-focused and strives to create an atmosphere of safety.
“Veterans facing PTSD should never have to go through it on their own,” said Dr. J. Richard Monroe, a top PTSD specialist and head of the Trauma-Recovery Clinic at VA Augusta. “When a veteran decides they’re ready to take steps toward healing, our clinic
provides proven, effective treatments to support their progress.”
(Read more: Augusta VA has top-ranked PTSD program)
VA Augusta’s Trauma-Recovery Clinic offers interventions such as Cognitive Processing Therapy, Exposure Therapy, Skills Training for Affective and Interpersonal Regulation, and Cognitive-Behavioral Conjoint Therapy. Through these and other
treatments, Veterans have an opportunity to identify and begin processing pivotal traumatic experiences to place these experiences within a broader life context.
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