Overview
- Includes personal experiences from professionals who have encountered rights issues among gay military service men and women
- The only text to offer clinical pearls and guidelines for treating patients struggling with the issue of gay rights in the military
- Examines the issues of mental healthcare among gay military personnel in the context of other psychological traumas
- Written by experts who were impacted by these policies firsthand
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Personal Experiences
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Clinical Lessons Learned
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About this book
Gay Mental Healthcare Providers and Patients in the Military is an excellent resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, policymakers, and all professionals who are interested in LGBTQ rights in the context of veteran psychiatry.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
COL (Ret) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Chief, Mental Health Community Based Outpatient Clinics
Washington DC VA
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry George Washington University School of Medicine
Professor of Psychiatry Howard University College of Medicine
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Professor of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)
Joseph E Wise, MD
Major, Medical Corps, US Army
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Bethesda, MD, USA
Bryan Pyle, MSW
Department of Social Work
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
US Navy
Bethesda, MD, USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gay Mental Healthcare Providers and Patients in the Military
Book Subtitle: Personal Experiences and Clinical Care
Editors: Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, Joseph E. Wise, Bryan Pyle
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66026-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66025-7Published: 27 November 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66026-4Published: 18 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 169
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychiatry, Public Health, Psychotherapy, General Practice / Family Medicine