Topic > PTSD Diagnosis and Diagnosis - 1433

to diagnose PTSD, as SMs sometimes try to take advantage of the system and lie about their screening process. The Department of Defense (DoD) uses a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PCL) Checklist, which is a clinical screening tool, serves various purposes, including; to identify Soldier members who may have some type of PTSD problem, assisting in the diagnostic evaluation of PTSD and monitoring changes in symptoms of PTSD patients, to those Soldiers who have already filled one out previously. The PCL consists of a few questions where the SM is asked to answer questions associated with a past situation and what are his feelings related to those situations he experiences and based on his answer, he will be referred for further evaluation. Depending on the MS's score on the PCL, it may be sent to three different places within the medical care system. If their score is between 30 and 35 points, they will be sent to the GP, when the score is between 36 and 44, they will be sent to a pain specialist or perhaps for traumatic bain injury (TBI), instead, if their score is greater than 45, they will be referred to the behavioral health professional (Weathers, F.W., Litz, B.T., Keane, T.M., Palmieri, P.A., Marx, B.P., & Schnurr, P.P. (2013).Once the SM If you are referred to a behavioral health professional, the SM will follow a series of processes related to better diagnosis of PTSD. One of these processes is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2), is a psychological test, which covers more than 500 questions and takes approximately more than an hour to complete, since this test is so crucial in helping in the identification of a possible patient with post-traumatic stress disorder, must be handled and interpreted in... middle of the paper. .....little planning is devoted to developing long-term initiatives to benefit MS, the population-based approach to this disorder by any of the branches of the service, needs to be given greater consideration. Each service branch has established their own prevention programs, just to make sure they are taking the necessary steps to address the problem, each branch trains its own mental health personnel and has its own programs and services for treating PTSD -traumatic. The Department of Defense has issued some directives and instructions apply to all branches of the service, but implementation is typically at the discretion of each service branch's surgeon general, installation commander, or even treatment facility leaders military. It gives the impression that each branch of the service is looking for best business practices to deal with SMs and their PTSD issues.