Supportive Therapies * Post Traumatic Stress Disorder / Veterans
RP-8000 * YF-5000.0500-650 * YN-9000
Programs that utilize guided expressive or recreational activities, dietary management, hypnosis or other specialized interventions as auxiliary forms of treatment to improve the adjustment of individuals who have mental, emotional or social problems; and to facilitate other forms of therapy. Supportive therapies may be used for diagnostic purposes and are, on occasion, utilized as primary treatment modalities.
A disorder affecting individuals who have experienced a psychologically traumatizing event which is characterized by reexperiencing the event through recurrent and intrusive recollections or dreams of the event, or the sudden feeling that the event was recurring; numbing of responsiveness or reduced involvement with the external world beginning sometime after the trauma; and/or one or a combination of other symptoms including hyperalertness or exaggerated startle response, sleep disturbance, guilt about surviving if others have not, memory or concentration impairment, avoidance of memories that recall the trauma and intensification of symptoms when exposed to events that symbolize or resemble the trauma.
Individuals who are former members of one of the branches of the armed forces and who, by length and type of services, honorable discharge or release or degree of disability, qualify for the benefits and privileges that are provided by law for ex-servicemen and women.