Army must do more to address soldiers' mental health, review says
Saturday, March 9, 2013 - 02:00
in Health & Medicine
A national review of the Army's behavioral health workforce outlines delays in care, inaccurate diagnoses and a need for more workers.SEATTLE — Problems with combat stress in soldiers have escalated so rapidly that the Army has doubled its behavioral health workforce over the last five years and still needs to hire more help, according to a nationwide review of the military's troubled system for handling the mental wounds of war.