{"id":17,"date":"2008-10-20T15:21:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T19:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=17"},"modified":"2009-03-18T13:30:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:30:05","slug":"ptsd-and-women-in-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2008\/10\/20\/ptsd-and-women-in-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"PTSD and women in combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Of the 190,000 military women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, 20 percent of them will likely develop post-traumatic stress disorder, (PTSD) a debilitating, life-threatening anxiety disorder. With women returning from combat deployments in greater numbers than ever before in U.S. history, the Department of Veteran Affairs is scrambling to meet a need whose scope is still unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Boston University professors are among the lead investigators of current research being conducted at the VA&#8217;s National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Terence Keane, professor of psychiatry and director of the Behavioral Sciences Division of the National Center for PTSD, developed many of today&#8217;s most widely used PTSD assessment tools.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Patricia Resick, a professor of psychiatry and psychology and director of the Women&#8217;s Health Services Division of the National Center for PTSD, is researching why women develop PTSD at more than twice the rate of men. She also developed cognitive processing therapy (CPT), a dramatically successful treatment for rape victims and battered women.<\/li>\n<li>Amy Street, an assistant professor in psychiatry, leads a VA support team devoted to military sexual trauma (MST). 20% of women report experiencing MST, compared with 1% of men.<\/li>\n<li>Suzanne Pineles, an assistant professor or psychiatry and clinical coordinator of the VA&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Stress Disorder Treatment Team, is exploring the possibility that women may have a biological susceptibility to PTSD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the <a title=\"full article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bostonia\/fall08\/marching-home\/index.shtml#link\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">full article<\/span><\/a> in the Fall 2008 issue of <em>Bostonia<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the 190,000 military women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, 20 percent of them will likely develop post-traumatic stress disorder, (PTSD) a debilitating, life-threatening anxiety disorder. With women returning from combat deployments in greater numbers than ever before in U.S. history, the Department of Veteran Affairs is scrambling to meet a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[116,117,115,104,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}