The Department of Defense has issued a new guidance on discharge upgrade applications based on mental health conditions, traumatic brain injury, sexual assault, and sexual harassment. In the past few years, the department has issued guidance for consideration of post-traumatic stress disorder…Read More »
(Use the button to download a PDF version of this memo for offline reading/printing.) By Kathleen Gilberd During the course of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, counselors and attorneys have seen increasing numbers of clients with psychological symptoms or diagnoses. In many…Read More »
DoD has reissued DoD Instruction 6495.02, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Program Procedures, dated March 28, 2013, adding requirements of the National Defense Authorization Act. In addition, DoD recently reissued its Instruction on involuntary psychiatric evaluation and hospitalization, DoD Instruction 6490.04, Mental Health…Read More »