Personnel and their households attended interactive displays and visited data cubicles ran by psychological well being professionals throughout what was dubbed a “psychological well being standdown.” The 2 days kicked off a collection of occasions army leaders and psychological well being consultants will facilitate this yr to boost consciousness about assets and assist companies out there to the U.S. army group in Bahrain.
“This standdown permits leaders at each stage of our group to boost consciousness and higher put together our groups and households to acknowledge, focus on, forestall and handle psychological well being considerations,” stated Capt. Hamish Kirkland, chief of employees for U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.
The command is at present conducting a two-year pilot program to broaden psychological well being remedy choices for army and members of the family serving throughout U.S. fifth Fleet.
This system contains implementation of further psychological well being choices, equivalent to a revitalized walk-in clinic on the U.S. Navy base in Bahrain and the beginning of an intensive outpatient program.
Previous to the pilot’s launch, army personnel and households may solely obtain roughly every week of inpatient remedy regionally for psychological well being whereas awaiting return to the US, and intensive outpatient care was not out there.
New choices enacted final yr decreased the variety of sufferers who would have been evacuated to the US for remedy by 40%, enabling extra personnel to stay on responsibility and with members of the family stationed in Bahrain.
“We’ve got a really supportive group right here in Bahrain,” stated Capt. William Lane, Naval Assist Exercise Bahrain’s commanding officer. “If anybody is struggling – irrespective of the difficulty – there are a number of folks to show to who’re keen to hear and assist. It is vital for everybody to know what assets can be found to them and encourage each other to make use of them.”
For data on pathways to psychological well being care, discover the newest Naval Assist Exercise Bahrain Psychological Well being Roadmap right here: https://www.cusnc.navy.mil/BH-Highway-Map/.
