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This week
Tuesday 2 May 2006
All in the Mind goes to war ...
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Dr Kwame McKenzie takes a look at the mental health of the military. With nearly one in 5 US soldiers returning from Iraq with psychological problems there's growing concern about the mental health of soldiers. Dr McKenzie attends a NATO conference in Brussels looking at psychological support, and talks to Major General Patrick Cammaert, a former Dutch Marine, who now leads 15,000 UN peace keepers in DR Congo. Lieutenant-Colonel Carl Castro and Dr Brenda Wiederhold explain how the US is using predeployment briefings and Virtual Reality to help soliders cope, and Professor Simon Wessely talks about the situation in Britain .
The Army is using the psychological model of Transformational Leadership to reform its training regime, and All in the Mindvisits the Infantry Training Centre at Catterick to see if it's making any difference to new recruits.
And Dr McKenzie talks to two veterans being treated by Combat Stress about their psychological breakdowns following active service.
