By Navy Lt. Jennifer Cragg
August 11, 2008
The Naval Center for Combat and Operational Stress Control is teaching sailors and Marines how to deal with everyday and combat-related stress starting at the beginning of their military careers, a senior Navy official said.
The center recently was established at Naval Medical Center San Diego to address the issues of psychological health by improving care for post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, but also how to effectively teach sailors and Marines to recognize the signs of stress.
“The idea of the center is … not only to help sailors and Marines in distress, but to promote good stress management and promote psychological health so it starts when … people come into boot camp and [lasts] all of the way until they graduate from war college,” Navy Capt. (Dr.) Paul Hammer, the center’s director, said Aug. 7 in an interview on Dot-Mil-Docs radio show hosted on BlogTalkRadio.com.
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