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• How Can I Get Him to Seek Help? Talking Points for Women -
Courage to Care Fact Sheet
Women play a key role in encouraging men to seek help for health problems. It is often a wife or important female (girlfriend, mother, sister or aunt) who is the first to notice changes in their loved one's behavior or appearance. These changes may signal a health or mental health problem, or both.
Source: Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
• Primary Care Strategies to Foster Male Health Care Seeking - Courage to Care Fact Sheet
Primary care providers have an important role in fostering their patients' health, and building healthy behaviors. Men, who constitute the majority of those who have served or will serve in OIF and OEF, consistently underutilize health and mental health services often putting themselves and their family members at potential risk. Gender roles and socialization may partially explain why help seeking patterns in men are historically lower than in women, especially related to emotional problems and depressive symptoms.
Source : Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
• Wounded Warrior Resource Center -
The Wounded Warrior Resource Center Web site (WWRC) is a Department of Defense Web site which provides wounded Service Members, their Families, and caregivers with information they need on military facilities, health care services, and benefits. It supports access to the Wounded Warrior Resource Call Center and trained specialists who are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by phone at 1-800-342-9647 or by e-mail at wwrc@militaryonesource.com.
Helpful Financial Stress Links/Tools
• Getting Through Tough Economic Times Guide - A first-of-its-kind, online guide now provides crucial information and resource referrals for people dealing with emotional or other health problems associated with economic hard times. Thi guide provides practical advice on identifying health concerns, developing coping skills and finding help.
