Citation

Milliken CS, Leavitt WT, Murdock P, Orman DT, Ritchie EC, Hoge CW. Mil. Med. 2002; 167(9 Suppl): 48-57.

Affiliation

Operation Solace, Department of Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12363141

Abstract

Operation Solace is the name given to a post-September 11, 2002 plan directed by the Army Surgeon General to proactively address the predictable behavioral health distress/disorders and related somatic phenomenon expected to occur among the Pentagon employees, family members, and Department of Defense beneficiaries located in the National Capitol Region affected by the terrorist attack. Using well-known and also relatively novel preventive population-based methodologies for minimizing the post-attack behavioral health-related morbidity resulted in the evolution of simplified principles ("Pieces of PIES") and methods (Therapy by Walking around and Care Management), which are briefly elaborated in this article.

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