Innovative Practices for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury

The RAND Corporation is conducting a study to identify and evaluate the effectiveness of Department of Defense-sponsored programs that address psychological health and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) among members of the military community. While most military personnel and their families cope well across the deployment cycle, some may suffer psychological problems including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, or anxiety disorders. There is also growing concern about the incidence of traumatic brain injury among service personnel. Over the past several years, the Department has implemented numerous programs, interventions, and policies to address these issues. These programs address various components of biologic, psychological, and social influences on health, and include programs across the resilience-prevention-treatment continuum.

This study provides a Catalog of Programs and their characteristics that were in place between December 2009 and August 2010, and will soon include a toolkit to support program evaluation as well as evaluations of a subset of the 211 programs included in the Catalog.