TRICARE Mental Health Coverage for Military Families: Active Duty, Retiree, and Dependent Benefits

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Sergeant First Class Devon Reyes had been back from his third deployment for eleven months when the nightmares stopped letting his wife sleep, and the family’s first call about tricare mental health benefits ran into a wall. The base behavioral health clinic at Fort Liberty had a six-week waiting list. His wife Karina, herself a … Read more

Substance Use Levels of Care: ASAM Continuum, Detox, Residential Treatment, and Medication-Assisted Recovery

Why Substance Use Has Its Own Levels of Care The continuum of mental health care has a parallel continuum specifically for substance use disorders, with its own terminology, its own clinical structures, and its own evidence base. The American Society of Addiction Medicine, often called ASAM, has codified this continuum into a set of levels that providers, … Read more

Religious Deconstruction and Mental Health: Leaving High-Control Religion and the Therapy That Helps

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Hannah grew up in Provo. Her family was eighth-generation Mormon. She served a mission in São Paulo at twenty-one, married in the Salt Lake temple at twenty-three, and by thirty-one was a stay-at-home mother of three who could no longer make herself believe. She did not announce it. She kept showing up to sacrament meeting … Read more