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Montana Difford

Honors English 4

Mrs. Sydlowski

28 November 2018

Annotated Bibliography

“Mental Combat.” ​Popular Science​, vol. 282, no. 3, Mar. 2013, p. 40. ​MasterFILE Premier.

The article is about the different ways that have been thought of to help veterans and those

overseas combat mental health disorders like PTSD. Some of the main points made were that the

efforts being made were not only to help fight it, but ways to prevent it. The author is Matthieu

Aikins is a journalist who embedded with Bulldog Company, a U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne

Division, to experience firsthand the conditions that those in forward-deployed infantry routinely

experience. The author’s expertise over this topic is that he went with a division in order to

experience some of what they went through. The purpose of the article is to discuss and inform

people of what those deployed go through and the efforts being made to help them to battle with

the mental health problems that result from said conditions. The intended audience is those

willing to read, mainly the general public. The article provides a great deal of information and

gives a first hand account of what the author experience and saw while there.There is no

additional sources listed, but it is told in a first person narrative way accounting what all is being

done as well as some outside information about programs being used. The article is a few years

old and was written in 2013. The article is easy to understand, even for the average person. It is

written in a first person narrative sort of way, so it's practically made for the general public to be
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able to read. The source came from ​Popular Science​, located in the ​MasterFILE Premier

database.

Creech, Suzannah K., et al. “Identifying Mental and Physical Health Correlates of

Homelessness among First-Time and Chronically Homeless Veterans.” ​Journal of

Community Psychology​, vol. 43, no. 5, July 2015, pp. 619–627. Psychology and

Behavioral Sciences Collection.

The overall topic of the source is the association of four categories of self-reported of health and

mental health factors with recurrent and chronic homelessness among a sample of homeless

veterans. The information provided is a detail of the study done- including a quick introduction

summary, data analyses the participants, results and the method used, etc. There were multiple

authors for this source- Suzannah K Creech, Erin Johnson, Matthew Borgia, Claire Bourgault,

Stephen Redihan, and Thomas P. O’Toole. They have expertise over this topic because they are

the ones who conducted the study.The purpose of this article was a report over the study done.

The intended audience was the scientific community, since its written in the format of a report

study. The source provides a great deal of information over a study that was conducted to find

out the correlation between homelessness in veterans and mental health issues. There are many

references and with it being the report of a study done, its accurate. The article is only a few

years old, having been written in 2015. The authors’ writing style would be considered hard to

follow for most people who didn’t understand how a scientific report was written. The source is

from the ​Journal of Community Psychology​ found in the ​Psychology and Behavioral Sciences

Collection​.
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Klippel, Cory, and Greg Sullivan. “Older Adults as Caregivers for Veterans with PTSD.”

Generations​, vol. 42, no. 3, Fall 2018, pp. 41–46 ​Sociological Collection.

The overall topic of the article is PTSD and its symptoms and treatments in veterans as well as

giving advice to how caregivers can assist them. The main points are the symptoms and

treatment options for veterans with PTSD as well as advise for those providing care for them.

The authors of the article are Kory Klippel and Greg Sullivan, both work in areas that have

worked with either veterans or psychiatry. They both have experience in this area, proving their

expertise over the topic. The purpose of this article was to provide information on how to

properly provide care for a veteran suffering from PTSD. The intended audience are those

providing care for a veteran suffering from PTSD. The article provides a great deal of

information on symptoms and treatments for veterans suffering as well as how to properly care

for them.The information is accurate and there are tons of references listed as well as the authors

seem to have expertise in the subject. The source is recent, having been written in 2018. The

author’s way of writing is easy to follow, but it was mainly written for those seeking advice in

how to properly care for a veteran suffering from PTSD. The article’s source is called

Generations​ located in the ​Sociological Collection​ database.

Krieger, Clifford. "Privacy Protections and Poor Data Collection Are Hurting Homeless

Veterans." ​Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection​, Detroit, MI, Gale, 2018.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context,​ Accessed 7 Nov. 2018. Originally published as "Our

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Obstacles in Trying to Help Homeless Veterans: Too Little Data, Too Much

Privacy" in ​Foreign Policy​, 25 Sept. 2015.

The overall subject of the article was that the value of privacy is having a negative impact on the

sharing of data. Due to the need of privacy, it is near impossible to get the necessary information

that would help them help get veterans off the streets. The author of the article is Clifford

Krieger, a retired Air Force colonel, an author, and a member of the Lowell Continuum of Care

Homelessness Assistance coalition. He has the expertise over this topic because not only has he

done tours while he, himself, was in the military, but he also works with a local committee for

the Homelessness, and its due to this that he has experience with dealing with the data systems

not being allowed to share the information required that could help get a veteran off the street.

The purpose of the article was to call attention to the fact that the data systems can’t properly

share much needed information with one another due to privacy protection. The article was most

likely written for the general public since it is easy to read. The article provides real life

examples of how the protection of privacy has prevented him personally in his line of work from

getting the needed information to help a possible veteran in needed.The information could be

reliable since its given as a first-hand example, but with no references listed to back it up, it is

arguable about bit not being credible. The article is current, what with it having been written and

published within the last year or so. The writing style is easy to understand, and the “average

joe” would be able to read and understand the words written.This source in ​Opposing Viewpoints

Online Collection​ while in ​Gale.​

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Longman, Phillip. "Veterans in the United States Receive High-Quality Care." ​The US

Military​, edited by Noah Berlatsky, Greenhaven Press, 2016. Opposing Viewpoints.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context,​ Accessed 7 Nov. 2018.

The overall subject of the article is that the VA system as a whole outperforms the rest of the

health care system on practically every metric that health care quality experts can devise. Some

of the main points the author touches upon is that the VA has a nearly lifelong relationship with

their patients and they also don’t profit from their illness which helps to effectively treat their

patients for the illnesses they have, though the author does list some of the VA’s downfalls and

what needs to be done to better it. The author is Phillip Longman, and his qualifications come

from him having wrote a book that’s now in its third edition called, “Best Care Anywhere: Why

VA Health Care Would Be Better for Everyone”. He has expertise over this topic due to the

research he put in to writing his book. The source was written for the purpose of bringing

attention to the ways in which the health care systems can be bettered for both the general public

and veterans and their families. The intended audience was anyone who was interested in reading

it. Most likely the public, and this is known because its talking to the reader and is easily

understood.The source provides a decent amount of information that’s detailed enough to

support the evidence given. The information given is accurate due to the amount of outside

sources provided at the end. The article about two years old. The writing style is easy to

understand, and the average jow should be able to read it. The source is straightforward and uses

simple vocabulary, and if it uses less common terms, it defines or explains them right after. The

source was found in ​Opposing Viewpoints in Context​ through ​Gale​.

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Sayer, Nina A., et al. “Military to Civilian Questionnaire: A Measure of Postdeployment

Community Reintegration Difficulty among Veterans Using Department of

Veterans Affairs Medical Care.” ​Journal Of Traumatic Stress​, vol. 24, no. 6, Dec.

2011, pp. 660–670. ​MEDLINE.

The main topic for this article was the study of reintegration difficulties among a sampled group

of veterans. The main points of the article was a detailed description of the method and study

done and what the objectives were. There are multiple authors of this article, many of whom

work with the Minneapolis VA Healthcare system. The authors- Nina A. Sayer, Patricia Frazier,

Robert J. Orazem, Maureen Murdoch, Amy Gravely, Kathleen F. Carlson, Samuel Hintz, and

Siamak Noorbaloochi- have expertise over this topic because they are the ones to do the study

and many of them work with the VA healthcare system in Minneapolis. This was written with

the primary objective of the study being to describe the psychometric properties of a new

measure, the Military to Civilian Questionnaire, that would be used to assess the specific

community reintegration problem among combat veterans. The intended audience are those in

the scientific community, specifically those working in the veteran health care department, this is

obvious from the fact that this is the scientific report written based off of the study done. The

article provides a great deal of information on the study done, including the methods and

procedures used. It also includes data tables of measurements and the analyses drawn from the

overall study. The information is accurate due to the fact that it is a study and there is a long list

of references provided. It is about seven years old, having been written in 2011. The writing style

isn’t the easiest to understand considering it wasn’t written with the intent of the average person,
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but for those in the scientific community working with veterans. The article is from ​Journal of

Traumatic Stress​ located in the ​Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection​ database.

"Soldiers' Mental Health." ​Issues and Controversies​, Infobase Learning, 11 May 2007.

Accessed 7 Nov. 2018.

The overall topic of the article is that there is been an increase in mental illnesses among

veterans, and some people don’t believe that the U.S. isn’t providing adequate mental health

services for them. Some of the main points made came from both the supporters of the current

services and those that oppose it, but overall it pointed out some of the main mental health

problems the returning veterans face as well as statistics and both sides reasonings. The article

was found in Issues and Controversies, so there is no author listed. The intent of the article was

to discuss the issues with veterans mental health and if the government was providing adequate

services to help assist them with it. The intended audience was probably students since it seems

to resemble an informative, research paper with how it gives an introduction to what’s been

going on and then a section for both arguments. It provides details about the statistics that have

been found on mental health with soldiers. There are graphs and tables to support the information

given as well. The information may be a bit outdated, having been written back in 2007, but the

information is accurate for that time, and could be verified with the sources and references listed.

The writing style is easy to understand, and with this having been written for students, the

average person should be able to read and understand it. The source was found in ​Issues &

Controversies​.
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Tsai, Jack, and Robert A. Rosenheck. “Characteristics and Health Needs of Veterans with

Other-than-Honorable Discharges: Expanding Eligibility in the Veterans Health

Administration.” ​Military Medicine,​ vol. 183, no. 5–6, May 2018, pp. e153–e157.

MEDLINE.

The main topic of this article was finding if Veterans with Other-Than-Honorable discharges

have worse mental health then other veterans. The main points made are the methods and data

analysis of the study done, as well as the results that showed that veterans with OTH discharges

were younger and reported to have more physical and mental health problems than those with

honorable or general discharges. There were two authors for this study, Jack Tsai, with a Ph.D.

and Robert A. Rosenheck with an M.D. They have expertise over this topic because together

they have experience with the VA and Department of Psychiatry. The purpose of this was to

discover whether those with OTH discharges have worse mental health then those with

honorable or general discharges.The intended audience is the scientific community and those

working with veterans, this is recognized due to it being a report published of a study done on

veterans. The source provides a study conducted to see if OTH discharged veterans had worse

mental health then those with honorable or general discharge. It gives all the necessary parts of a

scientific report and even a table. There are also references provided at the end and it is a recent

article, having been published this year. The article isn’t hard to understand, but it was not

written with the “average joe” in mind. The article is the report of a study done, which makes it

more for the scientist community. The source of article is the ​Military Medicines​ found in the

Academic Search Premier​ database.

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"The US Veteran Health Care System Is Overwhelmed and Failing." ​The US Military​,

edited by Noah Berlatsky, Greenhaven Press, 2016. Opposing Viewpoints. ​Opposing

Viewpoints in Context​, Accessed 7 Nov. 2018. Originally published as "'Significant

and Chronic System Failures' at VA: White House Report,", 28 June 2014.

The topic of this article is that the VA was lacking in staff and had problems with

mismanagement. The information provided includes a couple paragraphs explaining out the main

issues at the VHA as well as a brief description on why and how it should be reconstructed so

that it once again properly helps the veterans. The article was published by the Associated Press,

which is a news service.They have authority to write about this topic because they’re a news

service and it is their job to write about such things.The purpose or intent of this article was to

inform the readers about the VA’s problems being with mismanagement and not due to a lack of

resources. The intended audience was the general public since it was written by a news

service.The author provides a decent amount of information on the topic, going as far as to use

quotes and even a few statistics. The source is a bit outdated, having been published four or so

years ago, but it is decently accurate for the time period and it can provide details as to what

changes have recently been made to improve the VA.The author’s writing style is done in the

third person and is easy to understand. It was originally published by the Associated Press and

due to that being a news service, it is easily inferred that it was written so that the “average

person would be able to read and comprehend it with minimal difficulty. This particular article

was acquired through the use of opposing viewpoints located in ​Gale​.

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"Veterans' Services." ​Issues and Controversies,​ Infobase Learning, 15 Aug. 2011. Accessed

7 Nov. 2018.

The overall subject of the article is whether or not veterans should be offered more benefits and

services. A lot of points that were brought up were past examples of how the government has

assisted veterans after major points in history. There were also supporters and opponents

arguments present, which allowed for the reader to hear both viewpoints. Due to this article

being found from Issues & Controversies, there was no listed author. The purpose of the article is

to provide both sides of the stories as to whether or not people should agree or disagree with

veterans being given all the benefits and services they have. The source was written to provide

two sides to a viewpoint, leading one to think that the intended audience was students looking to

write an informative research paper. The source provides a great deal of information, a good

portion of it being past examples of how the government has often offered such services and

benefits to the returning veterans. The article also lists a decent amount of resources used,

leading one to think that the information is accurate, though it is a bit old, having been last

updated in 2011. The article seems easy to understand, its written in a way a lot of articles are

and with it providing the type of information it does, it is probably made for high school

students. It has similarities to that of an informative paper. The article was found on ​Issues &

Controversies​.