Army Health Training and Practice

NATO survey of mental health training in army recruits.

To-date, there has been no international review of mental health resilience training during Basic Training nor an assessment of what service members perceive as useful from their perspective. In response to this knowledge gap, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Human Factors & Medicine Research & Technology Task Group "Mental Health Training" initiated a survey and interview with sev...

[Public health: knowledge, practice and training].

This paper presents a discussion regarding Public Health's main challenges: knowledge of it, professional practice and training human resources. It begins by recognising Latin-America's unequal and polar socio-sanitary context and the sanitary field's myriad single referents, paying special attention to essential public health functions, the Millennium development goals and the Latin-American A...

Group approaches and army health.

SUMMARY: The use of group approaches in military life is reviewed from a historical perspective, particularly the development of group psychotherapy by British Army psychiatrists in World War 11. The difficulty that the soldier and his wife may have in coping with the stresses of service life, in establishing group and personal identity and in relating to others is highlighted. The value of gro...

Master resilience training in the U.S. Army.

The U.S. Army Master Resilience Trainer (MRT) course, which provides face-to-face resilience training, is one of the foundational pillars of the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program. The 10-day MRT course is the foundation for training resilience skills to sergeants and for teaching sergeants how to teach these skills to their soldiers. The curriculum is based on materials developed by the Uni...

Defining Tailored Training Approaches for Army Institutional Training