Behavioral Health: Veterans’ Issues addresses the role of family engagement in managing veteran behavioral health/suicide prevention, delivering culturally competent care to veterans’ family members with mental health issues, the importance of reviewing veterans’ medical, occupational, and social history, risk issues for non-psychiatrists prescribing or renewing psychotropic medications for veterans, a healthcare provider’s duty to protect a patient from self-injury, consideration of the impact of PTSD or other behavioral health issues into care plans, and the duty of a physician when providing a telemedicine consult.
