Many mental-health programmes designed for the military and their families are not based on good science, finds the US Institute of Medicine in a report released on 20 February. The US Department of Defense needs to evaluate the psychological help it provides to veterans to ensure that its services are effective, it says. The defence department sponsored the report to help to address the prevalence of psychological problems, such as depression and anxiety, plaguing veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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