This website has been produced by the Combat Stress Centre for Applied Military Health Research. It forms part of a programme of translational research known as ENHANCE+, which has been funded by a grant from the Office for Veterans’ Affairs.
The Combat Stress Centre for Applied Military Health Research conducts translational research to better understand the unique needs of the whole veteran community, develop novel treatments and interventions to improve clinical outcomes, and disseminate findings to others working with veteran communities, both nationally and internationally. It produces accessible work that translates to positive applications and impact in the field, as well as ensuring applicability across the diverse spectrum of the veteran community.
The Centre has close ties with King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR), King’s College London as well as highly valued collaborative relationships with other national UK and international research institutions, service providers, and transnational bodies.
The Centre is part of Combat Stress, the UK’s leading veterans’ mental health charity. Combat Stress is dedicated to providing clinical services to veterans who have some of the most complex trauma-related mental health issues. Combat Stress provide a range of specialist mental health services to veterans in community, outpatient and residential settings, in-person and remotely, and in partnership with other organisations across the whole of the UK.
The Centre’s peer-reviewed research into the experiences and needs of UK women veterans is free to access at combatstress.org.uk/women-veterans-research. This includes the largest study to date of women veterans and a multi-phase study co-produced with veterans with recommendations on how to improve access to the best-evidenced treatment for women veterans who have experienced military sexual trauma. The current project is based on these findings, and the work of others in the field.
This training programme has been produced with collaboration from stakeholders from the Centre for Military Women’s Research (CMWR) at Anglia Ruskin University, the Academic Department of Military Mental Health (ADMMH) at King’s College London, the WRAC Association, NHS veteran services, COBSEO, Forces in Mind Trust, Phoenix Australia, Veterans Canada, University of Melbourne, McMaster University and New Zealand Defence Force. These stakeholders also include women veterans with lived experience and serving personnel. We are greatly appreciative of the support and input of all developing these materials.
