Current issues in mental health in Canada : Questions d'actualité en santé mentale au Canada : la santé mentale au sein des Forces canadiennes et de la communauté des vétérans

Use of the term “disorder” was hotly debated in the lead-up to the release of the current version of the DSM (the fifth edition, or DSM-5). [...] The APA flatly rejected the arguments of military officials, who wished to see the term “disorder” replaced by 4 “injury.” In the Canadian context, the term “operational stress injury” was coined in 2001 by Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Stéphane Grenier, who started the operational stress injury peer-support program in the CF, known as the Operational Stress Injury Social Support Program. [...] The recent, decade-long, modernization of the continuum of care provided to CF members is also continually examined internally – as well as externally by the Office of the Ombudsman for the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces 11 – so that necessary improvements can be identified and implemented. [...] It summarized the state of mental health in the CF and provided guidance for the delivery of services and the prioritization of 12 resources and research over the next five years. [...] If the most prevalent mental health disorders that the Government of Canada includes under the term “operational stress injuries” (PTSD, depression, anxiety, mania, dysthymia and bipolar disorder) are taken into account, the figures for current prevalence are the following: for all veterans of the Regular Force released between 1998 and 2007: 23.6%; for veterans receiving disability benefits w