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BY MARK ABRAMSON
Stars and Stripes
STUTTGART, Germany -- A
plan that calls for combining
mental health care clinics and
primary care clinics to reduce
the stigma of seeking help for
psychological problems has been
approved by U.S. European Com-
mand's top leaders.
Provisions in the U.S. Euro-
pean Command Bill of Rights for
Behavioral Health Care include
allowing people to adjust work
schedules to seek behavioral
health services, to receive mental
health screenings and treatment
without automatically affecting
a security clearance and to have
some degree of confidentiality.
The rights would apply to all
servicemembers, civilians, fam-
ily members and retirees in Eu-
rope, EUCOM officials said.
EUCOM started to look at
the issue in 2004, but it wasn't
until 2009 that delegates at the
command's Quality of Life Con-
ference suggested a document
similar to the Bill of Rights to
help put servicemembers at ease
about getting help, said Wayne
Boswell, EUCOM's quality-of-life
chief.
"We know that stigma is still an
issue," he said.
One of the goals of the docu-
ment is to embed mental health
providers in primary care clinics,
Boswell said. That way, someone
sitting next to a person seeking
mental health help at the clinic
wouldn't know what the person is
being treated for, he said.
The bill calls for having one or
two behavioral health specialists
in each primary care facility, said
Maria Crane, a clinical psycholo-
gist and director of the Army's
Europe Regional Medical Com-
mand's Traumatic Brain Injury
program. No timeline has been
set for having those specialists in
place.
Similar setups are already in
place at some clinics, such as
in Wiesbaden, said Crane, who
helped write the bill of rights.
One former Navy Reserve psy-
chiatrist commended EUCOM
and compared its bill to similar
documents drafted by the Ameri-
can Psychiatric Association, the
American Psychological Associa-
tion and other organizations.
Dr. Eric Anderson, a psychia-
trist and former flight surgeon,
said he could see other com-
mands adopting something simi-
lar to EUCOM's document, but he
had some reservations.
"This is a great step forward,
but the question is how enforce-
able is it?" said Anderson, who
works at the Anne Arundel Medi-
cal Center in Annapolis, Md., and
has a private practice.
Crane said she believes it
is enforceable because it has
been vetted through EUCOM's
legal experts and the command
spent a lot of time drafting the
document.
EUCOM's top enlisted service-
member, Navy Fleet Master Chief
Roy Maddocks, called the bill of
rights a way "to let our people
know it's OK (to get mental health
help)."
EUCOM's chief chaplain, Air
Force Col. Brian Van Sickle, said
the only part of the program he
finds fault with is its advisory to
patientsto"beinformedthatthere
are limits to confidentiality."
The limits in the bill of rights
refer to cases in which someone
indicates he may harm himself or
others, Boswell said.
abramsonm@estripes.osd.mil
Rights bill aimed at mental health stigma
EUCOM plans to combine health clinics, provide some confidentiality
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lives during the brigade's mission to Iraq
from 2008 to 2009. A memorial display
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unveiled at Grafenw�hr on Friday.
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