Talk:Operational stress injury
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I'm the article's initial creator. Operational stress Injury has become a significant enough term in Canadian public policy that it's now appearing within Parliamentary debates and reports, and is used by government departments in the context of health care and benefits. As such I hope it merits inclusion on Wikipedia.
Short term, obviously I want to expand the content, particularly with regards to the prevalence of individual disorders among ther military and first responder populations. Quality of references will need to improve in time. I also intend to break down the treatments heading into subheadings for the pharmacological and the psychosocial treatments. I'll be working to include better (and properly cited) reference to police, fire, and paramedics. I will want to expand a section on preventative training/education such as mental health resilience. I will want to include more on peer support efforts, though that will be trickier because I don't want this article to become a place where any one group (including my own) or advocate hops on a soapbox- any Canadian veterans related stuff is prone to that.
To get all this done, I'll need help, hence wanting the article to 'go live' so we can draw attention, feedback, and contribution.