Combat Stress Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society
Welfare and Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Welfare Service
For each referral we receive, it will be the Society's Welfare Service that sets up the all-important link with the veteran, and it will be one of the Society's Regional Welfare Officers who will make the first home visit. This is a vital task, not least to start the business of building up an understanding of need as well as to give the veteran some confidence that he or she is now with an organisation which does care and will help. And the fact is that our Welfare Officers so often succeed where other dedicated care workers find difficulty, and this is because all of them are ex-Service themselves, with first-hand experience of warfare and service life making them perhaps better able than most to understand the problems they come across.
As the veteran's confidence in the Welfare Officer grows, so the kind of relationship is formed in which the client feels able to accept help. Our objective above all else is to improve the quality of life for each client and his, or her, immediate family. And although at all times, we work within the framework provided by the Government's community service programme, we're able to add that extra understanding and practical help that this special group of people so richly deserve. The prime help which can be given is through admission to one of the Society's Treatment Centres where remedial treatment aims to help the veteran both understand what is causing the problem and how to cope with the suffering which is being experienced.
In addition the Welfare Officer can assist with War Pension Applications and help put the veteran in touch with other appropriate organisations.