"The Army is expanding a $50-million-per-year program created in 2009 to help soldiers withstand mental illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder despite research by its own scientists showing it does nothing to reduce PTSD.
"Study authors said the training created small, indirect benefits but not affect PTSD rates. Their report was posted online earlier this year and scientists recently discussed their findings with USA TODAY....
"About 900,000 soldiers receive instruction each year in the program, originally called Comprehensive Soldier Fitness or CSF. It is being expanded this year under the name Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness and will cost $75 million annually by 2019....
"The Army study shows no direct link between the CSF training and reducing rates of diagnosis for depression, anxiety and PTSD...."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/nation/2013/10/07/army-resilience-training-research-criticism/2938069/
See:
Army Program Aims to Build Troops' Mental Resilience to Stress
"The psychological training was developed by psychologist Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania. The Army gave his school a $34 million no-bid contract to develop and run the program." Trauma experts Bessel van der Kolk and Bryant Welch say there is no science-based research to show this will work.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec11/ptsd_12-14.html
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