The following are commonly used policies for ARNG Behavioral Health Providers.
AR 600-63 — Apr 2015Army Health Promotion
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Prescribes policies and responsibilities for the Army Health Promotion Program.
Policy Memo 21-019 — Mar 2021BH eProfiling Standardization Policy
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Provides guidance on issuing profiles for Army personnel with behavioral health conditions and associated treatments to appropriately inform Commanders of duty limitation and treatment support recommendations.
DoD Instruction 6490.08 — Sep 2023Command Notification Requirements to Dispel Stigmas in Providing Mental Health Care to Service Members
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Promotes reducing stigma in obtaining mental health care services by balancing patient confidentiality with a commander’s need to know certain information for military operational and risk management decisions, ensuring, except in a case in which there is an exigent circumstance, the confidentiality of mental health care services provided to members who voluntarily seek such services.
DoD Instruction 6490.07 — Feb 2010Deployment-Limiting Medical Conditions for Service Members and DoD Civilian Employees
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Establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides procedures for ensuring that Service members and DoD civilian employees, including Coast Guard Service members and civilian employees at all times, including when the Coast Guard is a Service in the Department of Homeland Security by agreement with that Department, (hereafter referred to collectively as “DoD personnel”) deployed and deploying on contingency deployments are medically able to accomplish their duties in deployed environments.
DoD Instruction 6490.09 — Apr 2017DoD Directors of Psychological Health
Designates specific roles for psychological . . . MORE
Designates specific roles for psychological health advocacy at the installation, Military Departments, and DoD level to provide consultation to operational leadership and facilitate coordination of clinical, counseling, and other services promoting the psychological health of Service members and their families; designates reporting structures within the DoD to inform enterprise-wide strategic planning and monitoring of psychological health.
AR 135–178 — Nov 2022Enlisted Administrative Separations
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Provides policy and guidance for recommendation for administrative separation (ADSEP) for conditions not amounting to disability that interfere with assignment to or performance of military.
DoD Instruction 1332.38 — Jun 2023Enlisted Administrative Separations
Authorizes a fitness determination for members . . . MORE
Authorizes a fitness determination for members of the Ready Reserve who are ineligible for benefits under reference (b) because the condition is unrelated to military status and duty.
Pamphlet 600–24 — Apr 2015Health Promotion, Risk Reduction, and Suicide Prevention
Sets forth procedures for establishing health . . . MORE
Sets forth procedures for establishing health promotion, risk reduction, and suicide prevention efforts; provides holistic guidance to improve the physical, behavioral, spiritual, environmental, and social health of soldiers, army civilians, and their families.
AR 600–8–4 — Nov 2020LOD Policy, Procedures, and Investigations
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Prescribes policies and procedures for investigating the circumstances of injury, illness, disease, or death of a soldier; provides standards and considerations used in making line of duty (LOD) determinations.
AR 40–502 — Jun 2019Medical Readiness
Governs individual medical readiness (IMR) . . . MORE
Governs individual medical readiness (IMR) requirements and standards; medical readiness processes and policies supporting commander deployability determinations; physical profiles; and medical examinations, periodic health assessments (PHAs), and the Deployment Health Assessment Program (DHAP).
DoD Instruction 6490.04 — Apr 2020Mental Health Evaluations of Members of the Military Services
Establishing policy, assigning . . . MORE
Establishing policy, assigning responsibilities, and prescribing procedures for the referral, evaluation, treatment, and medical and command management of Service members who may require assessment for mental health issues, psychiatric hospitalization, and risk of imminent or potential danger to self or others. DIRECTED Behavioral Health Evaluation Initiation and Process.
DoD Instruction 1010.04 — May 2020Problematic Substance Use by DoD Personnel
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Establishes policies, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures for problematic alcohol and drug use prevention, identification, diagnosis, and treatment for DoD military and civilian personnel; describes the relationship between the DoD and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with regard to drug and alcohol use treatment.
Army Directive 2023-17 — Dec 2023Reserve Component Line of Duty Requests and Behavioral Health Investigations
To prescribe policy for the timely processing . . . MORE
To prescribe policy for the timely processing of Line of Duty( LOD) requests originating from Reserve component (RC) units and to direct the use of Department of the Army (DA) Form 3822 (Report of Mental Status Evaluation) in lieu of the credentialed behavioral health (BH) specialist opinion for formal BH LOD investigations.
AR 40-501 — Jun 2019Standards of Medical Fitness
This regulation governs individual medical . . . MORE
This regulation governs individual medical readiness (IMR) requirements and standards; medical readiness processes and policies supporting commander deployability determinations; physical profiles; and medical examinations, periodic health assessments (PHAs), and the Deployment Health Assessment Program (DHAP).
