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A Starting Line for SPRINT: The Beginning of the Navy’s Special Psychiatric Rapid Intervention Team

May 25, 2016 A Look Back, Navy History, Navy Medicine History Comments Off on A Starting Line for SPRINT: The Beginning of the Navy’s Special Psychiatric Rapid Intervention Team

By Andre’ B. Sobocinski, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery historian The special psychiatric rapid intervention team (SPRINT) is marking four decades since it was first developed by a team of psychiatrists at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia. Early in 1976, psychiatrists involved with the care of survivors from USS Belknap accident began seeing an incidence of marital problems, …

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