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Check out our newest products made by VA mental health care clinicians and investigators. These products address topics that impact the mental health needs of Veterans and their families. Access our full collection of products.
Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
These materials help Veterans and clinicians understand attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with substance use disorder (SUD) and its treatment.
The Veteran brochure provides an overview of ADHD with SUD, including why they often occur together, how they are diagnosed, where to get help, and managing symptoms.
The clinician brochure explains screening, diagnosis and pharmacological treatment strategies for ADHD with SUD.
Published 2026
This product is a best practice.
Finding Your Rhythm: A Guide to Using Music for Mental Wellness
This guide is for Veterans who want simple ways to use music to support their health. It’s especially helpful for those living in rural areas, as many of the activities can be done anywhere. Veterans don’t need to be musical to benefit. The activities are simple and scientists have shown them to be helpful.
Activities can be done alone at home or with family and friends.
This guide does not provide treatment or replace therapy. The goal of this guide is to support your daily well-being and self-care.
Works well with VHA resources like “Taking Charge of My Life and Health” or the Mindfulness Coach app.
Published 2026
Mental Health Decision Aid
This worksheet will help Veterans explore various VA websites and mobile apps to determine which one is the best fit. The worksheet:
Describes how web courses and apps can support mental health.
Helps Veterans identify goals and highlights tools to address problem areas.
Assists Veterans with setting SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-Limited) goals when using websites and apps.
Published 2026
This product is a best practice.
Minutes Matter: Options for Secure Firearm Storage
This guide and the accompanying tool are designed to help clinicians have conversations about secure firearm storage, and develop a Secure Storage Plan that Veterans can use to make changes to their firearm storage. The guide also includes information about how to use firearm cable locks on various types of firearms.
The One-Page Handout consists of a blank Secure Storage Plan that clinicians can use as a reference tool or interactively with a Veteran when discussing secure firearm storage. The plan emphasizes 1) places where firearms may be stored and 2) additional strategies to enhance storage practices.
The Short Instructions include firearm injury prevention data to support secure storage practices and instructions for developing a Secure Storage Plan.
The Full Guide includes basic information about firearms, skills for having effective conversations about secure firearm storage, instructions for developing a Secure Storage Plan, and additional resources.
The Additional Resources section at the end of this product includes links to more in-depth firearm education, places to search for storage options, and out-of-home storage locators.
Published 2025
This product is a best practice.
Picture This: A Guide to Using Photos to Support Veterans with Dementia
This guide is for caregivers who support Veterans with dementia, including family members, friends, and staff in care facilities. It offers simple steps to use photos to help Veterans feel more connected and engaged; familiar pictures can bring back feelings and memories. This guide:
Introduces photo-elicitation—a way of using pictures to recall memories and make meaningful conversations.
Aims to encourage conversation, bring out comforting emotions, and help Veterans connect past experiences to the present.
Includes appendix that has helpful questions to guide conversations with Veterans during photo sessions.
Published 2025
This product is a best practice.
Reclaiming Your Life From Headache
This workbook is for Veterans living with tension-type headache, migraine or cluster headache. It provides information, tools and simple exercises to help Veterans live a full and meaningful life — even with pain. This workbook:
Teaches three common headache types and covers treatments, tools and options for care.
Aids Veterans in exploring what is helping and not helping their headaches while practicing ways to respond to pain.
Includes worksheets and exercises to help Veterans explore and understand their headaches.
Published 2025
This product is a best practice.
Securely Storing Firearms and Medications to Reduce Suicide Risk
This comprehensive guide empowers caregivers to have meaningful conversations with Veterans about secure firearm storage and provides actionable steps for securely storing firearms and medications, ultimately aiming to reduce suicide risk. The guide:
Provides an overview of the importance of secure storage.
Discusses when and how to have secure storage conversations.
Includes a list of helpful resources with links to tools on caregiver support, secure storage, education, family and social stressors, and more.
Published 2025
This product is a best practice.
Sexual Health and Wellness
These materials help Veterans enhance their sexual health and wellness. It is for Veterans who want to learn ways to make sex more enjoyable or address sexual difficulties.
The guide has opportunities for Veterans to self-reflect and journal to understand their sex life and what affects it.
Includes brochures for clinicians and Veterans that provide an overview of sexual health, address having conversations about sexual health, and lists resources.
Veterans can learn new skills and tips to increase their sexual pleasure.
Published 2026
This product is a best practice.
Strength in Expression: A Guide for Using Creative Arts for Mental Wellness
This guide is for Veterans who want easy and quick ways to use the creative arts for their well-being. The activities in this guide can help Veterans relax, take a break from heavy emotions, and connect with themselves in a way that feels comfortable.
The activities in this guide are flexible. They focus on creativity, healing, and self-expression, instead of artistic skill.
The guide includes simple activities that can be done at home using everyday materials.
The guide also includes tips to help Veterans reflect on their emotions after artmaking.
Published 2026
Veteran Wellness Toolkit
This toolkit is for Veterans who want to learn tools to improve their wellness.
Part of a Whole Health approach to Veterans well-being.
Self-paced.
Self-directed (does not require a mental health professional to use).
Sections include goal setting, understanding health, wellness tools, and additional resources.
Includes practical wellness tools, such as self-compassion, gratitude, thinking positively, and eating for vitality.
Includes a Spanish-language version of the Veteran Wellness Toolkit:
Spanish and English toolkits can be used to include friends and family who prefer Spanish.
Special thanks to Armandina Garza, BS for her editorial contributions to the Spanish-language version to ensure accuracy.
Please note that the health care information provided in these materials is for educational purposes only. It does not replace the role of a medical practitioner for advice on care and treatment. If you are looking for professional medical care, find your local VA healthcare center by using the VA Facilities Locator & Directory.
