Overview
The Center for Deployment Psychology facilitates behavioral health training for civilian providers in various locations throughout the year.
"Addressing the Psychological Health of Warriors and Their Families: PTSD, Depression, and TBI" is a one-week course offered up to eight times per year, and provides in-depth training on deployment spectrum issues facing our service members, their families, and the providers themselves.
CDP’s University Counseling Center Core Competency program is a one-day mobile presentation designed to address the social, cultural, and clinical concerns of service members and veterans on a university campus. This program includes specific discussion of campus outreach and planning, and is appropriate for both clinical and non-clinical campus personnel.
From time to time, CDP participates in collaborative training events through partnerships with local or regional organizations in order to best suit the needs of a specific group of behavioral health caregivers.
Suggested Audience:
These courses are designed for civilian licensed mental health providers including psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, and marriage family therapists who are actively treating military personnel, veterans, and their families or plan to actively treat this population.
While we recognize that many individuals may be interested in this course, the material is not designed for, and may not be appropriate for, non-professionals and those who are not working with this population. Active Duty mental health providers interested in taking this course should contact the CDP to inquire about other workshops designed specifically for them.
Course Content:
The one-week course and most collaborative events cover topics designed to increase clinical competency for treating service members with behavioral health problems through a better understanding of military culture and terminology, deployment risk factors for service members and families, and evidence-based treatments for depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
Training goals include:
- Examine how military culture and stages of the deployment cycle impact servicemembers and their families and identify ways to build resilience
- Review the application of empirically-validated measures and treatments for depression and suicide using military examples
- Better understand the etiology, assessment, and treatment of PTSD and its comorbid problems particularly within the context of war
- Learn evidence-based treatments for PTSD through a two-day intensive training in Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) or Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) (these are presented in separate tracks; attendees may attend only one track)
- Identify symptoms, mechanisms, levels of severity, and rates of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in servicemembers, as well as TBI resources and tools
Location:
One-week and collaborative training courses are mobile events offered several times a year in different parts of the country. University Counseling Center programs are presented on campuses in conjunction with university partnerships. Please see the training schedule below for specific locations.
Cost:
There is a $75 fee for attending the one-week program. This fee covers copies of course materials, continuing education credits for each module, and a daily continental breakfast. Participants are responsible for their own travel and expenses. Costs for collaborative training events and the University Counseling Center Core Competency program are determined on a case by case basis in conjunction with program partners.
Training Schedule:
September 13-17, 2010 (Atsugi, Japan)
October 4-8, 2010 (Minneapolis, MN)
October 25-29, 2010 (San Diego, CA)
