[FLORIDA] COURSE 5K_DV_PART 1 - 'FINDING BALANCE AFTER THE WAR ZONE - TREATMENT OF POST-DEPLOYMENT STRESS UPON RETURN TO HOME

Course overview

This course is sponsored by CEU By Net and earns 5 CLOCK HOURS. We are an approved CE Provider for NBCC, and for EACC for PDHs. We are also a licensed CE Provider for TCBAP (IC&RC) and TAAP, and thus our courses are pre-approved for CAP by FCB and by NAADAC. This sponsored course is the first half of a Federally funded and published training manual for clinicians entitled 'Finding Balance After the War Zone - Considerations in the Treatment of Post-Deployment Stress Effects - A Guide for Clinicians.' 'Stress Effects' are the mental, emotional, and physiological injuries which result from unrelenting trauma on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, which include PTSD, AOD Substance Use Disorders (SUDs), and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) - which frequently involve anger control issues, domestic violence, anxiety and depression, flashbacks, freeze' reaction, depersonalization, and inability to distinguish the past from the present. This course addresses the ASSESSMENT and TREATMENT of War Zone Stress Injuries, and also presents an excellent explanation of the unique CULTURE of Military Service Units in the War Zone - both while there, and after re-deployment to home. This course explores the reason why most War Zone veterans feel that the hard part of the war is 'coming home.' The OTHER HALF of this federally published manual is found on our website as Course 5L, which also earns 5 Clock Hours of CE Credit and 5 PDHs. 5L goes into more detail about the interaction between the provider and the veteran, with specific intervention and treatment approaches for specific issues. This 'Course 5K_DV' manual is written from the perspective of the emotional and physical STRESS INJURIES incurred during deployment to war zones in the Middle East. The publication recognizes that those who are deployed in these wars face some unique challenges when they return to home - challenges that require enhanced professional awareness if behavioral health clinicians, counselors and therapists are to work effectively with this generation of Service Members and Veterans and their families. Some of the Goals of this course are: ¿ Understand the unique complexity of Dual Diagnosis STRESS INJURIES which are incurred in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan ¿ from the neurological effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) to the psychological and spiritual effects including DUAL DIAGNOSIS Substance Use Disorders (SUDs), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anger, rage, paranoia, conflict leading to domestic violence, etc.. ¿ Learn what it is that drives the disruptive and frightening symptoms accompanying post-deployment PTSD - such as flashbacks, the 'freeze reaction', runaway heart rate, dissociative reactions, 'shut down', and failure to distinguish 'then' from 'now'. ¿ Understand the embodied stress reactions and protective mechanisms that are brought with the War Zone Veteran when he returns to home and family and community - including the chemical imbalances that result from intense or unrelenting threat, stress, and trauma. ¿ Recognize the role of alcohol, street drugs, and prescription drugs as a self-medicating approach to control Stress Reactions. ¿ Obtain an introductory understanding of how and why providers must modify their approach to work successfully with War Zone Veterans. The 'Finding Balance ... Guide for Clinicians' documents are authored and copyrighted by Pamela Woll, MA, CADP - recipient of the 2013 Award as 'Professional of the Year' from the Illinois Certification Board (IAODAPCA), the credentialing body for addiction prevention and treatment professionals in Illinois; published in the public domain by Great Lakes ATTC (Addiction Technology Transfer Center), Human Priorities, CSAT & SAMHSA