Veterans and Family Issues and Treatments by SAMHSA and VA DoD

Course overview

This course is based upon material published by SAMHSA and Deployment Health Clinical Center, a Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Center. It is a compilation of several short Health and Human Services Publications. This course on working with veterans and family issues includes a review of the common presenting problems as well as a brief review of evidence based practices that are documented to be effective with veterans for their most common presenting problem. This course is designed for social workers, professional counselors, psychologists, nurses, and substance abuse counselors, who do clinical work. This course is appropriate for beginning, intermediate and advanced level practitioners who wish to develop their knowledge of working with veterans and their families. The course material includes a literature review of interventions. It may also be useful for licensed clinicians who require clinical continuing education courses for license renewal. course is based on a journal article which includes research. A major benefit of reading research based articles for continuing education is they provide practitioners with the latest findings in their field. Authors: SAMHSA and Deployment Health Clinical Center Learning Objectives: This course will provide the practitioner with detailed information regarding behavioral health issues among Afghanistan and Iraq US war veterans. Specifically, a professional will: Describe possible behavioral health issues among returning veterans Identify suicide prevention resources available through the VA Recognize what primary care and behavioral health providers can do to help returning veterans