Tier Two: Overview of Military Service-Related Behavioral Health
Challenges
Please note the following description, learning objectives and CEs reflect updates implemented as of 1 October 2023.
About
This training is the second of three tiers. Tier Two provides education about specific behavioral health challenges and difficulties that are often associated with military service. Topics include PTSD, sleep disorders, suicide, and ethics. This program content focuses on application of psychological assessment and intervention methods for treating military‐connected patients who are experiencing these challenges that have consistent and credible empirical support in the scientific literature, as well as on ethical guidance that impacts civilian behavioral health clinicians who work with this population.
Length
One-day training
Earn CEs
7 CEs
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Prerequisites
Tier One training
Listed on the registry
Agenda
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Training Modules
Tier Two is comprised of four modules, including three hours of ethics training, and is
offered online. Participants must attend the training in its entirety. Below you will
find an overview for each module.
Screening for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Learning Objectives:
- Distinguish between Criterion A traumas and other distressing, aversive events.
- Screen for PTSD utilizing the PCL-5 with incoming clients.
Screening Military Members for Sleep Issues
Learning Objectives:
- Integrate appropriate measures into the assessment of insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea.
- Distinguish between patients who do and do not require a referral to a primary care doctor and/or a sleep specialist for sleep concerns.
Addressing Suicide with Military-Connected Patients
Learning Objectives:
- Develop a safety plan for suicide with patients using the seven-step process.
- Apply the principles of lethal means safety counseling when working with patients at risk for suicide.
Ethical Considerations for Working with Military Members and Veterans
Learning Objectives:
- Evaluate the definition of ethics and how it relates to the role of the mental health provider.
- Analyze five (5) ethical challenges common to mental health providers working with the military population.
- Use Gottlieb’s model to avoid dual relationships.
- Apply knowledge of the ethical decision-making process to military case examples.