An estimated 300,000 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have experienced PTSD or major depression and an increasing number of them are seeking treatment and support in the community. As a civilian organization providing behavioral health services, you need to be informed and invested in providing culturally sensitive and clinically competent services to our Veterans. The Serving Our Veterans: Behavioral Health Certificate — from the U.S. Department of Defense Center for Deployment Psychology, National Council, and Essential Learning prepares you to better serve those who’ve served us.

Four out of 14 courses in the certificate program focus on PTSD, giving you the full picture of the epidemiology, treatment options, and cultural framework for caring for veterans and their families. The PTSD courses shed light on specific combat stressors veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars may have faced, challenges unique to veterans of these wars, and treatment considerations as they relate to frequently co-occurring concerns such as traumatic brain injury and depression.

In all, the evidence-informed curriculum offers the following self-directed, self-paced, online courses for 20+ hours of CE credit:

• Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD in Veterans and Military Personnel
• Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence
• Epidemiology of PTSD in Military Personnel and Veterans
• Fundamentals of Traumatic Brain Injury
• Improving Substance Abuse Treatment Compliance
• Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Returning Veterans
• Military Cultural Sensitivity
• Overview of Suicide Prevention
• Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD for Veterans and Military Service Personnel
• Provider Resiliency and Self-Care: An Ethical Issue
• PTSD Then and Now, There and Here
• The Impact of Deployment and Combat Stress on Families and Children
• Part I: Understanding Military Families and the Deployment Cycle
• Part II: Enhancing the Resilience of Military Families
• Working with the Homeless: An Overview

Learn more and enroll in the certificate program today for 20+ hours of CE credit at just $350 a person.