Serving Those Who Served: An Overview of PTSD & Practice Guidelines to Optimize Veteran & Family Care
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This presentation will provide information necessary to improve healthcare professionals’ ability to identify veterans, military service members, and military connected family members in their practices. The presentation will provide an overview of PTSD and other invisible wounds, helpful screening tools, and special considerations when engaging with veterans and military connected family members seeking care, with the goal of increasing capacity for behavioral healthcare for this vulnerable population.
Credits: 1.50 Contact Hours; 0.50 are Pharmacology
Expiration Date: December 31, 2025
$35
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After taking part in this educational activity, participants should be better able to:
-Improving HCP ability to screen or military service and connectedness
-Provide an Introduction to Evidence Based treatments for PTSD
-Military Connected Families
Louis Chow, PhD
Senior Director of Network Development and Training Institute
Home Base
Louis Chow, PhD, is the Senior Director of Network Development and Training Institute at Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and Mass General Hospital program. He is a clinical psychologist, Assistant in Psychology at MGH, Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and specializes in the care of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other invisible wounds of war. Dr. Chow was recently appointed under Healy-Driscoll Administration to serve on the Veterans’ Home Council to ensure access to equitable, high quality competent care for Veterans across the well-being and safety of residents of MA-operated Veterans’ Homes.
Dr. Chow has overseen the education and training of thousands of clinicians and health professionals across the country seeking to care for veterans impacted by the invisible wounds of war. He has helped launch clinical programs in Florida and is supporting Home Base’s efforts to expand outreach and clinical care of historically excluded veterans. Dr. Chow is currently leading the development of new programs in Arizona.
Lauren Richards-Donegan, PhD
Director of Education and Training
Home Base
Lauren Richards-Donegan, PhD is the Director of Education and Training at Home Base and oversees the Training Institute. She is an Assistant in Psychology at MGH, and an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Richards-Donegan oversees the provision of online and in person education to mental health professionals, first responders, military connected family members, and health professionals that work with service members and their families. She also oversees all training programs within Home Base including pre-and post graduate trainees, and professional development for Home Base staff.
Dr. Richards-Donegan is a licensed clinical psychologist and provides individual evidence based treatment to post 9/11 veterans struggling with a range of invisible wounds of war. She is also a Cognitive Processing Therapy trainer and consultant. She has authored book chapters and peer reviewed journal articles related to increasing understanding of barriers to mental health treatment faced by veterans and enhancing community clinician access to training for empirically supported treatments.
CE INFORMATION
Obtain Your Credits
To earn credits for this activity, navigate to the Content(s) tab and complete all course components in the following order: 1) watch the course presentation video; 2) complete the course evaluation; 3) pass the post-test with a score of 2/3 (66.7%) or higher. You may retake the post-test until a passing score is achieved, at which point you will be able to view/print a copy of your certificate of completion. This online certificate will also be saved within your profile 'My Dashboard' -> 'Transcript/Certificates Earned' for future access.
Designation Statement
NPACE designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.50 contact hours, of which 0.50 is pharmacology credit. Participants should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation Statement
Nurse Practitioner Associates for Continuing Education (NPACE) is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC).
In addition to ANCC, NPACE is approved as a provider of continuing education in nursing by: the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP8720 and Florida CE Broker #50-1476.
DISCLOSURES
Faculty
Contributing faculty, Louis Chow, PhD & Lauren Richards, PhD have disclosed no financial relationship.
Planners
All planners and contributors involved in this educational activity have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Disclaimer
The material presented in this continuing education program is being made available for educational purposes only and is not intended to represent the best or only methods, medications and/or guidelines appropriate for the medical situation discussed. Rather the material is intended to present an approach, view, statement, or opinion of the presenter(s), which may be helpful, or of interest to other practitioners and should not be used by clinicians without the evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications on dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities. NPACE disclaims any liability, loss, injury, or damage incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any information given in a presentation.
Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
This educational activity may mention the uses of products that are not approved by the FDA for the indication(s) being discussed. The presenter(s) are instructed to notify participants when they are discussing unapproved uses or investigational agents. The opinions related to unapproved uses of products are solely those of the presenter(s) and are not endorsed or recommended by NPACE. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Commercial Support
There is no commercial support for this activity.
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