Supporting Veterans Facing Invisible Wounds of War
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training: The Flexible CBT Approach
As war fighters return home from combat, many veterans face serious life-changing physical trauma. Equally as serious as these physical wounds of war are the invisible wounds of war, including PTSD, TBI, depression, and anxiety. These mental health challenges veterans face are tragic and troubling because they create a rippling effect that impacts veterans’ families, friends, co-workers, and communities.
Veterans are returning home to a recession and bad economy making it difficult to find a job and reintegrate into society, which heightens the ramifications of the invisible wounds of war leading to higher rates of divorce, violence, and suicide. Veterans need effective, evidenced-based treatment for mental health issues that directly addresses the symptoms they must overcome on a daily basis.
The stigma for receiving treatment for mental health problems causes many veterans to try to deal with these issues on their own or not at all. In order to be most effective, treatment must have an immediate impact on veterans’ daily functioning and teach them the benefits of the therapy they are receiving. This will create a virtuous cycle that encourages more people to start treatment, stay in treatment, and receive the positive results from treatment.
To provide the best care to veterans, therapists must be well-trained in evidenced-based approaches in order to both deal with multiple co-morbidities and teach veterans the value of the treatment. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been proven to be effective with patients that have PTSD, TBI, and depression as well as removes the stigma from therapy by providing skills-training for veterans and families.
Atheneum Learning’s signature e-learning course uses the best evidenced-based practices of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to treat patients with multiple co-morbid conditions, including patients suffering from PTSD, TBI, depression, anxiety, and combinations thereof. Based on Dr. Edmund Neuhaus’ two decades of clinical care, teaching and research at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, this approach incorporates both cognitive and behavioral therapy in a pragmatic skills-training approach that treats symptoms to meet the various needs of veterans to improve their functioning.
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Read More about the troubling and tragic situations of our veterans on the Huffington Post
You can help by supporting the Wounded Warriors Project or IAVA.org
Filed as Veterans Mental health, Invisible Wounds of War, CBT for PTSD, CBT for TBI, Support for Veterans Families • Posted by Max Woolf on Wednesday, October 12, 2011