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Feature Topic
PTSD and Communities
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Over half of all individuals experience at least one trauma in their lifetime. Whether or not you are personally involved, you may come in contact with someone who has experienced trauma or who has PTSD. For example, you may live near, go to school with, or work with a person who experienced a traumatic event. Learn more:
More toolkits coming soon!
Mobile PTSD
On the go? Visit our mobile PTSD website from your handheld device.
PTSD Materials Now in Spanish
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This month we feature toolkits and trainings to help providers in the community who work with Veterans and their families. Most of this information can be generalized to helping those who have experienced all types of trauma. Please forward this update to those who can benefit.
VA Community Provider Toolkit: Features support for mental health providers outside of VA who care for Veterans. Learn how to connect with VA, understand military culture and find Veteran–specific mini clinics.
Toolkits for specific professionals who encounter Veterans or trauma survivors in their line of work (e.g. clergy, employers, police).
Part II: From the War Zone to the Home Front - Free Online Training
A follow up to last year's successful series, From the War Zone to the Home Front II – Supporting the Mental Health of Veterans and Families (see attached flyer for details) offers:
- 9 new trainings to help meet the needs of returning Veterans and their families
- Free, Live, online training with Q&A, for community primary care and mental health providers
- Weekly series Thursdays 3/14– 5/2, 11:30–12:30 ET (or via archive)
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Learn more and register today*
- Bonus presentation 5/30: PTSD Diagnosis and DSM–5 by Dr. Matthew Friedman, Executive Director, National Center for PTSD
As a community service CE/CMEs are available. Access 2012 archives* to view last year’s 14 sessions. Presented in collaboration with the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program.*
New Online
Caring for Returning Veterans: Meeting Mental Health Needs:* Earn CMEs via this article in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (10 pages).
Using AboutFace: Real PTSD Stories. An online video gallery dedicated to Veterans talking about how PTSD treatment turned their lives around, AboutFace can be used as a teaching tool and resource to share with other providers, students, or clients.
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms among Older Adults: A Review: Includes review of research on PTSD in older adults, including trauma exposure, epidemiology, reemergence of symptoms, and Late–Onset Stress Symptomatology (LOSS).
PTSD Assessment and Treatment in Older Adults: Discusses treatment interventions based upon patient age and the broader context of aging processes.
Updated version - Deployment Risk and Resilience Inventory–2: Learn more about this suite of 17 individual scales that assess key deployment–related risk and resilience factors with demonstrated implications for Veterans’ long–term health.
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VA Monthly Lecture Series:
PTSD Psychopharmacology Best Practices
3rd Wednesday of each month, 2 pm EST. Stay for Office Hours: Following the lecture, Q&A and relevant case consultation are provided. VA staff please email us to sign up.
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03/20/13 - Beth Cohen on Prescribing for Older Veterans – Sorting out Cognitive Decline/Dementia from Medication Effects
VA PTSD Consultation Program
Free PTSD consultation for anyone working with Veterans. Call 866-948-7880 or email ptsdconsult@va.gov.
Join our Lecture Series, based on questions posed to the VA PTSD Consultation Program:
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03/19/13 - Sonya Norman and Carie Rodgers on Addressing Traumatic Guilt in PTSD Treatment
3rd Tuesday of each month, 2 pm EST. VA staff please email ptsdconsult@va.gov to sign up.
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Research at the Center
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VA's Health Services Research and Development Service launched an innovative funding initiative, "Collaborative Research to Enhance and Advance Transformation and Excellence (CREATE)." A CREATE's interrelated research projects demonstrate that collaboration and coordination of efforts will produce new knowledge that offers a distinct advantage over pursuing individual projects separately.
The National Center for PTSD is now part of the CREATE: Evidence-Based Therapies for PTSD (EB4PTSD). Directed by Nina Sayer, Ph.D., the overall goal is to improve Veterans' access to and engagement in evidence–based PTSD treatments.
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PTSD in the News
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Leon Panetta Clears Women For Combat, Declares Right To Fight. The Huffington Post discusses women now being allowed to serve in combat roles. Includes points from a 2011 study by Dr. Dawne Vogt of the National Center for PTSD. Read more.*
More Mental Health Providers Needed at VA. Candidates are encouraged to connect with a recruiter, look for career opportunities, and find additional information on working at VA. Read more.
Interactive Media Awards. AboutFace, the online video gallery of Veterans talking about how PTSD treatment turned their lives around won Best in Class Award in the category 'Military'.* Visit AboutFace.
Please forward this update to others so they can subscribe. We send only one update per month to keep you informed of the latest PTSD developments.
Feature Topic next month: Treatment Can Help
The Staff of the National Center for PTSD
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