Public safety personnel who also have dual roles in the military are facing new challenges today. Military life and deployments often can leave the first responder/combat veteran with traumatic experiences that get “triggered” when they return to serve in their public safety roles. The young child struck by a car, entering a burning building, or the need to draw a service weapon can instantly transport our rescuer mentally back to the battlefield. These instances can be anticipated and dealt with but would you know what to do? How do you apply your CISM skills to the combat veteran?

This course is intended for CISM team peers, clinicians, chaplains, military personnel, and anyone else who may be asked to work with public safety personnel who are also in the military such as veteran’s outreach staff. The information shared and skills taught in this course have also been reported to be helpful for those who work with active duty military personnel.

 

Course Highlights

Types of symptoms present in the returning military veteran

Principles of combat stress interventions

Challenges being faced not common to previous

“Lessons learned” about combat

stress/psychological injuries

“Deadly Combat Sins”

“Battlemind” skills that must be transitioned upon retuning home

“Triggers” that can remind the military veteran of combat experience

Steps of the RESTORE protocol and where it may be used

Signs and/or symptoms of Traumatic Brain Injury

Resources for referral and/or additional help

Completion of “From Battlefield to Street: One Uniform to Another” and receipt of a certificate indicating full attendance (14 Contact Hours) qualifies as a course in ICISF’s Certificate of Specialized Training Program.

 

Continuing Education Information

Two-Day Course: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., 14 Contact Hours; 14 CE Credits for Psychologists; 14 PDHs for EAPs; 14 CE Hours for Calif. MFTs & LCSWs; 14 Contact Hours for National Certified Addiction Counselors; OR 1.4 General CEUs from UMBC

Continuing education information listed is only applicable when attending an ICISF Regional Conference.