VA Employee Education System Free Continuing Education
PTSD and Substance Abuse

Advanced Therapeutic Techniques for Treating our Military Personnel and Their Families
http://www.southernregionalahec.org/professionals/pdf/PFCPrograms.pdf
Target Audience
This program has been planned for substance abuse professionals, psychologists, social workers, case managers and counselors. Other interested mental health or human service professionals are welcome to attend.
Program Description
As military service members return from deployment in the Middle East and settle back into their communities, families and careers, readjustment issues may lead to seeking treatment for symptoms related to PTSD, depression and substance abuse. This workshop will provide interactive skill-building for clinicians and will highlight
specific strategies for tailoring cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) for trauma-exposed veterans and their families. An overview of assessment considerations will be followed by description of CBT-based Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapies (CPT) and related strategies by expert trainers. Emphasis
is placed on adapting clinicians’ current skills to include tailored evidence-based therapies for PTSD with consideration of co morbid conditions.

Helping Patients who Drink Too Much, online course developed by the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse

Behind Bars II: Substance Abuse and America’s Prison Population is a new report from CASA showing that 1.5 million of the 2.3 million people in the nation’s prisons and jails meet the medical criteria for substance abuse or addiction and that only 11 percent receive any treatment during incarceration. According to the report, if all inmates who needed treatment and aftercare services received these services, the nation would break even in a year if just over 10 percent remained substance and crime free and employed.

To view the entire report, click here.

Increasing the Effectiveness of PTSD Treatment, a web-based educational resource developed by the National Center for PTSD: http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/ptsd101/course-modules/Increasing-Effectiveness-of-PTSD-Treatments.asp

Helping Students who Drink Too Much, online course developed by the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Publications/EducationTrainingMaterials/CME_CE.htm