TREATMENT OF MILITARY POPULATIONS.

Catalog description

The focus of this advanced course is on assessment and intervention and advanced theory and evidence with military populations across the life course, especially those evidencing service-connected acute and chronic mental health problems and disabilities and challenges in community reintegration during and after military service. The course addresses the delivery of services to various military groups (service members, veterans, military families, military spouses/partners, military health disparities groups), service delivery systems (community mental health, managed behavioral health care, Veterans Health Administration, Military Treatment Facilities), and a wide range of problems, including specific training in relevant social work practice skills such as diagnosis of signature injuries using standardized instruments/protocols, prolonged exposure therapy, psychosocial rehabilitation, and deployment-related psychoeducation. Topics include well-being, ethics, treatment planning, DSM conditions (including substance use and misuse), and military culture-based syndromes. Co-requisite: SOCW 5311 . If the co-requisite is dropped, this course will be as well.