Support for Working With Veterans
Overview
Veterans and their families experience and overcome unique stressors, both before, during, and after their military service. This collection highlights ways to provide skill-building and identify strengths in the veteran community. Access this collection for resources on providing support for veterans.
Courses
15 Things Veterans Want You to Know
This is PsychArmor's cornerstone course, which was created to educate anyone who works with, lives with, or cares for our military veterans. PsychArmor asked hundreds of veterans what they wanted civilians, employers, educators, healthcare providers, and therapists to know about them. These comments were then used to create the topics of this course.
Learning Experiences
Suicide Prevention and the Safe Storage of Firearms: Conversations for Everyone
There are many ways we can ensure we are as healthy as possible. We all know some of the basics: eating well, getting enough sleep, exercising regularly, and so on. Another way is the safe storage of firearms. Learn more about this and suicide prevention in this course.
Trainings
A New Theory of Moral Injury: The Moral Failure Continuum, From Moral Slip to Moral Decay
A new theory of moral injury will be introduced in this presentation. First, we will review the current definitions of moral injury and provide a reconceptualizing of moral injury based on a review of character and moral injury from classical antiquity. Next, we will discuss moral injury within a Moral Failure Continuum Framework that comprises moral slips, moral stain, moral injury and moral decay, arguing that each of these types of moral failures are unique, requiring fundamentally different interventions that range from the non-clinical to the ...
Moral Injury as an Identity Wound
In this video, Dr. Bill Nash reviews the history of two competing, overarching conceptions of psychological trauma – one conceiving of trauma as the principal result of maladaptive coping with stress, the other as a literal and enduring wound to a person’s identity or social self. The evidence supporting each conception of trauma is also considered, along with evidence that observed symptoms of moral injury in veteran and healthcare populations may best be understood as resulting from literal damage to one’s identity. Finally, Dr. Nash ...
Psychological First Aid Training for Veteran and Family Peer Access Network
A virtual training for Veteran and family peers covering the basic tools for provision of psychological and emotional support to Veterans and their families experiencing distress, including during the current COVID-19 Pandemic. This training will also review key self-care strategies to foster wellbeing and resilience among Veteran and family peers.
SITREP: New Directions in Treatment for Veterans With Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Current evidence-based psychotherapies often provide less than satisfactory results for veterans struggling with the so-called "hidden wounds of war" (e.g., PTSD, anxiety, and depression). After 20 years of continuous warfare, veterans require and demand new and effective modalities. Fortunately, important new treatments are emerging on the horizon. The FDA granted breakthrough status for treatments with psilocybin and MDMA, and veterans are the likely recipients of these emerging therapeutic practices that psychedelic-assisted therapies (PAT) typify. The clinical uses, research outcomes, and rationales for the FDA's granting ...
