Blog posts with the tag "Guest Perspective"

Guest Perspective: Resilience as Acceptance

By Laura Reardon  on 06.12.2016 11:25 am

My husband and I joined the military in 2008 as psychology residents with the vague, distant understanding that deployment was a possibility for both of us. Just like anything that seems stressful and perhaps mildly unpleasant, but too far in the future, we paid little attention to our fears and concerns. However, I don’t think either of us anticipated that our experience with deployment would coincide with the birth of our one and only child.

Guest Perspective: Behavioral Health Consultation in Primary Care - Core Skills for Any Military Psychologist

By Katie Kanzler  on 10.05.2016 11:17 am

I was trained in the Primary Care Behavioral Health Consultation model (PCBH; Robinson & Reiter, 2016) while I was a pre-doctoral clinical psychology resident (intern) in early 2007. As a young U.S. Air Force (USAF) officer and clinician, I found the primary care rotation to be exciting and exhausting. However, as a colleague of mine says, the primary care bug bit hard and I was hooked! I enjoyed the fast-paced generalist environment and the need to be prepared for anything. After graduation, I was fortunate to continue doing part-time PCBH work until I separated from the USAF in 2015. The USAF calls their PCBH program the Behavioral Health Optimization Program, a.k.a. BHOP (USAF, 2014). I BHOPped along for a few years until I was certified as an official “mentor” by Patti Robinson in 2011. For three years thereafter, I trained residents in BHOP. I truly had no idea that the skills I learned during my residency rotation would prove so valuable not just in primary care clinics, but also in a variety of other military settings, including the deployed environment.

Guest Perspective: Recommendations on How to Best Characterize and Document Suicide Risk

By Marjan Holloway  on 03.05.2016 1:54 pm

As educators in the field of suicidology, we have often trained and supervised providers in the conduct of suicide risk assessments. In general, we have noted that while providers are becoming more knowledgeable about how to perform a suicide risk assessment, they continue to experience challenges in how to best communicate about suicide risk. Based on our experiences, we would like to provide you with some practical recommendations when completing clinical documentation and when consulting with colleagues.​

Air Force Guide for Suicide Risk Assessment, Management, and Treatment
Appendices for Air Force Guide for Suicide Risk Assessment, Management, and Treatment

Guest Perspective: Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) in a VA Hospital Setting - Findings and Observations

By Jason Goodson  on 26.04.2016 9:30 am

I have been training providers in Prolonged Exposure therapy (PE) and collecting outcome data for the past seven years.  Since I arrived at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, I have been involved in the training of approximately 45 clinicians in PE and collected outcomes for over 300 cases.  And while what follows is certainly not an exhaustive list of factors to consider in providing PE to a Veteran population, it does represent a convergence of my clinical observations and our empirical findings.  With that stated, my findings and observations in providing PE to veterans are:  1) therapist experience matters; 2) service-connection is an important issue; and 3) not enough attention is paid to safety behaviors.

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