Serving Our Veterans Behavioral Health Certificate
The Serving Our Veterans Behavioral Health Certificate offers 15 self-paced online courses that are based on real-life cases and provide applicable knowledge and skills for providers to help veterans and their families build a framework of resiliency for mental health challenges or reintegration difficulties. With successful completion of this field-tested program, you will earn more than 22 continuing education units, as well as critical information about military culture and the impact of war on mental health so that you may effectively care for veterans and families who seek health services.
That’s why the National Council and Relias have developed courses to help civilian practitioners become more culturally informed and competent when serving veterans and their families.
Serving Our Veterans Behavioral Health Certificate Courses
Please check the Certificates tab of each course for a list of certificates that are available. You will take the following classes:
- Best Practices in Substance Use Treatment Compliance
- Depression in Service Members and Veterans
- Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence
- Epidemiology of PTSD in Military Personnel and Veterans
- Fundamentals of Traumatic Brain Injury
- Identification, Prevention and Treatment of Suicidal Behavior for Service Members and Veterans
- Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Returning Veterans
- Military Cultural Competence
- Overview of Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD in Veterans and Military Personnel
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD for Veterans and Military Service Personnel
- Provider Resiliency and Self-care: An Ethical Issue
- The Impact of Deployment and Combat Stress on Families and Children:
- Part I: Understanding Military Families and the Deployment Cycle
- Part II: Enhancing the Resilience of Military Families
- Working with Homeless Veterans Part I: An Overview
Military Cultural Competence
More than 2 million people serve in the Active or Selected Reserve components of the United States military around the world. Now, more than ever, there is a need for quality, culturally competent care for service members and their families.
In this course you will acquire knowledge regarding military culture so that you can understand, communicate and effectively interact with service members and their families. This course teaches you military rank structure, the branches of service along with their missions and core values, active versus reserve status components, demographic characteristics and general- and deployment-related terms. You will utilize a blend of experiential exercises and self-study to give you the tools you need to implement what you have learned.
This course is appropriate for all clinicians working with this population. A basic knowledge of the values, structure, policies and expectations of the military can promote a stronger patient-provider alliance and help develop skills to provide more effective clinical care.