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 Who is watching a Guard member's mental health? By Dr. William Brim, Defense Centers of Excellence
 WASHINGTON, - DCoE’s Center for Deployment  Psychology is concerned with the question: “Who is treating our guard and  reserve servicemembers and their families after they leave active service and  return to their communities?” Members of the guard and reserve are more vulnerable to  chronic psychological health problems than active component service members,  and it is vital that they have behavioral health providers who are trained to  care for their needs. All of our nation’s warriors, veterans and their families  need their civilian providers to be aware of military culture and the impact  that comes from a deployment. Patients report feeling frustrated when a  provider fails to ask them about their military service or lacks knowledge of  military ethos and culture. A reason for guard and reserve members’ greater  susceptibility to chronic psychological health concerns may be that after  returning from duty, they often don’t have the same access to the military  system of support and care as their active component brothers and sisters in  arms. They may return to an inner city or a rural area for example, where they  don’t have the kind of resources they would on base. The Center for Deployment Psychology at the Uniformed  Services University has the mission of training behavioral health professionals  to work with servicemembers, veterans and their families. We have recently  started reaching out to guard and reserve networks to develop a base of  civilian behavioral health providers who can help. We’ve been connecting with the National Guard Bureau’s  state directors of psychological health to assist them in developing a network  of providers in each state who are prepared to deliver quality care to  guardsmen and their families. These state directors can serve as a helpful  resource for reservists as well. In addition, we are exploring ways we can work with the  Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs to develop a  similar kind of structure as what we have with the National Guard Bureau. We hear from providers all the time that they want to  help, but are concerned about their lack of military knowledge and want to know  more. To answer their call and help our nation’s warriors,  we’ve developed courses that teach providers about military culture, the  stressors associated with each stage of the deployment cycle and effective  treatments for some of the most common psychological health concerns affecting  military members and families. The CDP offers one, two, three and five-day training  courses specifically geared toward bringing these providers up to speed and  hopefully increasing the likelihood that they will seek out opportunities to  treat our warriors and do so with quality care. We have now provided training courses in more than half  the states and to date we have trained more than 3,000 civilian providers in  military culture, deployment cycle stressors assessment of depression, managing  suicidal behavior, and evidence-based treatments for post-traumatic stress  disorder and insomnia. Through our efforts more providers are ready and  motivated to provide quality care to our nation’s warriors. We look forward to  continuing to bolster the networks of civilian providers available to help the  underserved population of guard and reserve service members and their families. DCoE has health resource consultants available 24/7 at  the DCoE Outreach Center, who can provide you with useful information and  resources on psychological health and traumatic brain injury. The center can be  reached by phone at 1-866-966-1020 or chat live online at www.dcoe.health.mil/24-7help.aspx. Be sure to check out the guard and reserve section of  DCoE’s web site for resources and information on all things guard and reserve,  and the July issue of DCoE in Action as well.
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