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Total Credits: 1.5 American Psychological Association (APA)
In this 90-minute webinar, participants will learn strategies to enhance mental health counseling services for military-connected patients. Utilizing the concept of optimization, interventions to promote clinical efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction will be examined. The session will describe how clinical optimization can be accomplished in each of the three phases of treatment (initial, intermediate, and end). Participants will leave with knowledge about the potential benefits of focusing on optimizing clinical care when providing treatment to military-connected patients, and practical action steps to optimize mental health treatment.
Learning Objectives
The Center for Deployment Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Deployment Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
| CDP Presents- Optimizing Mental Health Treatment with Military-Connected Patients Slidedeck Handouts (1.9 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Planning for Termination of Treatment (664.9 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Starting an Evidence-Based Psychotherapy (365.1 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Case Example (134.5 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Selected bibliography and references (16.4 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
Jeffrey Cook, Ph.D. is a Director of Training and Education at the Center for Deployment Psychology. Dr. Cook retired after 23 years in the military, having served as an infantry Marine, Navy corpsman and clinical psychologist. As a psychologist, he was the Mental Health Division Officer in Okinawa, Japan; ship psychologist on the U.S.S. George Washington; and the Department Head for the Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury program at NNMC Bethesda, MD. Dr. Cook is a graduate of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences clinical psychology program, and also serves as adjunct faculty at USU. Dr. Cook’s professional interests include evidence-based treatment approaches, program evaluation, and PTSD.
