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Military Culture in the Reserve and National Guard
DESCRIPTION:
The purpose of this knowledge-based educational web course is to close the gap by discussing the RC as a unique culture within the military culture that warrants awareness and understanding from health care providers. A panel of experts from various backgrounds and settings to include Guard and Reserve, officer and enlisted, line and healthcare personnel will orient learners to the basics of service in the RC and then provide a more in-depth discussion regarding how membership in the RC culture can affect the health care seeking and response of RC Service members and their families. Unique stressors of RC will be reviewed to include common deployment-related health and mental health concerns. Empirically supported strategies to best engage RC patients will be reviewed as well as expert opinions from providers with extensive experience in working with this population in a healthcare setting.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Articulate the composition and mission of the reserve component.
2. Characterize common opportunities/stressors unique to serving in the reserve component.
3. Assess strategies that healthcare providers can use to demonstrate an awareness/knowledge of the reserve component patient population.
William Brim, Deputy Director, Center for Deployment Psychology
William Brim, Psy.D., is the deputy director of the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP). He joined the CDP in 2007, initially as a deployment behavioral health psychologist at Malcolm Grow (USAF) Medical Center and has served as the deputy director since 2008. Prior to joining the CDP, Dr. Brim served on active duty as a psychologist in the United States Air Force from 1997 to 2007.
Dr. Brim received his Bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Tennessee and his Master's and Doctorate degrees in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is a graduate of the Wilford Hall (USAF) Medical Center Psychology Residency Program and the Wilford Hall Clinical Health Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program.
The focus of Dr. Brim's clinical work, supervision and training is on deployment and redeployment related to mental health issues, specifically assessment and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and insomnia. Additionally, Dr. Brim focuses on health psychology clinical practice and supervision, the integration of mental health services in primary care and offers forensic psychology expert consultation and witness services.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: William Brim has no relevant financial relationship to disclose
Nonfinancial: William Brim has no relevant nonfinancial relationship to disclose
