Total Credits: 1.5
U.S. military service members, veterans, and their families increasingly seek care from providers with limited knowledge of military culture. The 16-item core DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) was designed to integrate cultural factors into assessment and treatment of mental disorders. Although the CFI was designed for use with all patients, it is unknown whether the CFI adequately assesses military culture. This presentation describes a methodology used to determine the need for specific CFI versions and the creation of a version for use with persons affiliated with the military. The presenters will offer an overview of the CFI-Military Version for Active-Duty Members, Veterans, and their Families.
Attendees will be able to:
1. Explain the relevance of military culture to the clinical treatment of Service members
2. Integrate the CFI-Military Version into the assessment of Active Duty Members, Veterans and their families.
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
Lt Col Meyer is the Psychiatry Consultant to the US Air Force Surgeon General and Deputy Directory of Psychological Health. He is also a professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Military & Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University (USUHS). Dr. Meyer is a lead instructor and author for the Defense Institute for Medical Operation’s “Military Mental Health” and “Disaster Mental Health” courses, which he has delivered to coalition forces around the globe. As part of this interest, he has also published extensively on military cultural competence. Most recently his military cultural formulation interview was added to the DSM-5-TR.
