This workshop addresses issues related to legal/ethical and chronic mood dysregulation in a Veteran population: suicidality, readjustment, anger, and trauma. A Veteran is a member of a distinct subculture, and it is important to understand suicidality and therapeutic interventions for this population. This workshop intends to provide clinicians the latest suicide assessment and DBT Social Skills training in therapy. Suicidality, mood dysregulation, anger, and trauma, as well as treatment options will be discussed. DBT Social Skills training can be effective in regulating emotions. For purposes of determining therapeutic effectiveness as well as insurance reimbursement, treatment planning would benefit from utilizing multiple self-report measures that are used in the DBT protocol. The presenter will discuss the PHQ-9, the BDI-II, the PCL-C/PCL-5, the BSL-23, and the DERS (6 subscales) to identify therapeutic gains.

Objectives

Objective #1 Based on the content of this program, participants will be able to understand Legal/Ethical issues in working with Veterans.
Objective #2 Based on the content of this program, participants will be able to learn DBT skills to manage mood dysregulation.
Objective #3 ased on the content of this program, participants will be able to learn new self-report measures to identify therapeutic gains.