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Part 2: Treating the Traumatized Vet: The Veterans' Resiliency Model

Session #: 710-508
Presenter(s): Laurie Leitch; Elaine Miller-Karas
Session Length: 2 hr. 00 min.
Event: 2010 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Date: March 25-28, 2010

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As many as 20 percent of service people who've been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan meet criteria for PTSD, and 25 percent screen positive for depression--rates that are expected to rise as this population ages--so many therapists can expect to treat these veterans and their families. In this workshop, we'll explore the Veterans' Resiliency Model (VSM), a skills-based, biological approach to working with combat-zone trauma. When the focus is on biology, rather than on psychology, the shame and secrecy veterans often feel diminishes. We'll review the seven skills of VRM that help clients track their own physiological reactions and develop sensory resources that promote a greater sense of inner safety and well-being, and help restore the capacity for nervous system self-regulation. You'll leave knowing the neuroscientific underpinnings of VRM, why biological intervention is such a valuable tool, and how to use this intervention in both an individual and group setting. (This session will continue with Workshop 508.)

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