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Ross Zafonte, DO: Resources for Treating Veterans and Service Members with TBI and PTSD

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Treating service members and veterans with TBI and PTSD often includes complex and unique interventions and treatments. Based on their evidence-based guidelines and experiences working with thousands of people in their two-week immersive program, Home Base also focuses intentionally and systematically on assessing what the population needs once they leave the program and return to their communities. The more Home Base can help connect their participants with clusters of experts in their areas, the more long-term healing will occur.

Ross Zafonte, DO: Barriers for Service Members Getting PTSD and/or TBI Treatment and Sticking to It

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Changes don’t happen 0-60 mph, rather they occur incrementally. Providers know that barriers can impede improvement to healing, but by setting a series of step-by-step goals—whether treatments for better sleep, pain relief, or relationship strategies— service members and veterans can see improvements to their physical, behavioral, and emotional issues and build on them from there.

Robert Shulman, MD: Interventions to Help Community Members of All Ages with Trauma

Part of Rush University Medical Center’s efforts around helping people with trauma and/or PTSD is working with the community—whether screening children more effectively during pediatric visits, working with families, or advising schools. Ongoing adverse events in inner city communities can cause young children, adolescents, and adults to experience trauma and PTSD, but these issues are treatable with professional interventions.

Robert Shulman, MD: The Efficacy of Cognitive Processing Therapy for Veterans and Other Populations

 

At Rush’s Road Home Program, providers use evidence-based cognitive processing therapies and other data-driven therapies like mindfulness to treat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This intensive treatment model effects far more cures for PTSD in veterans than the traditional, one-on-one, long-term psychotherapy model. Rush is working to offer their therapy model to other populations who may experience PTSD like police, firefighters, first responders, and emergency department staff.

Alexander Balbir, PhD: Best Treatments for Brain Injury, Mental Illness, and Drug Addiction for Military and Civilians

In our country—and around the world—we are witnessing a rise in suicide, drug dependency, and poor access to physical and mental health services. Programs like Wounded Warrior Project feel it is their responsibility to translate their best practices offered to veterans and service members for treatment and rehabilitation for these conditions to the entire country and world of civilians.

Alexander Balbir, PhD: Wounded Warrior Project Aims to Help Vets Who May Need Long-Term Care

A traumatic brain injury or repeated brain traumas can sometimes lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, astrogliosis, or other neurogenerative conditions. Since researchers are still learning about the progression of these diseases, which can stem from repeated TBIs, providers are currently trying to plan and address how to change their model of care to best help veterans and their families in the long term.

Alexander Balbir, PhD: WWP Offers Vets with TBI, Physical, Mental Health Issues Individualized Care

Wounded Warrior Project’s Independence Program does not have a protocol to work with service members and their families when they transition home from a clinical facility, but they do have a highly successful formula for independent programing that caters to the individual needs of their clients whether those needs arise from the vet’s neurological trauma or from emotional or psychological challenges that result from that trauma.

Sheila Rauch, PhD: Finding the Help and Resources Needed to Treat PTSD

Treating PTSD in post-9/11 and other veterans is best undertaken with experts in prolonged exposure and cognitive processing therapy. Experts in these therapies can be found in person or via telehealth through the Warrior Care Networks. WCN providers also share their treatment models with primary care doctors and buddy system programs to expand their reach.