Describe Key Elements of the Group Interactive Structured Treatment (GIST) Programs
Developing elevated educational awareness at-home in order to combat TBI
Improve ability to access proper treatment
Differentiate effective and necessary improvements to strengthen the collaboration of military and civilian health care.
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Discuss clinical interpretation and experimental results.
Discuss neuroimaging patterns associated with TBI and PTSD.
Decipher the relationship between substance abuse and military personnel who have sustained trauma while at war.
Identify the proper means of treatment for returning military personnel with behavioral issues.
Recommend SAMHSA to veterans and their families in need of behavioral health / substance abuse help.
Explain the neuroanatomy of the lesion(s) can help to understand what the problems are, as opposed to considering the afflicted individual to be “willfully” misbehaving
Discuss the problems as failure to process information in particular neuro-behavioral systems, improving the approach to management.
Discuss how to tailor individual rehabilitation plans for patients who have had a traumatic brain injury.
Discuss the necessity for prehospital ventilation to decrease death rates in TBI patients.
Discuss the effectivness of prehospital ventilation and its influence on hospital care.
Deploy techniques that will positively impact TBI management once the patient is at the hospital.
Recognizing the proper atmosphere for community reintegration and involvement of those afflicted with PTSD / TBI / Polytrauma.
Differentiation and incorporation of recreational activities to improve behavioral health.
Utilize lessons learned to improve living standards in the long term.
Develop techniques to recognize and address improve cognitive rehab within a community setting.
Managing the trauma of our soldiers from pre-deployment to civilian reemerssion.
Optimize novel treatment for improving motor and speech functions after stroke and TBI.
re-attendance.
Devise an action plan accounting for reduced memory/attention, fear of crowds, poor social and academic skills.
Provide tools and cognitive prosthetic devices; such as PDAs and voice recorders.
Compare policies and programs of the DoD and USMC to their practice when addressing TBI.
Improve coordination of care from the battlefield to post-deployment facilities.
Innovate the capabilites and mission of the NICE for TBI and improve for their own application.
Reinvent patient's perspective and acknowledgement that the idea of gaining help is not submission/weak but rather empowerment.
Identify the characteristics and warning signs of military personnel with suicidal tendencies.
Describe how PTSD / TBI / Depression each play an intricate role towards suicidal tendencies.
Apply existing technology that can help this population compensate for disabilities.
Discuss why this population is especially well suited for use of assistive technologies.
Discuss the principles of assistive technology and its integration within the VA system.
Discuss the principles and practices outlined by the DoD for Burn Victims and their rehabilitation.
Discuss the effects of medical comorbidities on outcomes in burn injury.
Learn about the neuropathology associated with obesity and type two diabetes mellitus.
Discuss implications for rehabilitation and recovery.
Integrate powered mimetic prosthetics in upper and lower extemities, enabling user ability.
Identify the necessity for microporcessors within extremities.
Differentiate and implement varrying prostheic interfaces improving overall prosthetic application.
Distinguish proper time tables for implmenting newage v older technologies.
Decipher the influence of TBI on increasing PTSD / making it substantially unbearable.
Empower patients during the rehabilitation process using techniques.
What questions have arisen in your practice for which you need answers/strategies that you can implement?
Are you interested in basic, intermediate or advanced level trainings?
What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?
How can this training (the overall meeting) be improved to better impact competence, performance and/or patient/client outcomes?
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