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PTSD And Families:

Supporting Veterans, Recent Returnees, and Active Duty Personnel and Their Families

Erika Curran, LCSW
National Center for PTSD

About this Course Module

This presentation provides an overview of how families can be impacted by the PTSD of a family member and the challenges families might face in reunifying following a military deployment. The structural/strategic family therapy model will be briefly reviewed as informing the model for family assessment and treatment. Ideas for interventions that support family health and change are reviewed. Clinical examples are provided throughout the presentation.

Goal: This course provides a review of concerns a family can face when a family member has military related PTSD and/or the family is struggling with reunification following a family member's deployment.

Objectives: After viewing the presentation, the participant will be able to:

  1. Know ways a family member's problems related to PTSD can impact on the family
  2. Know how to help a family identify goals and how to support steps to meet those goals in ways that diminish the impact of the PTSD
  3. Be familiar with some of the concerns that can face families reuniting following a family member's military deployment
  4. Know how to provide support for families transitioning through the reunification process

Download course module with instructor's narration

(ZIP file - 12.3 MB)

Download Transcript (PDF)

Abbreviated instructions:

  1. Download ZIP archive of module
  2. Unzip ZIP archive of module
  3. Double-click to open "curran_families_a.pps" (do not move files out of folder)

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Download course module without instructor's narration

(ZIP file - 1.1 MB)

Download Transcript (PDF)

Abbreviated instructions:

  1. Download ZIP archive of module
  2. Unzip ZIP archive of module
  3. Double-click to open "curran_families.pps"

Read complete instructions


How to obtain Continuing Education Credits

Continuing education credits can be earned for this course. For more information and step-by-step instructions, please visit the CE Credits page. Here is the brochure required for CEs for this course.