The Military has its own culture — this certificate prepares you to serve them.

The Serving Our Veterans Behavioral Health Certificate offers 14 self-paced online courses that are based on real-life cases and provide applicable knowledge and skills for providers to help Veterans and their families build a framework of resiliency for mental health challenges or reintegration difficulties.

The curriculum is based on the latest evidence and clinical practice guidelines developed by the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs for treating conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, addictions, and depression. Successful completion of this field-tested program will earn you 20+ continuing education hours, as well as critical information about military culture and the impact of war on mental health so that you may effectively care for Veterans and families who seek health services.

The online courses are developed by the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University, U.S. Department of Defense and Essential Learning — the largest provider of e-learning services to behavioral health, mental health, substance abuse, addiction treatment, community health, developmental disability, community action, and child welfare service organizations nationwide. The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare has joined partnered with CDP and Essential Learning to broaden the impact of this curriculum so that professionals across the country can benefit.

Serving Our Veterans Behavioral Health Certificate
Earn 20+ hours of continuing education credit for only $350.

Here are the courses you will take:

• Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD in Veterans and Military Personnel
• Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence
• Epidemiology of PTSD in Military Personnel and Veterans
• Fundamentals of Traumatic Brain Injury
• Improving Substance Abuse Treatment Compliance
• Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Returning Veterans
• Military Cultural Competence
• Overview of Suicide Prevention
• Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD for Veterans and Military Service Personnel
• Provider Resiliency and Self-Care: An Ethical Issue
• PTSD Then and Now, There and Here
• The Impact of Deployment and Combat Stress on Families and Children:
• Part I: Understanding Military Families and the Deployment Cycle
• Part II: Enhancing the Resilience of Military Families
• Working with the Homeless: An Overview

Enroll now and get free access to any new courses added to the Certificate for up to a year after enrollment.