Date/Time: On Demand, 8-30 September 2014
 

Family caregivers require and benefit from specialized support, education and understanding from health care professionals as they move through stages of adaptation that often correspond with the treatment and recovery of a service member who sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI). In 2010, the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, in collaboration with the Defense Health Board, developed a “Guide for Caregivers of Service Members and Veterans.” This guide contains four modules that provide in-depth information for family caregivers of service members or veterans with TBI. This includes information to help family caregivers understand TBI, how to advocate, help children cope with TBI and how to navigate services and benefits.

This session will review common emotional and cognitive responses, caregiver responsibilities, learning needs and educational interventions. This discussion will explore how to build a therapeutic alliance with families and resources for professionals to enhance their understanding of the family caregiver’s experience and perspective.

Target Audience: This program will be beneficial to mental health practitioners including psychologists, social workers, counselors, substance abuse professionals, case managers, clinicians and therapists. Any other mental health professionals are invited to attend.

1.25 contact hours. (Includes Social Work hours) NC AHEC is a 2014 NASW-NC approved provider of distance continuing education. This program has been approved for 1.25 contact hours. CEUs will be awarded to participants who attend 100% of this program. This program will provide 1.25 contact hours (category A) continuing education credit to NC Psychologists.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Identify signs and symptoms of secondary traumatic stress in family caregivers
• Describe caregiver responsibilities, learning needs and educational interventions
• Build a therapeutic alliance with families
• Discuss resources for professionals to enhance their understanding of the family caregiver’s experience and perspective.
• Recommend two self-regulation techniques to enhance parasympathetic nervous system function

PRESENTER:

Janet Cromer, RN, MA, BCPC
Certified Compassion Fatigue Educator
Board Certified Professional Counselor
Registered Art Therapist
Independent Consultant
Bethesda, Md.
 

HOW TO SET UP YOUR PROFILE IN ETHOS
(NEW USERS ONLY):

• You are required to set up your profile in EthosCE to receive credit after attending an event.  Click on the following link, http://continuingeducation.dcri.duke.edu/ then select Join in the upper right hand corner of the Home Page.  For further instructions please click on the following link to our quick reference card.
• The Duke CE Portal will send a confirmation notice to your email address. Open this email message and click on the link in the email to confirm your profile set up.
• The confirmation link will take you back to the Duke CE Portal where you will enter and confirm the password that you set up.
• Once you enter the password, scroll to the top of the page to see the "GREEN BANNER" that reads "The changes have been saved"
• Keep a record of the ID/password.  If you register for CME credit you will need to complete the certification process using the Duke CME Portal.

TO COMPLETE ALL COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND CLAIM CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS:

• Complete the course evaluation.
• Attest to your hours of completion.
• Download your certificate.
   

CONTINUING EDUCATION:
 

Continuing education credit is available from Duke Medicine for this On Demand session.

To receive credit, you must register no later than 6 p.m. (EDT) 26 September 2014 AND complete the course and evaluation no later than 11:59 p.m. (EDT) 26 September 2014.

Session registration opens 8 September 2014. The evaluation site opens at 8 a.m. (EDT) 8 September 2014 and closes at 11:59 p.m. (EDT) 26 September 2014.

DCoE's awarding of continuing education credit is limited in scope to health care providers who actively provide psychological health and traumatic brain injury care to U.S. active-duty service members, reservists, National Guardsmen, military veterans and/or their families.

To qualify for receipt of continuing education credit for this course, eligible participants must create a profile in the Duke Medicine Learning Management System and register for the event on, or before, the event registration deadline. Complete responses to all pre-registration questions are required to be eligible to receive credit for attending this event. For guidance on creating a user account and event registration in the Duke Medicine Learning Management System site, please visit https://www.dcri.org/cee/education/ethosce-learning-center/EthosCE_Fundamentals.pdf