Saturday-Thursday, April 29-May 4, 2006

NCO Staff Officers Club • Camp Pendleton • Oceanside, California

Attend Two, Four or Six Days and Earn 16, 32, or 48 C.E. Hours

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This annual multi-disciplinary event brings the leading mental health professionals and chaplains in the military together to share their clinical expertise dealing with combat stress, the threat of terrorism, PTSD, and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The details of the 2006 conference were finalized on January 27, but are subject to change as a result of military deployment.

TOPICS

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GOALS

At the conclusion of this program you should be better able to:

• Gain the clinical acumen and skills necessary to respond to the psychological, mental, and spiritual needs of soldiers experiencing various acts of combat stress.

• Understand what the military is doing about terrorism.

• Provide instruction on mass casualties.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER PROFILE

Jeffrey T. Mitchell, Ph.D. is the founder of The International Critical Incident Stress Foundation Inc. and has authored many publications on crisis intervention, critical incident stress, disaster psychology, and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM). He has authored over 250 articles and 10 books in the stress and crisis intervention fields. He serves as an adjunct faculty member of the Emergency Management Institute of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He is a reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association and the International Journal of Emergency Mental Health. He has been honored by the Austrian Red Cross with a Bronze Medal for his work in crisis intervention.