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Tom Smith, MS Psych, PD, FASCP, LMHC, NCP
President and CEO, Smith Rehabilitation Consultants, Inc.

Wednesday, November 4 07:45- 09:00 a.m.
313 - War Trauma: Helping Our Veterans Truly "Come Home"- Interventions for the Family, the Neighborhoods, the Schools, the Employers, and the Religious Community VT PT
1.25 credits - Room: Lagoon EFKL
Tom Smith, MS Psych, PD, FASCP, LMHC, NCP, President and CEO, Smith Rehabilitation Consultants, Inc.
Barbara Smith, JD, Of Counsel, Chief Operating Officer, and Executive Vice President of Smith Rehabilitation Consultants, Inc

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are returning home. Because so many are reservists, they will be coming back into civilian life.The prevalence of mental health disorders in these returning veterans is significant and very different in the clinical presentation than others with such conditions as PTSD. This seminar will address the identification of those veterans and their families in need, clinical interventions, and problems/solutions that therapists may face in providing services at all stages of the war experience, pre-deployment, deployment, and the return home.

By participating in this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Understand the importance of providing psychological, social, and/or psychiatric support for families of servicemen and service women in the different phases of War.
  2. Appreciate the need for varied services (including addressing legal issues) to be delivered in different settings, including schools, work, places of worship, etc.
  3. Gain further knowledge treating multiaxial aspects of the serviceman or service woman- and their families.
Wednesday, November 4 01:00 - 02:15 p.m.
321 - Integrative Therapies in Your Psychotherapy Practice: They Are Much More than "Complementary and Alternative Therapies" PT CAM
1.25 credits - Room: Breakers EFKL
Tom Smith, MS Psych, PD, FASCP, LMHC, NCP, President and CEO, Smith Rehabilitation Consultants, Inc.
Barbara Smith, JD, Of Counsel, Chief Operating Officer, and Executive Vice President of Smith Rehabilitation Consultants, Inc

Competent health care providers have to deal with many different aspects of their patients' lives - from social issues, financial issues, relationship issues, and cultural issues. Integrative therapies also address all of these areas. The application of Integrative therapies (which used to be known as "Complementary and Alternative Therapies") is now getting much more commonplace and is gaining in some areas of medicine greater acceptance. Your patients may be using herbs, meditation, massage, acupuncture, and aromatherapy because they believe that these integrative therapies may improve their health. As there are potential benefits and risks of these integrative therapies, whether they are being substituted for medications and/or psychotherapy or being used along with medications and/or psychotherapy, aspects of potential liability are also reviewed.

Upon the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Have knowledge of several Integrative Therapies your patients may be incorporating into their overall mental health care.
  2. See how the paradigm of patient care may be shifting to include the use of Integrative Therapies and what some of the barriers are.
  3. Understand how knowing- or not knowing- that your patient may be employing Integrative Therapies may have legal implications.

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