EACH Department of Behavioral Health Overview

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EACH Department of Behavioral Health Overview

• EACH Behavioral Health Planning Conference
• Sheraton Hotel
• Colorado Springs, CO
• 22 MAR 2006
• COL Steven Knorr, MD

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Big Picture

• Four main services
• 55 personnel
• 35 credentialed providers
• located on 4rth floor SRP site

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Social Work

• LTC Mabel Guerra, Chief
• Family Advocacy Program
• 8 credentialed providers
• Services for families with domestic violence
• Close coordination with commanders, post agencies
• Martial individual counseling on space
  available basis
• Predominately staffed using fenced MEDCOM
• Social Work
• One full time provider individual and martial
  counseling
• SRP
• Four LCSWs
• Paid with MEDCOM Contract
• Pre and post deployment screening, unit
  consultation outreach

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Army Substance Abuse Program

• Ms. Rosemarie Hall-Heyduk, Chief
• Seven credentialed providers
• Assessment and outpatient treatment of substance
  abuse
• Commanders program
• Individual and group therapy
• DUI/DWAI Court Ordered Treatment
• Significant patient overlap with psychiatry and
  psychology patients
• Limited to active duty Soldiers

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Psychology Service

• Dr. Melissa Paliani, Psy. D., Chief
• Four clinical PhDs, three neuro PhDs, one MSW
• Initial evaluations
• Individual therapy
• Group therapy
• post deployment groups for enlisted and NCO
• life skills,
• transition
• head injury
• anger management
• stress management

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Psychology Servicecontinued

• EMDR
• Chapter clinic
• Psychological and neuropsychological testing
• Critical incident debriefing
• Medical boards and TDRL
• Command directed mental health evalutions
• Limited to active duty Soldiers

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Psychiatry Service

• Dr. Jonathan Olin, Chief
• Five psychiatrists, on Psychiatric Nurse
  Practitioner
• Intake evaluations
• Individual therapy
• Psychopharmacotherapy
• Medical board and TDRL evaluations
• EMDR
• Pre-trial evaluations
• Command directed mental health evaluations
• Limited to active duty Soldiers

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SWOT Analysis

• Strengths
• All behavioral health services under one roof
• Team approach
• Solid staffing level for Soldier population
• Weaknesses
• Inability to see Soldiers spouses and children
• Opportunities
• Potential to specialize in PTSD (center for
  excellence)
• Expand prevention and consultation services to
  combat brigades
• Threats
• Tenuous funding stream for current staffing
• Fluctuating customer population base
• Inability to control product demand

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EACH Department of Behavioral Health Overview

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