Veterans Awareness Workshop
Directed towards health and social care professionals Veterans Awareness Workshops aim to foster understanding of the unique needs of the veterans community, enabling professionals to offer a higher degree of empathy to clients they have who may be ex-armed forces. It consists of resettlement issues, psychological trauma, anger, alcohol and homelessness.
Veterans Mental Health Awareness Intervention for Families & Friends
Have you noticed changes in your loved ones/friends who serve or who have served in the armed forces? Do you find it difficult relating to them now? This intervention aims to demystify and shed light on common military mental health problems and the causes, problems faced by both veterans and serving personnel. The intervention is directed towards concerned relatives or friends of veterans/serving personnel and the aim is to assist families/friends in supporting their loved ones.
Anxiety Awareness/Symptom Management
Did you know that there is a very good evolutionary reason for individuals to experience symptoms of anxiety? Well there is! This means you don't have to worry about becoming a nervous wreck the chances are the your reactions are normal but in today's society they can appear to be out of proportion with the threat posed. The good news is that with some awareness of why anxiety and panic attacks happen along with coping strategies you can overcome this seemingly debilitating condition. This course lasts 10 weeks with one session per week and is for veterans who experience anxiety to the extent that this has become a problem for them.
Anger Management
Anger is a normal human response to certain stimuli but if left unchecked it can become a problem when this happens it can lead to all kinds of problems. These may include: Marital violence, manslaughter, loss of liberty, loss of social circle, loss of social status the list could go on. In a similar way to anxiety anger can be treated with awareness of your own anger threshold along with awareness of self and behaviour when angry together with relaxation techniques and other coping strategies.
