The Veteran Supported Education Service Treatment Manual: VetSEd
The Veteran Supported Education Service Treatment Manual: VetSEd
The Veteran Supported Education Service Treatment Manual: VetSEd
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Covered in this section are the following competencies.<br />
Core Competencies of the Peer <strong>VetSEd</strong> Provider<br />
A. Understanding and Applying Recovery Oriented Mental Health <strong>Service</strong>s<br />
B. What I Bring as a Peer <strong>VetSEd</strong> Provider<br />
1. Recovery and <strong>Education</strong>al Stories as a Tool to Facilitate Delivery of<br />
<strong>VetSEd</strong><br />
2. Maintaining Boundaries and Ethics<br />
C. Counseling Skills for Peer <strong>VetSEd</strong> Providers<br />
1. Active Listening<br />
2. Increasing Motivation<br />
3. Problem Solving<br />
D. Knowing Your Population: Serving Returning <strong>Veteran</strong>s with Trauma and Post-<br />
Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Cooccurring<br />
Mental Illness and Substance Use<br />
1. Understanding and Serving <strong>Veteran</strong>s with Trauma and Post-Traumatic<br />
Stress Disorder<br />
2. Understanding and Serving <strong>Veteran</strong>s with Traumatic Brain Injury<br />
(TBI)<br />
3. Understanding and Serving <strong>Veteran</strong>s with Co-occurring Mental Illness and<br />
Substance Use<br />
A. Understanding Recovery Oriented Mental Health <strong>Service</strong>s<br />
A key characteristic of the <strong>VetSEd</strong> approach is that it is couched within a ―recovery‖<br />
framework. As a peer <strong>VetSEd</strong> provider, it is important to understand what this framework<br />
is. Recovery has been described by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health<br />
Administration (SAMHSA, 2006) as ―a process of change through which individuals<br />
work to improve their own health and wellbeing, live a self-directed life, and strive to<br />
achieve their full potential.‖ Recovery has also been adopted as the guiding principle for<br />
mental health services in VA i.e., a goal of the VA mental health services is to create ―a<br />
system of care that is recovery-oriented, high quality and maximizes the delivery of<br />
evidence-based practices‖ (U.S. Department of <strong>Veteran</strong>s Affairs, 2008). For many<br />
returning <strong>Veteran</strong>s, achieving full potential means increasing educational attainment, and,<br />
thus, supporting educational goals is completely consistent with a recovery framework.<br />
<strong>Supported</strong> <strong>Education</strong> is a recovery oriented service in that it ascribes to the ten<br />
fundamental components of recovery. Each component of recovery as it applies to<br />
<strong>Supported</strong> <strong>Education</strong> with <strong>Veteran</strong>s is noted below.<br />
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