2026 Department of Mental Health In-Service: Tools and Strategies to Optimize Healthcare Delivery and Enhance Readiness
This in-service training focuses on interactive, trauma-informed learning by exploring grief related to suicide and understanding impacts on survivors. It addresses the impact of suicide loss, specifically in the military population. It will also explore different body systems involved in mental health diagnoses and name non-medicinal treatments.
Target Audience
This activity provides continuing education for physicians, nurses, physician associates/physician assistants, social workers, psychologists, and certified counselors. A certificate of attendance is available for other attendees.
Learning Objectives
Bridging Mental and Medical Health
- Summarize connections between medical and mental health.
- Compare how the brain and body affect each other.
- Differentiate different body systems involved in mental health diagnoses and name non-medicinal treatments.
Grief Counseling: Working with Suicide Loss Survivors
- Summarize the psychological and cultural impact of suicide loss in the military population.
- Apply evidence-based counseling and postvention practices through the implementation of a practical counseling roadmap.
- Identify ways to support survivors’ coping and resilience.
Donna Magoncia, LCSW. Presenter has no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) relating to the course content or with ineligible companies to disclose.
Jeanette James, LPC-S, NCC . Presenter has no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) relating to the course content or with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure: DHA J-7 staff, planners, authors, faculty, and content reviewers for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
How to claim CE/CME credit
Learners are expected to attend the full event to claim CE credits. Credits are awarded by session. Enter the access code, then proceed to enroll in the event. Once enrolled, click on the session and proceed to take the evaluation and posttest to claim your certificate. Evaluations open immediately after each session ends. You have until Apr 2, 2026 to claim credit.
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