What You Will Learn in the Military Culture-Informed Healthcare Course Series

This module provides valuable insight into the unique needs and culture of military-connected patients and equips healthcare providers with the knowledge they need to best serve this population.
Module 01 Military Culture
This module focuses on the unique clinical presentation of military service members and Veterans experiencing TBI, PTSD, Military Sexual Trauma, and chronic pain.
Module 02 Clinical Diagnosis
This module focuses on suicide prevention
in the military-connected community, empowering providers with knowledge and evidence-based techniques to make a difference for their patients.
Module 03 Suicide Prevention
This module addresses the importance
of self-care for healthcare providers and equips them with evidence-based strategies to mitigate burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma in their clinical practice.
Module 04 Providers' Self-Care

Training over 1000 students across various healthcare disciplines.

Our students have grown their skills by taking our courses. Here are just a few of their stories.

I cannot say enough good things about setting up and participating in a training series with PsychArmor. Communicating with Gloria, the event coordinator, and Dr. Kraft, the Chief Clinical Officer, was one of the best experience I have had while setting an event up with an outside organization. I truly appreciated the responsiveness and professionalism they both held while working with me and my classmate who co-sponsored this training event for fellow students at our medical school.

Dr. Kraft is a fantastic speaker who was able to draw upon her many viewpoints of and experiences in the military. She not only was able to relate personal experiences to each lesson, but those from different perspectives as a veteran, child of a veteran, spouse of a veteran, and friend of veterans. Each viewpoint holds its own weight in her knowledge of military culture and how to assess a variety of situations. Her background as a mental health provider in combat also spoke volumes to her experience first-hand with many of the metal health situations once can see and experience oneself.

As a medical student with a contract to become active duty in the Army after residency, I found these training sessions on military culture, suicide by lethal weapon, and PTSD extremely beneficial. I know that I will carry this knowledge with me though my career and future military trainings. I learned more about the community of people I will be joining after medical school as well as the potential mental health conditions that I can encounter and how to approach them. I am eternally grateful for PsychArmor for providing this opportunity and working with us to provide it for our fellow students.

I am a medical student in Louisiana. I am the president of the American College of Osteopathic Neurologists and Psychiatrists (ACONP) Student Chapter at our school, and recently, our organization worked with the Student Association of Military Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons (SAMOPS) to host Dr. Heidi Kraft from PsychArmor. Dr. Kraft kindly agreed to give three talks over three days to our student body, covering subjects such as 15 thing veterans want you to know, suicide prevention, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Our organization consists of many students interested in mental health, and our hope was to link this interest with a population that many of us were not acquainted with: veterans. I can comfortably say that our student body greatly benefited from the talk.