Course curriculum

    1. 15 Things Veterans Want You To Know (17:16 min)

    2. 15 Things Veterans Want You To Know Quiz (10-12 min)

    1. Continuing Medical Education Information

    2. VA S.A.V.E.

    3. VA S.A.V.E. Quiz (5-7 min)

    4. VA S.A.V.E. Survey - Required for CME Credit

    1. Helping Others Hold On (18:36 min)

    2. Helping Others Hold On Quiz (10-12 min)

    1. Communicating with Veterans (11:26 min)

    2. Communicating with Veterans Quiz (5-7 min)

    1. Suicide Prevention and the Safe Storage of Firearms: Conversations for Everyone (8:27 min)

    2. Suicide Prevention and the Safe Storage of Firearms: Conversations for Everyone Quiz (7-9 min)

    1. What is the Crisis Response Plan? (8:56 min)

    2. Crisis-Response-Plan-Resources

    3. What is the Crisis Response Plan Quiz (8-10)

    4. How to Use the Crisis Response Plan: An Introductory Course for People Who Support Veterans (11:45 min)

    5. Crisis-Response-Plan-Resources (5-10 min)

    6. Evaluation (5-10 min)

    7. How to Use the Crisis Response Plan : An introductory course for People Who Support Veterans Quiz (10-12 min)

About this course

  • 20 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

Select content within this pathway is approved for continuing education credit. Please review the linked information below for details regarding course credit. 

V.A. S.A.V.E. - Continuing Medical Education Credit

This course also includes

  • CEU Accredited Material

    You can gain CEU credit by fully completing the course, successfully passing the course quiz, and completing the course survey. Your status will be notified by email upon completion.

  • Supplemental Courses Available

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Instructor(s)

Chief Clinical Officer, Psych/Armor Heidi Squier Kraft, Ph.D.

"Heidi Squier Kraft received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the UC San Diego/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology in 1996. She joined the Navy during her internship at Duke University Medical Center and went on to serve as both a flight and clinical psychologist. Her active duty assignments included the Naval Safety Center, the Naval Health Research Center and Naval Hospital Jacksonville, FL. While on flight status, she flew in nearly every aircraft in the Navy and Marine Corps inventory, including more than 100 hours in the F/A-18 Hornet, primarily with Marine Corps squadrons. In February 2004, she deployed to western Iraq for seven months with a Marine Corps surgical company, when her boy and girl twins were 15-months-old. RULE NUMBER TWO is a memoir of that experience. Dr. Kraft left active duty in 2005, after nine years in the Navy. She currently serves as Chief Clinical Officer at PsychArmor Institute, a national non-profit dedicated to evidence-based education for those who live with, care for, and work with the military-connected community. She is frequently invited to speak at conferences and panels on stress, vicarious trauma, and military culture. She is a lecturer at San Diego State University, where she teaches Stress, Trauma and the Psychological Experience of Combat, Health Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Field Placement, and Infant and Child Development. Dr. Kraft lives in San Diego with her husband Mike, a former Marine Harrier pilot. Her twins Brian and Meg, who have no memory of their mother’s time in Iraq, are in college now."

Stress, Trauma, & Resilience Professor, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Division Director of Recovery and Resilience, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Craig Bryan, Psy.D., ABPP

Dr. Craig J. Bryan, PsyD, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical psychologist in cognitive-behavioral psychology. He is the Stress, Trauma, & Resilience (STAR) Professor at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and Division Director of Recovery and Resilience in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health. Dr. Bryan is the former Executive Director of the National Center for Veterans Studies at The University of Utah. He served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force as an active duty psychologist, which included a deployment to Iraq in 2009. He has published hundreds of scientific articles and several books including Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention. He is one of the nation’s leading experts on military and Veteran suicide.