Mission

PTSD Resolution is a charity (No. 1133188) that helps Veterans, TA and Reservists who are struggling to reintegrate into a normal work & family life because of military trauma suffered during service in the armed forces. Trauma causes flashbacks, nightmares, anger and depression - often leading to violence, alcohol and substance abuse, job loss, family breakdown and even suicide. Through a nationwide network of 200 accredited therapists, PTSD Resolution provides treatment to enable Veterans and Reservists to resolve the mental health problems associated with military trauma that obstruct a normal range of family and work relationships.Resolution therapy is brief, with an average of just three to four one-hour sessions, conducted on an out-patient basis, to support family and work routines. Read what the patients say.. The programme is complementary to the work of other services' charities, in that it resolves the mental health issues that are barriers to successful reintegration and settlement.

Category

Health

Additional Information

• PTSD Resolution is a charity (No. 1133188) that offers counselling with a 78% success rate to UK armed forces’ TA and Regular Reserves and dependants, to relieve mental health problems resulting from military service, to ease reintegration into a normal work & family life. • The PTSD Resolution national outreach programme has over 200 counsellors.  It is private, confidential, local, and one-to-one. No referral is needed, thus reducing any sense of stigma. Counselling is brief and effective – an average of five one-hour sessions. • PTSD Resolution offers employers Trauma Awareness Training to support the successful integration of Veterans and Reservists in the workplace.  The half-day modular courses enable line managers and HR staff  to recognise potential symptoms of trauma and identify a clear route to resolving any workplace difficulties • Resolution counsellors are trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TFCBT) Treatment is consistent with the guidelines of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). The charity’s role is to provide a contact point for those requiring counselling and to arrange immediate, brief, local effective counselling , and to  record the results.  • TA and other Reserves are not required to talk about the traumatic events. The programme policy is that re-exposure is better done in the client’s visual imagination and while in a relaxed state, protecting confidentiality and reducing distress. This is a relatively new development of TFCBT, similar to Imagery Re-scripting and Reprocessing Therapy (IRRT)