After making the trip from Washington to San Antonio, Texas the day before I spent this day with the Battlemind training team. They deliver various aspects of the Battlemind training to Behavioural Health providers in the Army, Navy and Air Force as well as to Chaplains.
This includes Traumatic Event Management (including Battlemind Debriefing – similar to CISD), Battlemind deployment brief training, Battlemind life cycle briefing training. The training are well packaged and look professional. Although only the post deployment briefings and battlemind debriefing have research evidence proving their efficacy, there is planned research looking at the life cycle elements.
The key advantage seems to be that it all comes under one package with a common message of utilising the service persons resilience. This is in comparison to the usual illness model of most stress management presentations. The suffer a bit from mission creep sometimes and other agencies wanting to take on the Battlemind product but generally this is well advanced of anything on offer in the UK (bar TRiM debriefing).
They have given copies of various resources including training booklets and CDs of presentations, which will be great to spend more time examining when I get back to the UK.
