Combat Stress Control Unit and Mental Health/Combat Stress Control Personnel's Responsibilities
Be the Army's organizational memory and advocate for stress control issues.
Be proactive and mobile and present with the troops.
Be identified with supported unit and trusted by its leaders.
Provide consultation to leaders, chaplains, medical personnel, and staffs including-
Technical supervision and training.
Case evaluation and advice.
Personnel reliability screening.
Information briefings.
Identification of stressors.
Analysis of stressors.
Stress control techniques.
Sleep planning.
Suicide prevention.
Substance abuse prevention.
Family issues.
Other areas as required.
Staff planning for combat stress control in all operations, including peacetime.
Surveys of stress in the unit, its cohesion, and readiness.
Transition workshops; enhanced organizational function.
Coordination for unit, family support groups, and support agencies.
Emphasis on prevention of stress casualties and on treatment in or close to the unit.
Assisting the return to duty and reintegration of recovered casualties into their original or new units and jobs.
Provide reorganization/reconstitution support for severely attrited units.
Provide critical events debriefings following disasters or accidents.
Provide proximate neuropsychiatric triage (sorting based on how far forward the overstressed soldier can be treated); separate other cases with serious physical or mental illness for evacuation.
Supervise or provide 1- to 3-day restoration treatment for battle fatigue casualties at medical facilities close to the soldier's units.
Provide longer reconditioning for slow-to-improve cases at a secure location, usually in the corps (for 4 to 14 days) and commz (for up to 28 days) depending on the theater evacuation policy.
Supervise or provide stabilization for acutely disruptive cases and evaluate for further treatment and either return to duty or evacuate to conus.
sábado, outubro 30, 2004
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