The 65th Medical Brigade in the Republic of Korea invited Dr. Amy Adler, Senior Scientist with the Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), and Capt. George Mesias, Clinical Social Work Researcher at WRAIR, to give talks on behavioral health at the 38th Parallel Healthcare Training Symposium in October 2024.
At the 74th annual Symposium, held in the Republic of Korea, Dr. Adler and Capt. Mesias presented on training developed and evaluated by WRAIR, including Behavioral Health Guidelines for mEdic Assessment and Response (BH GEAR), a behavioral health training package for medics to extend their capabilities in far forward, austere operational environments, and Operational Resilience Training, a frontline resilience training package for soldiers in large-scale combat operations.
BH GEAR gives medics tools and strategies to respond when behavioral health problems occur in far-forward environments and behavioral health providers are not easily available.
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