Printer-friendly versionMilitary Implementation Summary
As psychologists and former Marine and Air Force officers, respectively, Dr. Ron Clark and Dr. Jeff Litchford clearly understand the importance of effectively addressing the issue of suicidality in the armed services. In its 25 year history, the SR® model has established itself as the only Evidence-Based, program process in the mental health and life coaching disciplines. This is why Dr. Clark and Dr. Litchford believe the "Subconscious Restructuring®" model the SR® Institute is ideally suited as the program of choice to overcome the PTSD and suicidality problems of combat-returning US Army warriors and their families. The SR® intervention is especially effective when symptoms of depression are present, as in the case of warriors suffering PTSD and suicidality.
Beginning with a rich data collection and baselining component inherent in three time-proven instruments, the SR® intervention quickly develops individual skill in subconscious communication through words and pictures. Subconscious mapping and the use of Empowering Questions allow warriors to develop a strong, enduring methodology of subconscious restructuring, as traumatic, depressive, and dysfunctional thoughts, fears, guilt, shame, and anger are replaced with more appropriate personal goal-oriented constructs. With daily practice, and over time, the old PTSD, depressive, and suicidal structure is replaced with more a more appropriate subconscious structure that supports the warriors rehabilitation process.
Implementation and integration of the SR® process will begin with SR® certification of selected Military leadership, psychiatrists, psychologists, chaplains, and Family Support Center staff, then proceed to workshops involving PTSD and/or suicidology-identified warriors and their families, then the general unit population, and their families. SR® Master-level certifiers would initially certify the leadership and intervention staff, then assist in the warriors/family workshops. Over time, each unit and base will reach a point of self-sustaining competence, and the SR® Institute staff would then both monitor incoming data from completed units and their families, and begin to implement the SR® program for other units and commands world-wide.
Relevance
As an already proven intervention program with most mental health problems over some 25 years, the SR® Process ideally teaches depressed, traumatized, and suicidal warriors and their families how to restructure their subconscious, and replace dysfunctional components with more appropriate goal-oriented words, pictures, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Unit-wide certification of key unit staff allows the SR® Program to become a warriors unit self-perpetuating healing and wellness intervention over time.