TY - GEN T1 - Culturally Informed Interventions for Military, Veteran and Emergency Service Personnel: The Importance of Group Structure, Lived Experience Facilitators, and Recovery-Oriented Content T2 - Culturally Informed Interventions for Military, Veterans and Emergency Services AU - Lane, Jonathan AU - Hooff, Miranda Van AU - Lawrence-Wood, Ellie AU - McFarlane, Alexander AB - There is little available research on what constitutes a culturally informed program to treat mental health conditions among military, veteran, and emergency services personnel. The current study presents the qualitative participant evaluations of a modified group Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR) program. Participants were grouped with either lived-experience facilitators or non-lived-experience clinicians for the program, and 93 textual responses to a series of qualitative questions were analyzed. The findings suggest strong support for the postulated three primary components of a culturally informed program: a group structure; facilitation by peers with lived experience; and functional, skills-based, and recovery-oriented content. KW - emergency services KW - military KW - culturally informed KW - veteran KW - peer support KW - PTSD PY - 2022 PB - unav JO - Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship N1 -

Acknowledgements:

Dr. Lane is grateful for the support of an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship and The Air-Vice Marshall Brent Espeland Memorial Fellowship from The Road Home Foundation.

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