Star Behavioral Health Providers (SBHP) is a resource for service members and their families to locate behavioral health professionals.
Star Behavioral Health Providers (SBHP) is a resource for veterans, service members and their families to locate behavioral health professionals with specialized training in understanding and treating military service members and their families. Those listed in this registry have completed a series of trainings that are intended to make them better able to understand, assess and counsel members of the military.
Military service can bring stress not just for service members, but also for families, friends and neighbors. Deployment, reintegration and combat injuries common today can add to the mental and emotional strain. And when those stresses do occur, it is not always easy for those affected to know where they can turn for help.
To address that need the Michigan Army National Guard, the Human Development and Family Studies department at Michigan State University, the National Guard Bureau, Psychological Health Program, the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University, and the Center for Deployment Psychology have collaborated to implement the SBHP in Michigan. SBHP is a registry that helps services members and those who care about them locate civilian behavioral health professionals with special training to understand and deal with military issues.
For consumers and referring professionals, SBHP houses a unique registry where they can confidentially filter through a list of civilian health providers who have completed particular levels of educational training related to the military. For clinicians, SBHP is a comprehensive resource through which they can gain the training to serve those who serve our country.
The mission and intention of Star Behavioral Health Providers (SBHP) is to take care of Service Members in Michigan and their families. To do this, SBHP intends to recruit and train interested civilian behavioral health providers in military specific culture, and treatments that focus on the needs of the military population.
A second aspect of this initiative is to create a registry of these specially trained providers so that service members, their families, and referring professionals can access those trained providers. SBHP will manage the registry to insure providers are qualified to be listed in the registry by licensure and completion of designated trainings.
The Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) prepares health professionals to better meet the behavioral health needs of military personnel and their family members. The Michigan Army National Guard, the Human Development and Family Studies department at Michigan State University, the National Guard Bureau, Psychological Health Program, the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University, and CDP have a shared goal to create a larger network of behavioral health providers who have training specific to military issues.
With the CDP's expertise, SBHP has created a three-tiered training program. Each tier will be conducted by specially-trained teams, and will build upon knowledge from the previous tier.
-Tier 1 provides awareness about topics specific to the military and an introduction to military culture and information about deployments.
Tier 2 provides education about challenges and difficulties that may present and are often associated with the military.
Tier 3 offers clinical skills that focus on specific empirically-supported treatments to address some of the behavioral health issues facing service members, such as posttrauamtic stress disorder.
SBHP offers you the opportunity to:
-enhance and deepen you professional skill set by learning more about the unique needs of this population;
-access training specific to serving military patients creatd by the respected CDP;
-received empirically-based education that supports all branches of the military, including National Guard and Reserves, veterans, families, and their communities;
-earn recognition as having received advanced training in behavioral health issues related to the military;
-be listed on the SBHP website, where you can be easily found by service members, family and other searching for uniquely qualified providers; and
-earning continuing education credits at minimal to no cost
