The CHANGED Program Master Series

An Evidence-Based Intervention Training Programme

For Clinicians Working With Veterans & Military Populations.

The CHANGED Program Master Series is a comprehensive, clinician-focused intervention training programme designed for psychologists, counsellors, social workers, and mental health professionals supporting veterans and military connected populations. This programme provides a structured, trauma informed framework for understanding and addressing the complex emotional, relational, and transitional challenges faced by veterans following military service. It integrates military cultural competence, deployment and reintegration impacts, family systems considerations, and best practice clinical approaches into a single, cohesive model.

At the core of the CHANGED Program is an integrated framework encompassing four essential domains:

  • Military Culture, Rank, and Structure

  • Deployment & Reintegration: Clinical Impacts and Adaptation

  • Family Systems & Deployment & Related Impacts

  • Best-Practice Clinical Guidelines for Working With Veterans

This integration ensures clinicians are equipped not only with practical intervention tools, but with the cultural and systemic understanding required to provide ethical, effective, and responsive care.

Core Clinical Focus Areas

The CHANGED Program addresses key therapeutic domains commonly encountered in clinical work with veterans, offering practical strategies that can be integrated across treatment settings.

Goal Setting & Treatment Planning

Clinicians are supported in guiding veterans to establish realistic, meaningful short and long term goals that promote stability, purpose, and forward movement during transition and recovery.

Anger & Arousal Regulation

This module provides clinicians with tools to help veterans identify triggers, recognise physiological and emotional escalation, and implement evidence based strategies to regulate anger and heightened arousal.

Clinical Communication Skills

Effective communication is central to therapeutic progress and functional reintegration. This section focuses on supporting veterans in developing assertive, clear, and adaptive communication across interpersonal, occupational, and social contexts.

Structured Problem Solving

Clinicians are guided in teaching veterans a practical, step by step problem solving framework to address real-world challenges, reduce overwhelm, and increase self-efficacy.

Emotional Regulation & Distress Tolerance

This module emphasises clinically grounded techniques to support emotional regulation, including mindfulness based strategies, grounding techniques, and reflective practices appropriate for trauma exposed populations.

Sleep Disturbance & Circadian Rhythm Disruption

Sleep dysregulation is addressed through psychoeducation and practical intervention strategies, recognising the critical role of sleep in emotional regulation, trauma recovery, and overall mental health.

Stress & Anxiety Interventions

Clinicians are supported in delivering structured interventions for both acute and chronic stress and anxiety, drawing on CBT-informed approaches and long term coping strategies.

Trauma & PTSD Awareness

This component provides clinicians with a clear framework for understanding trauma related presentations, recognising symptom patterns, and supporting stabilisation while identifying if other appropriate referral pathways for specialised trauma treatment are required.

Pro-Social Behaviour & Social Reintegration

Clinicians are guided in supporting veterans to rebuild social connection, strengthen interpersonal skills, and reduce isolation through intentional, pro social engagement.

Personal Responsibility & Agency

This module supports therapeutic work focused on accountability, values based decision making, and restoration of personal agency, without shame based or punitive approaches.

Individualised Wellbeing Planning

At the centre of the programme is the development of a collaborative, individualised wellbeing plan that integrates physical, emotional, psychological, and social domains of functioning.

Programme Structure & Clinical Application

The CHANGED Program Master Series is designed for flexibility across clinical settings and is typically delivered over 12–16 sessions, with scope for extension based on client complexity and clinical need.

Delivery Options

  • Individual Therapy – allowing for tailored, in depth clinical work

  • Group-Based Interventions – supporting peer connection, normalisation, and shared learning

The modular structure enables clinicians to integrate the programme alongside existing therapeutic models while maintaining clinical integrity and professional judgement.

Supporting Ethical, Competent Clinical Practice

The CHANGED Program Master Series provides clinicians with a structured, culturally informed intervention model that enhances confidence and competence when working with veterans. By strengthening emotional regulation, interpersonal functioning, and adaptive coping, the programme supports veterans in building meaningful lives beyond military service while enabling clinicians to deliver informed, ethical, and effective care.