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Check out our newest products made by VA mental health care providers and researchers. These products address topics that impact the mental health needs of Veterans and their families. Access our full collection of products.
Caregiver Voice Hearing Experience: A Mental Health Symptom Training
This recovery-oriented training helps caregivers understand the myths and facts, symptoms, and experience of psychosis.
Gives caregivers the chance to experience "hearing voices" in an audio exercise.
Includes a step-by-step instruction manual, caregiver guide, and slide presentation for providers to deliver the training.
Trainers should be well-informed about the illnesses in which psychosis is prominent.
Published 2022 | Updated 2025
This product is a best practice.
Evidence-Based Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning for Complex Presentations: A Quick Guide
This guide will help clinicians better understand and plan treatments to address co-occurring mental health conditions. Clinicians will learn how to use measurement-based care during case conceptualization and treatment planning. They will learn to take a flexible, Veteran-centered approach to planning care over time. The guide:
Provides an overview of case conceptualization for complex presentations, including core concepts and definitions, clinical complexity and comorbidity, case conceptualization, and tips.
Discusses measurement-based care (MBC) in case conceptualization, including examples, MBC as a transdiagnostic tool, MBC quick reference, and tips.
Covers treatment planning for comorbid presentations, including clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), basic steps to treatment planning for psychiatric comorbidities, shared decision making for initial treatment planning, and tips.
Published 2025
This product is an evidence-based practice.
Minutes Matter: Options for Secure Firearm Storage
This guide and the accompanying tool are designed to help clinicians have conversations about secure firearm storage, and develop a Secure Storage Plan that Veterans can use to make changes to their firearm storage. The guide also includes information about how to use firearm cable locks on various types of firearms.
The One-Page Handout consists of a blank Secure Storage Plan that clinicians can use as a reference tool or interactively with a Veteran when discussing secure firearm storage. The plan emphasizes 1) places where firearms may be stored and 2) additional strategies to enhance storage practices.
The Short Instructions include firearm injury prevention data to support secure storage practices and instructions for developing a Secure Storage Plan.
The Full Guide includes basic information about firearms, skills for having effective conversations about secure firearm storage, instructions for developing a Secure Storage Plan, and additional resources.
The Additional Resources section at the end of this product includes links to more in-depth firearm education, places to search for storage options, and out-of-home storage locators.
Published 2025
This product is a best practice.
Picture This: A Guide to Using Photos to Support Veterans with Dementia
This guide is for caregivers who support Veterans with dementia, including family members, friends, and staff in care facilities. It offers simple steps to use photos to help Veterans feel more connected and engaged; familiar pictures can bring back feelings and memories. This guide:
Introduces photo-elicitation—a way of using pictures to recall memories and make meaningful conversations.
Aims to encourage conversation, bring out comforting emotions, and help Veterans connect past experiences to the present.
Includes appendix that has helpful questions to guide conversations with Veterans during photo sessions.
Published 2025
This product is a best practice.
Reclaiming Your Life From Headache
This workbook is for Veterans living with tension-type headache, migraine or cluster headache. It provides information, tools and simple exercises to help Veterans live a full and meaningful life — even with pain. This workbook:
Teaches three common headache types and covers treatments, tools and options for care.
Aids Veterans in exploring what is helping and not helping their headaches while practicing ways to respond to pain.
Includes worksheets and exercises to help Veterans explore and understand their headaches.
Published 2025
This product is a best practice.
Securely Storing Firearms and Medications to Reduce Suicide Risk
This comprehensive guide empowers caregivers to have meaningful conversations with Veterans about secure firearm storage and provides actionable steps for securely storing firearms and medications, ultimately aiming to reduce suicide risk. The guide:
Provides an overview of the importance of secure storage.
Discusses when and how to have secure storage conversations.
Includes a list of helpful resources with links to tools on caregiver support, secure storage, education, family and social stressors, and more.
Published 2025
This product is a best practice.
VA Cancer Care Commander: Taking Charge of Your Cancer Care
This guide shows ways to navigate the cancer care journey from diagnosis through treatment and beyond.
The guide has six sections:
Starting Your Cancer Care Journey: Gives an overview of questions you might have and the purpose of the guide.
Your VA Cancer Care Team: Introduces the members of your VA Cancer Care Team. It’s a way to learn about different roles and what resources are available.
Getting Started with Treatment: Provides an overview of the logistics—getting to appointments and what happens there.
What If I Need More Help with…? Includes common needs and concerns you may have during cancer treatment—from Advance Directives to video visits—and resources that can help with each.
What If My VA Doesn’t Have That? Gives information about how VA works with other hospitals and services to make sure you get the care you need.
Tools for You to Personalize: Provides tools for you to keep track of your health care team, prepare questions for your team, and personalize your survivorship plan with your health care team.
This guide answers many questions commonly asked by Veterans on their cancer care journeys.
Published 2024
Veteran Wellness Toolkit
This toolkit is for Veterans who want to learn tools to improve their wellness.
Part of a Whole Health approach to Veterans well-being.
Self-paced.
Self-directed (does not require a mental health professional to use).
Sections include goal setting, understanding health, wellness tools, and additional resources.
Includes practical wellness tools, such as self-compassion, gratitude, thinking positively, and eating for vitality.
Includes a Spanish-language version of the Veteran Wellness Toolkit:
Spanish and English toolkits can be used to include friends and family who prefer Spanish.
Special thanks to Armandina Garza, BS for her editorial contributions to the Spanish-language version to ensure accuracy.
Please note that the health care information provided in these materials is for educational purposes only. It does not replace the role of a medical practitioner for advice on care and treatment. If you are looking for professional medical care, find your local VA healthcare center by using the VA Facilities Locator & Directory.
