CDP News: 8 August 2014

CDP News: 8 August 2014

Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. The dog days of summer are here, but the heat can’t stop us!

As part of our continuing efforts to leverage technology to help us achieve our mission even more efficiently, on Friday we’re hosting a live webinar by Dr. Paula Domenici. She will be presenting to those who have taken part in the Star Behavioral Health Providers program. The topic will be “Parents of Service Members: An Underserved Population.” We're looking forward to doing more of these events and opening them to a wider audience as well!

Speaking of the SBHP program, we’re still doing plenty of in-person training as well. We were in California for a Tier Three training on Monday and Tuesday. We’ll be headed back as we’ve got another Tier Three scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday next week. There will also be a Tier Two training in Indiana as well.

There are four weeks remaining to register for our upcoming Pacific Northwest Regional 1-Week Civilian training event in the Portland metro area. If you’re interested in more information or would like to sign up, please visit the event page here. Registration for our final 1 week training of the year will be opening soon as well. This event, our Southeast Regional 1-Week Civilian training, will be held 8-12 December in Miami, FL. Keep an eye on our training calendar or Facebook page for the latest details for this event.

We’d like to remind people about our Military and Veteran Behavioral Health Post-Master’s Certificate program. For this unique training opportunity, CDP has partnered with Widener University to teach best clinical practices to mental health providers. The program covers a wide variety of topics including military culture, the deployment cycle, challenges faced by military families, depression, suicide and many more. This program is designed for non-military mental health professionals with at least a master’s degree who are actively treating, or plan to treat, the military/veteran population. The program is held over three weekends at Widener University in Chester, PA. For more information or to register please visit the program page here.

In the CDP Blog this week, the Staff Perspective column was by Dr. Lisa French. She examined the challenges Service members face when transitioning to a civilian life and how behavioral health providers can assist. Also, don’t forget to read this week’s Research Update. It’s packed with the latest in news, journal articles and useful links from all around the Web.

That’s it for this week. Have a great weekend and we’ll see you on the other side of it!

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