CDP News: June 27, 2014

CDP News: June 27, 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.  It’s been a busy week, full of training events all across the country. Next week is a holiday-shortened week, so we tried to squeeze as much as we could into this week!

We held two separate University Counseling Center Core Competency (UC4) events. On Tuesday we were at Pepperdine University in California. Then on Thursday, we presented at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque. For more information about the UC4 program, or to learn how to bring it to your local college or university, please visit the UC4 section of our website.

As part of our ongoing efforts to provide training and support for the Star Behavioral Health Providers program, CDP trainers also presented at events in Georgia and southern California. We’ll be providing another training for the SBHP program in California on Monday and Tuesday of next week as well.

This week we opened up registration for our newest online event, a training in Prolonged Exposure Therapy presented via Second Life on August 28-29. Registration just opened on Monday and the event is already almost at capacity. So if you’re interested in attended, we suggest you sign up quick! However, if you can’t make it, we’ll be adding more online training events soon!  Keep an eye on our training calendar, Facebook and Twitter pages for the latest news on these upcoming events.

If you’re more interested in face-to-face training, registration for our Pacific Northwest Regional 1-Week Civilian training event is open now. These week-long training events offer a wide variety of instruction on many topics. It’s a great opportunity for providers to increase their skills working with a military population or for those interested in learning how to start working with them.

This week we’d like to give a warm welcome to Oscar De Jesus and Marisa Moore to the CDP! Oscar is joining us as the Multimedia Specialist for our Online team and Marisa will be serving as the Administrative Assistant for our Evidence-Based Psychotherapies program. We’re looking forward to working alongside both of you!

This week’s Staff Perspective was about a new multi-year study on the effect of deployment and family life. CDP’s Dr. Marjorie Weinstock looked at the importance of and reasons behind the study. Speaking of research, don’t forget to check out this week’s Research Update. It’s got all the latest journal articles, relevant news and handy links from around the Web.

That’s it for this time around. Have a great weekend everyone and we’ll see you next week!

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