MILITARY CULTURAL COMPETENCE (WJCS Staff ONLY)

Dates. 9/20/21

Time: 9:00 a.m.-10:30 p.m.

Enrollment Limited to: 20 Contact Hrs: 1.5 CEU’s: 1.5

Military veterans have a whole host of unique experiences, stressors, and traumas as a consequence of military training, deployment, and reintegration. The purpose of this presentation is to train mental health providers to understand the cultural context of military veterans and why they might be seeking treatment in the community rather than in a VA setting.

Method: Lecture; discussion.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand why a veteran might prefer to receive care at a community mental health organization, like WJCS, rather than the VA.
• Identify three common training experiences most veterans have and how those experiences might be relevant for establishing the context to discuss areas of clinical relevance.
• Identify three content areas of clinical relevance to cover when interviewing a veteran to learn about their military history.
• Identify two do’s and two don’ts when interviewing a veteran about their experiences in the military.

Instructor: Jonathan Weinstein, Ph.D. Suicide Prevention Coordinator, REACH VET Coordinator, and ACT-D Regional Trainer, VISN 2 at the VA Hudson Valley Health Care System, & Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, New York Medical College

Location: Zoom

Westchester Jewish Community Services is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0101,
and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work
as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW0067.

Please note: To receive CE credits, one must attend the entirety of the class. Partial credit will not be awarded to those who attend only a portion of the class. Therefore, late arrival or an early departure of greater than 10 minutes constitutes not attending a class in its entirety. To document attendance, participants must sign in and out of the class and complete an evaluation at the end of each class.

Refund Policy: Refundable up to 2 weeks prior to start date.

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