The Hidden Cost of Service: Exploring Military Cultural Competency to Support Veterans and Their Families
2 Hours, 0 Minutes
Previously Recorded
Jacqueline Garrick, LCSW-C
2 CEs
Price
Paid
$39.99
Yahoo!
Webinar Description
This Class Counts Towards the Veteran Mental Health Training Requirement for Connecticut and West Virginia licensees.
Gain invaluable insights into understanding and serving the veteran population in this upcoming webinar with Jacqueline Garrick, LCSW-C. Delve into the complexities of military culture, deployment, combat, and personal trauma, gaining a deeper understanding of the psychological impact of serving in war zones. Explore cultural and mental health-based risk factors associated with military service, and discover effective tools to build resilience for veterans and their families facing unique challenges. With Jacqueline Garrick's extensive background in social work, policy, and program management, participants will benefit from her wealth of experience in improving quality of life programs and benefits for veterans. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding and support for those who have served.
About the Presenter:
Jacqueline Garrick is social worker by background, she entered the policy and program management realm upon her discharge from the US Army where she had specialized in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) recovery and transition services. She has used her clinical experiences to improve quality of life programs and benefits for veterans, their families and employees.
She has served in executive positions at the American Legion and the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Defense (DoD) and with Congress. She is a recognized public servant advocate with awards from several distinguished organizations. She is known for her work on organizational and professional development, strategic planning, programming and budgeting, legislation, oversight and investigations, personnel matters, and resilience and prevention approaches in the workplace. When she left government, she founded Whistleblowers of America (www.whistleblowersofamerica.org) to provide peer support to those suffering the impacts of retaliation and advocate for mediation and continuous process improvement. She developed the Whistleblower Retaliation Checklist© to identify retaliation and its psychosocial impacts on employees in relation to the traumatic stressor of identity disruption. She has coined the term Workplace Traumatic Stress and penned a Whistleblower Peer Mentor Code of Ethics and Workplace Promise campaign available on the WoA website.
She is a master’s graduate from Temple University with additional training at Johns Hopkins and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Although a NY native, she resides in MD and FL.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will gain enhanced insight surrounding:
- Gain deeper insight around military culture and other exposures that may result from deployment, combat or personal trauma
- Consider the psychological impact of having served in war zones
- Evaluate cultural and mental health-based risk factors associated with military service, as well as tools to build resiliency for veterans and families facing these unique challenges
Accreditation - This Webinar Offers 2 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.
- CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
CE You! maintains responsibility for this program.
This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an intermediate level, and is beneficial for intermediate level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
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