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CDP Presents: Suicide Prevention for Veterans with Other Than Honorable Discharges


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Average Rating:
   321
Categories:
Professional Development |  Suicide Prevention
Faculty:
Caitlin Thompson, Ph.D. |  Rajeev Ramchand, Ph.D. |  Dana Montalto, J.D. |  Thomas Burke, MDiv
Duration:
90 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Media Type:
On Demand
License:
Access for 90 day(s) after purchase.



Description

This course has expired and is no longer available.

To access the archived recording for NO CEs, view here - https://deploymentpsych.org/SP_Vets_OTHD_Archive
 
 
The aims of this program are to describe the unique population of Veterans with Other Than Honorable (OTH) discharge, and to identify suicide prevention efforts with this population of Veterans. This will be presented by a multi-disciplinary team that will consist of a psychiatric epidemiologist, a Veteran advocate who has testified on this issue, an attorney who specifically works with this population, and a clinical psychologist who specializes in suicide prevention efforts with Veterans. Presenters will lead participants through the dynamic journey of Veterans with OTH discharges from a data, legal, personal, and clinical perspective to enhance the understanding of the potential struggles with this population who has been found to be at heightened risk for suicide. Clinical strategies on how to work with Veterans with OTH discharges and their families will be explored.
 
Participants will be able to:
  1. Illustrate the unique experiences of Veterans with Other than Honorable discharges to address reasons why they may be at high risk for suicide
  2. Recommend best practices on how to clinically address mental health and other issues that may arise in Veterans with Other than Honorable discharges​

Credits


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing and passing the on-line post-test evaluation). Additional certificates are available for USD per participant (additional participant will be emailed, mailed or faxed a certificate of completion after submitting and passing a post-test/evaluation). International CE rates may vary; please contact our Customer Service at 1-800-844-8260 for more details.

Continuing Education Information: This activity is designed to qualify for continuing education for the following professionals in every state: Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers and Other Mental Health Professions

Information obtained in this course should be used within your scope of practice.

Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this self-study, non-interactive package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

CE Information is based on 100% attendance.


Addiction Counselors - Connecticut (Self-Study)

Provider #120924. This course has been approved as a CCB approved training and has been awarded 1.5 hours by the Connecticut Certification Board.


Addiction Counselors (Self-Study)

This self-study activity consists of 1.5 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


Counselors - National (Self-Study)

This intermediate self-study activity consists of 1.5 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


Counselors - New York (Self-Study)

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0033. This self-study activity will qualify for 2.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. 


Counselors - Texas (Self-Study)

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. Provider #: 2477. This self-study course qualifies for 1.5 continuing education credits.


Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists - South Carolina (Self-Study)

This program has been approved for 1.5 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Approval #4540.


Marriage & Family Therapists (Self-Study)

This self-study activity consists of 1.5 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois (Self-Study)

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. Provider #:168-000156. Full attendance at this self-study activity qualifies for 1.5 credits.


Marriage & Family Therapists - New York (Self-Study)

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. #MFT-0024. This self-study activity will qualify for 2.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. 


Marriage & Family Therapists - Texas (Self-Study)

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists. Provider # 503. This self-study package qualifies for 1.5 continuing education credits.


Nurses/Nurse Practitioners/Clinical Nurse Specialists - Generic (Self-Study)

This self-study activity consists of 1.5 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


Social Workers (Self-Study)

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), www.aswb.org through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. Licensed Social Workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social Workers will receive 1.5 (Clinical) continuing education clock hours for completing this self-study package. Course Level: All Levels.


Social Workers - Illinois (Self-Study)

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. License #: 159-000154. Successful completion of this self-study activity qualifies for 1.5 contact hours.


Social Workers - Kansas (Self-Study)

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Provider #14-006. This self-study course has been approved for 1.5 continuing education hours.


Social Workers - New York (Self-Study)

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0008. This self-study activity will qualify for 2.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. Expires: .


Social Workers/Counselors/Marriage & Family Therapists - Pennsylvania (Self-Study)

The Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the APA and the ASWB.  This course will qualify for 1.5 self-study credits.  Full attendance is required, variable credits may not be awarded per the Pennsylvania State Board.


Social Workers/Counselors/Marriage & Family Therapists/Licensed Educational Psychologists - California (Self-Study)

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #: 2087. Successful completion of this self-study course meets the qualifications for 1.0 hours of continuing education credit as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

** You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


Θ Other Professions (Self-Study)

This self-study activity qualifies for 1.5 continuing education clock hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.



Handouts

Faculty

Caitlin Thompson, Ph.D.'s Profile

Caitlin Thompson, Ph.D. Related Seminars and Products

Vice President of Community Partnerships, Cohen Veterans Network

Cohen Veterans Network


As Vice President of Community Partnerships at Cohen Veterans Network (CVN), Dr. Thompson is responsible for establishing and maintaining critical national and local collaborations between CVN and public-private partners.  She is also the lead for CVN’s suicide prevention initiatives.
She was most recently Executive Director of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Suicide Prevention, leading VA’s integrated public health approach to suicide prevention for our nation’s 22 million Veterans. She was responsible for the Office’s vision and mission, including the development of VA suicide prevention policy initiatives, education for Veterans and health care providers about suicide awareness and prevention, and dissemination and implementation of assessment and treatment strategies across the Veterans Health Administration. A licensed clinical psychologist, Thompson directed VA’s epidemiological and clinical research in suicide prevention and is recognized internationally as an authority on Veteran suicide prevention. Prior to her work in the VA Suicide Prevention Office, she spent five years as the clinical care coordinator for the Veterans/Military Crisis Line.
Thompson has a BA in music from Brown University and an MEd and PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia.

 

Financial: Caitlin Thompson is employed by Cohen Veterans Network and University of Rochester School of Medicine.

Non-financial: Caitlin Thompson is a member of the National Lifeline’s Suicide Prevention Steering Committee.


Rajeev Ramchand, Ph.D.'s Profile

Rajeev Ramchand, Ph.D. Related Seminars and Products

Senior Behavioral Scientist

The RAND Corporation


Rajeev Ramchand is a senior behavioral scientist with RAND Corporation. He studies the prevalence, prevention, and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders in adolescents, service members and veterans, and minority populations. He has conducted many studies on suicide and suicide prevention including environmental scans of suicide prevention programs, epidemiologic studies on risk factors for suicide, evaluations of suicide prevention programs, and has developed tools to help organizations to evaluate their own programs. He has testified on suicide prevention before the United States Senate and California State Senate. Other current areas of research include military and veteran caregivers (he has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on military caregivers), the role of firearm availability, storage, and policies on suicide, the impact of disasters on community health, and violent extremism.

 

 

Financial: Rajeev Ramchand is employed by the RAND Corporation and National Institute of Mental Health.

Non-financial: Rajeev Ramchand is a board member of Bastion, member of California Department of Health Care Services Suicide Prevention Hotline Stakeholder Workgroup, Associate Member College on Problems of Drug Dependence, and member of American Association of Suicidology.


Dana Montalto, J.D.'s Profile

Dana Montalto, J.D. Related Seminars and Products

Attorney and Clinical Instructor

Veterans Legal Clinic, Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School


Dana Montalto is an Attorney and Clinical Instructor in the Veterans Legal Clinic at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School. She represents veterans with less-than-honorable discharges in seeking military discharge upgrades and federal and state veteran benefits. Dana also founded and directs the Veterans Justice Pro Bono Partnership, which connects veterans who wrongfully received less-than-honorable discharges with pro bono attorneys seeking to give back to those who served. She authored Underserved: How VA Wrongfully Excludes Veterans with Bad Paper on behalf of Swords to Plowshares and the National Veterans Legal Services Program and co-authored With Malice Toward None: Revisiting the Historical & Legal Basis for Excluding Veterans from “Veteran” Services, 122 Penn. St. L. Rev. 69 (2017).
Dana received her bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Wellesley College and her law degree from Yale Law School, where she participated in the Veterans Legal Services Clinic and the International Refugee Assistance Project. She joined the Legal Services Center in 2014 as an Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellow after completing a clerkship for the Honorable F. Dennis Saylor IV of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

 

Financial: Dana Montalto is employed by the Veterans Legal Clinic.

Non-financial: Dana Montalto has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose. 


Thomas Burke, MDiv's Profile

Thomas Burke, MDiv Related Seminars and Products

Associate Minister of Children, Youth, and Families

Northfield Congregational Church


Financial: Thomas Burke is employed by High Ground Veterans Advocacy, South Lyme Union Chapel, and Norfield Congregational Church.

Non-financial: Thomas Burke is president of Yale University Student Veterans Council, Vice President of Yale University Veterans Association, and Vice President of Yale Divinity School Student Body. 


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