Total Credits: 1.5
This program will review research findings on military deployments, military stress, and links with children’s well-being across domains (i.e., mental and behavioral health, care-seeking, maltreatment). Findings from the Millennium Cohort Program will also be discussed with a consideration of what these Department of Defense studies can tell us about child and adolescent functioning in the face of military stress, focusing on the entire family unit and relevant theoretical approaches that may elucidate mechanisms behind family adjustment. Finally, we will ponder the healthy warrior effect and how this may help us to understand mixed results across research studies, extending these applications to clients in their unique contexts across military, family, and developmental spheres.
American Psychological Association Sponsor Approval:
The Center for Deployment Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Deployment Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Association of Social Work Boards Approved Continuing Education Provider Approval:
The Center for Deployment Psychology, #1761, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The Center for Deployment Psychology maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: May 19, 2022 – May 19, 2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 Live, Interactive Webinar continuing education credits.
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology Provider Approval:
The Center for Deployment Psychology 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-0178).
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work Provider Approval:
The Center for Deployment Psychology is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (#SW-0744).
Sabrina Richardson, PhD is a developmental psychologist interested in child adaptation to military and non-military risk, with a particular emphasis on relationship processes of resilience. She has worked at the Naval Health Research Center for the past eight years as part of the Millennium Cohort Family Study and more recently, as part of the Study of Adolescent Resilience. She also heads the Family Study child program area, coordinating child-focused projects. Among her topics of study, Sabrina has focused on military spouse adjustment to and readiness for future deployments, marital stability among military spouses, child maltreatment among military parents, and child well-being during the separation from service. Most recently, Sabrina has been studying military child mental and behavioral well-being among vulnerable groups (i.e., within married versus single parent families and across racial/ethnic group) in the newest panel of Family Study participants.
