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Total Credits: 1.5 American Psychological Association (APA)
In this webinar, participants will learn about key psychological flexibility processes that can be engaged to promote resilience in service members. Participants will be introduced to the psychological flexibility model (Hayes et al., 2006) and the flexibility sequence (Bonanno, 2021). The convergence of the fields of contextual behavioral science and stress/trauma on core processes of resilience will be highlighted. An in-development program for training these processes will be described (Evans et al., in press). New knowledge gained from this webinar will support conceptualization, prevention, and intervention. The skills introduced will be relevant to both treatment and training contexts.
Target Audience: For behavioral health providers who treat military personnel, veterans, and their families.
Instructional Level: Introductory
Attendees will be able to:
Appraise psychological flexibility processes relevant to resilience.
Evaluate the relationship between psychological flexibility and the flexibility sequence.
Apply evidence-based procedures for fostering psychological flexibility in the service of wellbeing and resilience.
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.
| CDP Presents-Psychological Flexibility Training to Enhance Resilience in Service Members Handout (4.2 MB) | Download | ||
Wyatt R. Evans, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist with the VA North Texas Health Care System and in private practice in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He also supports DoD-, VA-, and NIH-funded research in the areas of trauma-focused treatment, moral injury, and resilience enhancement. Dr. Evans is certified in Prolonged Exposure and trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD. His also has expertise in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and has developed programs for utilizing ACT to treat moral injury, enhance resilience, and facilitate posttraumatic growth. Among Dr. Evans’ ongoing projects are an ACT-based workbook, The Moral Injury Work, for supporting healing among those affected by moral injury and a program development study of an ACT-based training to enhance resilience among military Special Forces trainees.
