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Total Credits: 2.0 This course has been approved for the following:
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Thank you for your interest in this training! The DoD Kids Team at CDP is committed to offering high-quality, evidence-based training to a broad audience. We appreciate the challenges of making time for further education amidst a busy professional schedule. That said, to ensure we can continue offering free access to these trainings, we would like you to make every effort to complete it after registering. Please only register if you have time to complete the training. Also, remember that by completing this training, psychologists and social workers can earn FREE CEs!
Description:
This self-paced, interactive training explains evidence-based strategies that behavioral health providers can utilize to assess youth for suicide risk and make a risk designation to inform a suicide prevention management plan. Learners will review the research regarding suicide risk and evidence-based strategies to conduct a comprehensive assessment based on data collected from youth interviews, behavioral observations, collateral interviews, and evidence-based tools. Additionally, learners will review strategies to adapt the risk assessment process for child development, parental engagement and cultural inclusion. Case studies embedded throughout the training will help learners extend their understanding of how to integrate risk and protective factors for suicide to designate a youth’s relative level of risk. By the end of the training, learners will be able to explain key components of a comprehensive suicide risk assessment and will have greater understanding of how to integrate these considerations to make a risk designation and formulate short- and long-term management plans to ensure youth safety.
Learning Objectives:
Apply information from a variety of variables and resources to the formulation of a comprehensive youth suicide risk assessment
Explain suicide risk conceptualization for youth
Instructional Format:
This course is available online as an interactive, reading based asynchronous webinar, including a combination of videos and activities. Participants will complete the course and take an online post-test.
Total CE Credits: 2.0
Social Workers:
Association of Social Work Boards
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: May19, 2022 - May 19, 2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2.0 Reading-Based Asynchronous Distance, Reading Based Online continuing education credits.
New York State Education Department
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).
Psychologists:
American Psychological Association
The Center for Deployment Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Deployment Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
New York State Education Department
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).
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**Inquiries regarding CE credits may be directed via email to DoD Kids Project Manager, Julie Williams, at julie.williams.ctr@usuhs.edu.
| References (447.3 KB) | 12 Pages | Available after Purchase |
| Suicide Risk Assessment Prompts (220.2 KB) | 6 Pages | Available after Purchase |
| Suicide Risk Prevention Model Resources (244.5 KB) | 2 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Erin Frick, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist serving as Assistant Director of the DoD Child Collaboration Study for the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In this role, she leads a team studying best practices for using telehealth tools and tele-education with healthcare providers and other professionals working with military children and families with developmental, emotional, and behavioral needs. Dr. Frick also leads Evidence-Based Psychotherapy (EBP) trainings and is integrally involved in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within CDP. Dr. Frick earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Manchester University (formerly Manchester College) in Indiana. She graduated with her master’s degree in mental health counseling from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, and her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Wright State University in Dayton, OH. Before joining CDP, Dr. Frick worked as a contract psychologist treating active-duty military members and utilizing multiple EBPs at Travis Air Force Base, CA.
Elizabeth Burgin, Ph.D., is a Licensed Professional Counselor serving as a Military Behavioral Health Child Counselor at the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In this role, she supports the DoD Child Collaboration Study to identify best practices for enhancing and expanding accessibility to care for military-connected children and adolescents. Dr. Burgin completed her doctoral degree in counseling at the University of North Texas and her master’s in clinical mental health counseling at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Marist College.
Prior to joining CDP, Dr. Burgin served as an Assistant Professor of Counseling, leading the Military & Veterans Counseling Program at William & Mary. Dr. Burgin’s research has focused on evidence-based practices for military populations across the lifespan, including moral injury, adverse childhood experiences, and bereavement. Dr. Burgin has also worked across diverse clinical settings, including university counseling, home-based and community agency, and public-school settings. She has counseled individuals with addictions, serious and persistent mental health concerns, adults and children within the military community, and in foster and adoption systems of care. Dr. Burgin is a Certified Child-Centered Play Therapy Supervisor and is trained in Child-Parent Relationship Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and EMDR.
As a military spouse and mental health practitioner, Dr. Burgin experiences military life and navigates military systems of care daily, informing her work at CDP.
Shantel Fernandez Lopez, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist serving as a Military Behavioral Health Child Psychologist at the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In this role, she supports a study focused on the identification and enhancement of evidence-based treatment delivery to youth with neurodevelopmental and behavioral health needs via telehealth and tele-education. Dr. Fernandez Lopez also provides Evidence-Based Psychotherapy training. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her doctoral degree in clinical psychology was earned from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dr. Fernandez Lopez completed her internship at the Medical University of South Carolina Consortium and postdoctoral fellowship at Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC).
Prior to joining CDP, Dr. Fernandez Lopez worked at TAMC for 14 years serving in various positions such as the Director of Clinical Training of the Child Psychology Fellowship Program and the Clinical Director of the Early Behavioral Health Team. She also engaged in direct clinical care in private practice, community clinics, and taught university students. Dr. Fernandez Lopez specializes in conduct problems, sleep, and trauma in children. She is a credentialed trainer in Parent Child Interaction Therapy and a trainer/consultant for PracticeWise. Additionally, Dr. Fernandez Lopez is one of the developers of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Nightmares in Children.
Khristine Heflin, MSW, LCSW-C, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has been practicing since 2006. Currently, she serves as a Military Behavioral Health Child Social Worker with the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences located in Bethesda, MD. In this role, Ms. Heflin works on the Department of Defense Child Collaboration Study and is responsible for identifying best practices for expanding telehealth services to military children and delivering evidenced based training to behavioral health clinicians and community providers caring for military children and families. Her educational background includes a Master’s degree in Social Work with a clinical concentration in mental health, families and children from the University of Maryland, Baltimore and Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park.
