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Total Credits: 3 including 3 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 training is the first in a 2-part series about brief crisis interventions for youth suicide prevention: safety plan interventions and lethal means safety counseling. In this self-paced, interactive training, participants will learn the core components of a safety plan, as well and how to apply and tailor them based on youth’s developmental needs, family environment, sociocultural identity, and co-occurring mental health conditions. Learners will review the rationale for safety plans in suicide prevention treatment, best practices for broaching safety plan interventions, mechanisms that safety plans effective, and evidence-based safety interventions. Throughout the training, participants will see video demonstrations of safety plan intervention skills and review problem-solving case scenarios to explore strategies to engage youth and their families in the safety planning process. By the end of the training, learners will be able to explain the steps for safety planning with youth and have a greater understanding of possible adaptations to these interventions. We encourage learners to continue to the second training in this series about lethal means safety counseling with youth and families to learn more about how to practice comprehensive youth suicide prevention.
Learning Objectives:
Explain the rationale and steps for safety planning with youth and families.
Develop strategies to effectively engage parents and caregivers in the development and implementation of the safety plan 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: 3.0
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: May 19, 2022 - May 19, 2025. Social workers completing this course receive 3.0 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, Phuong Nguyen, at Phuong.nguyen.ctr@usuhs.edu.
| Publicly Available Safety Plan Resources (153.8 KB) | 4 Pages | Available after Purchase |
| References Diagnostic Consideration (166.5 KB) | 2 Pages | Available after Purchase |
| Research on Safety Plan Interventions (140 KB) | 3 Pages | Available after Purchase |
| References (239.1 KB) | 12 Pages | Available after Purchase |
| Strategies to Manage Common Safety Plan Challenges (141.5 KB) | 3 Pages | Available after Purchase |
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.
Dr. Strong is the Co-Director of Applied Research at Blue Star Families. Her work with Applied Research focuses on the annual Military Family Lifestyle Survey, as well as developing, executing, and analyzing other research projects that support Blue Star Families mission and enhance the national conversation about military families. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from Fayetteville State University and a PhD in Social Work from Rutgers University,
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.
Erin Frick, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist serving as Assistant Director, 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 the use of telehealth tools and tele-education with health care 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.
Prior to joining CDP, she worked as a contract psychologist treating active-duty military members at Travis Air Force Base, CA utilizing multiple EBPs. Before this, she worked primarily in university counseling and community mental health centers. Over the course of her career, Dr. Frick’s clinical work has focused on suicide prevention, the dissemination and implementation of EBPs, developing group therapy services in mental health clinics, training and supervising staff, mindfulness-based treatments, and the assessment and treatment of trauma-related mental health conditions.
