Impact of Exposure to Military Stressors and Parental Trauma on Children
Thursday, October 12, 2023
8:00AM - 10:30AM PDT
with Christy Collette, LMHC
Location: Online
Continuing Education: 2.5 (Applied through NASW Oregon)
Cost: Free to RVP Volunteers, Vet Center and VA Staff and Partnering Clinics
$29 for Other Community Providers
Who Should Attend: This training is open to all RVP Volunteer Providers, social workers, mental health counselors, and community providers.
What You Will Learn:
This introductory workshop will help prepare behavioral health providers to work with children of military-connected families. We will begin by summarizing normative military family experiences and differentiating them from non-normative stressors, including parental trauma. The impact of both normative and non-normative experiences on children and family functioning will then be examined. We will also highlight specific skill-building strategies to employ with families and caregivers, focused on helping children to build resiliency and successfully navigate these military experiences. This program content focuses on the application of intervention methods for working with military children and families that have consistent and credible empirical support in the scientific literature.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this presentation, the learner will be able to:
- Distinguish between normative and non-normative stressors commonly experienced by military children and families.
- Evaluate the impact of military stressors and parental trauma on children.
- Use resources and skill-building activities with families and caregivers impacted by military experiences.
CE Faculty
Christy Collette, LMHC is a Program Associate for the Center for Deployment Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In this capacity, she is assists in the expansion of the Star Behavioral Health Providers program into new states across the nation. SBHP trains civilian behavioral health providers to work with Service members, veterans and
their families. The mission is to expand the availability of high-quality behavioral health services, especially to those in the reserve component.
Prior to coming to CDP, Christy worked at the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University. In this capacity, she worked on the SBHP program and implemented the program in a few states. She worked extensively with local, state, and national organizations to better serve the military population in Indiana.
Christy received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Ball State University. She is a licensed mental health counselor and maintained private practice for over 10 years. In this role, she worked with both individuals and families and specialized in trauma. She also worked in community mental health centers providing counseling and case management to a variety of clients during her career. Christy has over 15 years’ experience working with children through play therapy and has worked extensively with military families.
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