Connection and Cohesion: Resilient Providers During Stressful Times

Friday, April 22, 2022
10:00AM - 11:00AM PDT

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with Heidi Kraft, Ph.D. In this interactive presentation, Dr. Kraft will draw on experience from the military-connected community during times of war, outlining strategies proven to increase resilience in those who care for others and providing several tangible examples.

Location: Online

Continuing Education: 1 CE Credit (Applied through NASW Oregon)

Cost: Free to RVP Volunteers, Vet Center and VA Staff
$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:

Medical providers face ongoing stressors in their attempts to care for their patients in an uncertain world. Drawing on experience from the military-connected community during times of war, Dr. Kraft will outline strategies proven to increase resilience in those who care for others.

This training will review theories of resilience and will take learners through several experiential exercises to illustrate examples of evidence-based strategies for turning compassion fatigue into compassion satisfaction.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this presentation, the learner will be able to:

1. Describe several prominent theories of resilience used to train the military-connected community.
2. Discuss the vital importance of social support and how it modulates the stress response.
3. Explain the benefit of gratitude and mindfulness practices for healthcare providers.

CE Faculty
Heidi Squier Kraft, PhD received her PhD in clinical psychology from the UC San Diego/SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology in 1996. She joined the Navy during her internship at Duke University Medical Center and went on to serve as both a flight and clinical psychologist. Her active-duty assignments included the Naval Safety Center, the Naval Health Research Center and Naval Hospital Jacksonville, FL. While on flight status, she flew in nearly every aircraft in the Navy and Marine Corps inventory, including more than 100 hours in the F/A-18 Hornet, primarily with Marine Corps squadrons. In February 2004, she deployed to western Iraq for seven months with a Marine Corps surgical company, when her boy and girl twins were 15 months old. RULE NUMBER TWO is a memoir of that experience.

Dr. Kraft left active duty in 2005, after nine years in the Navy. She currently serves as Chief Clinical Officer at PsychArmor Institute, a national non-profit that provides free online education for those who live with, care for, and work with military Veterans. She is frequently invited to speak at conferences and panels on combat stress, stigma and caring for the caregiver. She is a lecturer at San Diego State University, where she teaches stress, trauma, and the psychological experience of combat, as well as Health Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, and Infant and Child Development. Dr. Kraft lives in San Diego with her husband Mike, a former Marine Harrier pilot, and her twins Brian and Meg, who have no memory of their mother’s time in Iraq.

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