Veterans and Their Partners: Mutual Support and Wellness with Mission Reconnect
Friday, April 1, 2022
10:00AM - 11:30AM PDT
With William Collinge, PhD, LCSW and Maggie Donahue, LMT, This webinar will present a home-based dyadic intervention program that Veterans and their relationship partners can participate in together, to overcome adverse impacts of deployment and separation.
Location: Online
Continuing Education: 1.5 Clinical CE Credits (Applied at NASW)
Cost: Free to RVP Volunteers, Vet Center and VA Staff
$29 for Other Community Providers
Registration is currently closed. Please contact RVP Staff at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for support.
Who Should Attend: This training is open to all RVP Volunteer Providers, social workers, mental health counselors, and community providers.
What You Will Learn:
The dyadic relationship is an important resource that can be leveraged to help both Veterans and their partners overcome adverse impacts of deployment and separation on themselves as individuals and the quality of their relationship. This presentation describes the elements of Mission Reconnect, an integrative, research-tested, home-based program for Veteran/partner dyads that employs positive psychology, mindfulness, self-compassion, and somatic approaches, including massage as a mutual support activity. The program is accessed online and via mobile app.
In research sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health with 160 couples, the program benefited both Veterans and partners with improvements in stress, depression, PTSD, self-compassion, moral injury and sleep quality. Giving massage to each other led to significant reductions in pain, tension, irritability, and feelings of anxiety and depression. Participants in this webinar will be introduced to the elements of the program, a brief overview of the research, and how to introduce and use the program in their practice with Veterans and their partners.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this presentation, the learner will be able to:
- Describe rationale for home-based, dyadic intervention for Veterans with PTSD.
- Describe potential benefits for Veterans and their partners from practicing simple massage techniques.
- Explain how simple mind and body-based practices can help regulate the neurophysiology of PTSD.
- Discuss ways to support home-based dyadic intervention for Veterans and their partners.
CE Faculty
William Collinge, PhD, MPH, LCSW, is a community-based mental health clinician in Eugene, Oregon. He serves Veterans and their families through the Roseburg VA Office of Community Care, and is a researcher in integrative health care for the National Institutes of Health. He and Dr. Janet Kahn co-led the Mission Reconnect project, which won the “Excellence in Research on Military and Veteran Families Award” from the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University. William has served as a scientific reviewer for NIH and Department of Defense research programs, and has taught in social work education and public health at several universities.
Maggie Donahue, MS, LMT, is a massage therapist in Eugene, Oregon. She has served on the staff at the University of Oregon Student Health Center, and has been an RVP provider of massage as a volunteer at the U of O Vet Center. She has worked with Dr. Collinge in the Mission Reconnect research and other NIH studies in caregiving and palliative care.
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