Where
Association for Mental Health & Wellness2040 Ocean Avenue
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779
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Contact
Alexis Rodgers, LMSWAssociation for Mental Health and Wellness
631-471-7242 x1315
arodgers@mhaw.org
Working with Military and Veteran Families
From Assessment to Novel Treatments
3 Continuing Education Hours
LMSW/LCSW/LMHC/LCAT/LMFT
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This three hours workshop will assist agencies and providers interested in working with the military and veteran family community by sharing foundational information and best practices. The session will offer a review of the needs of children and families in the military and veteran communities, review the unique challenges and resiliencies for them, outline strategies for outreach and partnership to engage in access to care. Dr. Mayer Bellehsen and Dr. Valentina Stoycheva will discuss working with military and veteran families from the initial assessment, to identifying individual and family challenges, to engaging military and veteran families in novel treatment and resilience-building modalities.
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1) Identify two strategies for engaging military and veteran families 2) Identify the obstacles and solutions for extending care to military and veteran families 3) A greater understaing of how to identify a resilence-building intervention for military families, its goals, and specific ares of theraputic impact |
APPROVED FOR 3 CE HOURS (LMSW/LCSW/LMHC/LCAT/LMFT)
Association for Mental Health and Wellness 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. (Provider #0156)
Association for Mental Health and Wellness is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. (Provider #MHC-0014)
*New York State Office of the Professions (NYSED) regulations require that participants attend the entire approved educational activity in order to receive continuing education credits, from 9:00am-12:00pm.
Fee: $60.00
*No Refunds will be issued for cancellations
Certiticate of completion will be provided at the end of the workshop.
Space is limited! Register now!
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Mayer Bellehsen, PhD.
Dr. Mayer Bellehsen is the Director of the Northwell Health: Feinberg Division of the Unified Behavioral Health Center for Military Veterans and their Families. This site is a first-of-its kind center that seeks to model a new approach for collaboration between the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and the private health sector when treating veterans and their families. The site recently joined the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) through which Dr. Bellehsen chairs a sub-committee that is focused on enhancing partnerships between NCTSN and the VHA. Dr. Bellehsen is also the Principal Investigator for a pilot, randomized controlled trial that is evaluating the effectiveness of Transcendental Meditation as an adjunctive treatment for PTSD.
Dr. Valentina Stoycheva received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University, Garden City, NY. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn and a post-doctoral fellowship specializing in military and trauma psychology at the Unified Behavioral Health Center for Military Personnel and their Families, Northwell Health. She has received training in utilizing empirically-based treatments (EBTs) for trauma, depression, and anxiety disorders, as well as couples/family psychotherapy, and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (TF-CBT) for children.
Dr. Stoycheva has worked extensively within the field of trauma—ranging from early childhood abuse to domestic violence, to surviving natural disasters and war-related trauma—as well as with anxiety and panic disorders, mood disorders, and personality disorders. She is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. The scope of her experience includes working with children, adolescents, adults, and families, in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Her approach is integrative, blending psychodynamic, relational, cognitive-behavioral, and dialectical-behavioral techniques, tailored individually for each client. Dr. Stoycheva has also held a two-year Research Fellowship at the Pacella Parent-Child Center, New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She has taught both undergraduate and graduate-level college courses and has contributed over a dozen publications and presentations in the fields of trauma, family dynamics, and the psychotherapy process. She has recently coauthored a book on unconscious processes, to be published by the Guilford Press.