2019 Annual Meeting

Serving Student Veterans: Core Competencies for Healthcare Providers and Campus Personnel (Room Director's Row E)

01 Jun 19
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Tracks: Credit-CHES, Credit-CME, Credit-CNE, Credit-CPEU, Credit-MCHES, Management, Session Badge - Campus Collaboration, Session Badge - Social Justice, Session Badge - Toolbox

CME:1.5  CNE:1.5  CHES:1.5  MCHES:1.5  PsyCE:1.5  NBCC:1.5  NASW:1.5  CPEU:1.5  

Campus Collaboration, Management, Social Justice, Toolbox

  1. Discuss how to substantiate military connected students as an area of multi-cultural diversity to improve client engagement.
  2. Describe campus challenges faced by student veterans and servicemembers.
  3. Discuss how to develop recommendations designed to enhance student outreach opportunities specific to student veterans and service members to improve clinical and academic outcomes.
  4. Discuss common clinical presentations of student veterans and servicemembers in college and university counseling centers.

Program Abstract:
This core competency workshop is designed to address cultural and clinical concerns of Veterans and Service members on a university or college campus. The program presents an overview of the experience of student Veterans and Service members, and includes challenges during deployment and reintegration on campus, campus outreach strategies, recommendations for culturally- informed assessment approaches for common presenting health/behavioral health problems.

This session is sponsored by the American College Health Foundation Health Promotion in Higher Education Fund.