About This Webinar:
The 4th and last in the Military Youth: Protecting and Promoting Resilience and Well-Being webinar series.
Families play a critical role in ensuring the mental well-being of military-connected youth. This webinar focuses on what adults inside and outside adolescents’ families can do to protect and promote their well-being, especially during transitions. Strategies for prevention and intervention for promoting youth well-being are examined.
Topics include an in-depth look at:
- The role of the family system in adolescent social and mental well-being, resilience, and positive youth development
- Military family factors that promote and challenge youth well-being during military transitions (PCS, deployment, and reintegration)
- Prevention and intervention examples from the presenters’ work that strengthen military families and adolescent well-being
- How service providers’ can apply the webinar content with military-connected families to promote adolescent well-being
Presenters:
Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Purdue University, where she directs the Center for Families, as well as the Military Family Research Institute, which she co-founded.
Dr. Patricia Lester is the Nathanson Family Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Division of Population Behavioral Health and the Nathanson Family Resilience Center at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
Continuing education credit is available.
Register: https://oneop.org/learn/150438/
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