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Navigating the Battlefield at Home: Specialized Strategies for Supporting Military Families

Benjamin DeVore, PhD
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Description

This specialized workshop, led by an active-duty Navy psychologist, is designed to equip participants with the critical knowledge and skills needed to support military families effectively. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by spouses, children, and extended family members of active-duty service members and veterans, including unique stressors such as deployment cycles, frequent relocations, and service-related trauma. By the end of the workshop, participants will be equipped with practical tools to enhance their clinical approach, build trust with military families, and provide culturally competent mental health support.

Educational Goal

This workshop will equip participants with specialized knowledge of military culture and the unique challenges faced by service members’ families, including deployment stress, caregiving strain, and barriers to mental health care. Participants will learn evidence-based strategies to foster resilience, build trust, and navigate ethical and systemic considerations in providing culturally competent support to military families.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify key psychological and social challenges faced by military families, including deployment cycles, frequent relocations, and service-related trauma.

  • Discuss confidentiality complexities, military healthcare structures, and the impact of service-related stigma on mental health support.

  • Develop practical techniques to build trust, improve communication, and strengthen therapeutic alliances with military family members.

  • Demonstrate how to connect military families with available resources, community support systems, and military-specific services to improve overall well-being.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Benjamin DeVore, PhD
Dr. Benjamin DeVore, Lieutenant US Navy, obtained his Bachelors of Science in biopsychology from University of California, Santa Barbara, and completed his Master’s in Psychology at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN. Dr. DeVore went on to obtain his Psychology PhD in Clinical Science from Virginia Tech before completing his internship at Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth. He will finish his post-doctoral fellowship in Neuropsychology at the University of California, San Diego, in August 2025, and will continue serving in the Navy as a neuropsychologist after. Dr. DeVore has been the instructor of record at Virginia Tech for courses that included abnormal psychology and the biological basis of psychology. He helped run one of the largest substance abuse prevention centers in the Navy during the COVID pandemic and then served as the Command Psychologist aboard the USS Harry S Truman from 2021-2023, deploying to the Mediterranean in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Sandstone Care