Description
The webinar series, Disaster Research Training for Children and Families, is intended to enhance the infrastructure and to provide the skills, information and resources needed to conduct disaster mental health research with children and families. The overall goal of Child and Family Research Training is to enhance the capacity and infrastructure to conduct rigorous disaster mental health research on children and families. This first session is 1 1/2 hours, led by Betty Pfefferbaum.
Learning Objectives
- Provide a rationale for a focus on children disaster mental health research
- List and describe types of disasters
- Describe the mission and components of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network
- Provide an overview of the Disaster Research Training Program and the role of LMRTs
Intended Audience
Pacific Northwest Local Multidisciplinary Research Team and other partners with an interest in Disaster Mental Health Research with Children and Families; Agency leads, supervisors, Local Multidesciplinary Research Team (LMRT) members
Disaster Research Training for Children and Families Webinar Series
Session 1: Disaster Research for Children and Families: Universal Training Module
Session 2: Team Building and Culturally Competent Disaster Research
Session 3: Coping and Resilience for Youth in Traumatic Events
Session 4: Research Methodology and Program Evaluation
Session 5: Children's Disaster Mental Health and Child Mental Health Screenings
Session 6: Early Interventions and Psychoeducational Group Interventions with Children
Session 7: Disaster Research Ethics: Gaps, Challenges, and Team Sustainability
Format
The series of seven training sessions was held online, using iLinc web conferencing software. The initial Universal Training Project lasted 1.5 hours. All other training sessions in this series lasted 3.0 hours. Recordings of these sessions are available below.
Session One Presenter
Betty Pfefferbaum, MD, JD, is a general and child psychiatrist and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. She is the Director of the Terrorism and Disaster Center of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network; a federal initiative to improve treatment and services for traumatized children.
