Skills for Psychological Recovery (In Person)

Program Overview: Skills for Psychological Recovery (SPR) is an evidence informed modular approach to help children, adolescents, adults and families in the weeks and months following disaster and exposure to trauma. This training offers SPR with a skills development approach, useful after the time when Psychological First Aid is utilized. SPR is designed to foster effective coping with post-disaster stresses by utilizing several core skill sets to promote the recovery of survivors, prevent maladaptive behaviors and prioritize a survivors’ resilience while focusing on individual needs and capabilities.

Goals:

• Protect the mental health of disaster survivors

• Enhance survivors’ abilities to address their needs and concerns

• Teach skills to promote the recovery of survivors

• Prevent maladaptive behaviors while identifying and prioritizing a survivor’s needs

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify and prioritize survivor’s needs.

2. Assist survivors in learning core skills by teaching:

• problem-solving skills
• promoting positive activities
• managing reactions
• promoting helpful thinking
• rebuilding healthy social connections

This is a skills-based training that presents the concepts developed by The National Center for PTSD and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, and authored by (in alphabetical order): Berkowitz, S., Bryand, R., Brymer, M., Hamblen, J., Jacobs, A., Layne, C., Macy, R., Osofsky, H., Pynoos, R., Ruzek, J., Steinberg, A., Vernberg, E., and Watson, P. in Skills for Psychological Recovery: Field Operations Guide, (2010).

Intended Audience: community and public health workers, mental health and substance abuse providers, counselors, social workers, spiritual care providers, first responders, medical field professionals and other individuals who wish to learn more about the behavioral health response to disasters.

About the Trainer:

Marylena Chaisson, LCPC
Registered Disaster Behavioral Health Volunteer and Trainer

Marylena is a registered Disaster Behavioral Health Volunteer and Trainer as well as a clinical supervisor of the case management program at Health Affiliates Maine. She is a clinical mental health counselor who has worked in rural, under-resourced Maine communities for nearly 20 years. She emphasizes holistic wellness in her work as a MHRT/C domain trainer and private Clinical Supervisor through her business, Peace Moving Forward LLC.

Registration fee: $40 (includes training, lunch and certificate)

• Fee Waiver granted for all individuals impacted by the damaging storms experienced in Maine in December 2023 and January 2024.

Payment Methods – Payable to: AdCare Maine.  Check, Agency PO, Credit Card or Cash paid at the door. Registration fee or agency PO must be received before admission to the training.

Special Accommodations – Deadline for registration is 2 weeks before the training da.  Conference site is ADA compliant.

Confirmation: Registration confirmation and site directions will be emailed one week prior to the training.

Cancellation: Cancellations must be received in writing at least 48 hours before the start of the training. Late cancellations and No shows will be charged the full $40 fee.

Questions: Visit the Disaster Behavioral Health website or contact Tammy McLaughlin at AdCare at:
Ph: 207.620.2755 TTY Relay Service dial 711
email: tmclaughlin@adcareme.org

For more information about DBH Activities in Maine, contact: Megan Salois, Disaster Behavioral Health Coordinator, Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Maine CDC Tel: 441-5466 Email: Megan.Salois@maine.gov