DSW Candidate – Destiny Breitkreutz, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
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Virtual Showcase of DSW Scholars 2025 Event!
A Leader’s Role in Military Mental Health
DSW Candidate – Destiny Breitkreutz, ASW, LSCW
Monday, April 28, 2025
9:00 AM- 10:15 AM Eastern Time Zone
Credit Hours: 1.0
Description
A Leader’s Role in Military Mental Health
Military mental health challenges, including stigma, limited help-seeking, and high rates of suicide, remain a critical issue despite ongoing interventions. These challenges demand innovative approaches to improve warfighter readiness. The session is grounded in a systematic review of military leadership and demonstrates leaders’ critical role in shaping mental health outcomes, highlighting an opportunity for expanding transitional interventions. This presentation introduces the Response Development and Intervention for Valor (R-DIV), an evidence-informed model designed to empower leaders to address barriers, foster resilience, and mitigate poor mental health outcomes.
Participants will explore how leadership behaviors influence service members; mental health, including reducing stigma, encouraging help-seeking, and mitigating suicide ideation. They will analyze systemic and interpersonal barriers, such as culture, power dynamics, and operational demands that hinder a leader’s ability to support mental health. Then, using the R-DIV framework, participants will develop adaptable leadership strategies that enhance psychological safety, promote resilience, and align with mission readiness goals.
The session positions leadership as a key factor in advancing military mental health interventions, offering strategies to guide future leadership practice to support total warfighter readiness.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this conference, participants will be able to:
- Identify contemporary issues impacting social work practice.
- Apply theories that underline interventions and approaches to addressing social and practice issues.
- Apply effective approaches to mentoring, supervision, and leading future social workers in addressing contemporary issues in social work practice.
Delivery Method: Live Interactive Training via Zoom Video Conferencing
Credit Hours: 1.0 (ACE)
Target Audience: This conference is intended for social workers and students.
Accreditation: University of Kentucky College of Social Work, Provider # 1377, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/29/22-9/29/25. Social workers participating in this conference will receive up to 15 general continuing education credits.
Claiming CE Credit: Instructions for claiming CE credit will be disseminated at the beginning of each session.
Questions: If you have any questions regarding CE credit or to report a grievance, please contact Christina Krantz at Christina.Krantz@uky.edu. For technical assistance, please contact lmshelp@uky.edu.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in these presentations are those of the individual presenters and do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of the University of Kentucky or the College of Social Work. The inclusion of any topics, perspectives, or discussions is intended for academic engagement and does not constitute endorsement by the institution.
