Veteran Crisis Bootcamp

MOS? Bravo Zulu? Oscar Mike? PCS? FOB? Charlie Foxtrot? Join this presentation exploring common military terms, veteran eras, and how service context shapes clinical presentation. We examine key stressors affecting veterans and their families and apply trauma-informed best practices for engaging veterans in crisis.

Learning objectives:

• Explain the different eras of veterans
• List common stressors experienced in the military by service members and their family members
• Describe various clinical presentations common in veterans
• Apply best practice strategies to engaging with veterans in crisis using a trauma-informed lens

Bio:

Lauren Marlotte is the Director of Learning and Development within the UCLA Division of Population Behavioral Health. She oversees adult learning content on a comprehensive Learning Management System designed to improve trauma- and resilience-informed practices across a variety of professional sectors. She is also an attending supervisor at the UCLA-VA Veteran Family Wellbeing Center and a behavioral health examiner for veterans seeking compensation and pension benefits. Dr. Marlotte is a licensed clinical psychologist and board-certified in child and adolescent psychology. Dr. Marlotte also serves as a consultant to Canine Inspired Change and is on the board of directors of Hold Your Horses. Both organizations are Minnesota-based and provide animal-assisted therapeutic services. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where she specialized in working with adolescents and their families. She received the Exemplary Scholar Award from CHLA as a result of her research on youth who are homeless and their experiences of trauma, mental health symptoms, and self-injurious behaviors. More recently, she was awarded the Cultural North Star and Cultural North Star in Action awards from UCLA. Dr. Marlotte completed a yoga teacher training in 2021 and currently teaches yoga in South Minneapolis at the YMCA.