7:00 pm - Stress Inoculator Webinar

Space is limited so please register here well in advance if you are interested in attending and we will email you the Zoom access link.

Come learn about stress inoculation and managing your mental health during an ongoing crisis from Dr. Karla Vermeulen, the deputy director of the Institute of Disaster Mental Health. The anniversary of the pandemic has come and gone, and it’s been a hard year. 41% of adults are reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression. You’re not alone. The good news is there are ways of fostering resilience, gaining peace, and finding joy even during hardship. We hope you will join us for this webinar led by the Institute for Disaster Mental Health, based at SUNY New Paltz, Millbrook Library will facilitate this joint collaboration with a number of other libraries in the Mid-Hudson Library System.

There will be a presentation and time for questions with Dr. Vermeulen during the hour.

Karla Vermeulen, Ph.D., is the Deputy Director of the Institute for Disaster Mental Health and an Associate Professor of Psychology at SUNY New Paltz, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in disaster mental health, grief counseling, and developmental psychology. In addition to teaching and research, she has coordinated the development and production of training curricula for the New York State Department of Health and Office of Mental Health, the American Red Cross, the United Nations, and other organizations.

She is co-author of Disaster Mental Health Interventions: Core Principles and Practices (2017), and co-editor of Disaster Mental Health Case Studies: Lessons Learned from Counseling in Chaos (2019), both published by Routledge. Her next book, Generation Disaster: Coming of Age Post-9/11, will be published in August 2021 in the Oxford University Press Emerging Adulthood series. Learn more about the book at generationdisaster.com.