Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 15 May 2025

By Shirl Kennedy  on 15.05.2025 2:45 pm

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:

● No Sky Too High, No Sea Too Rough: Qualitative Investigation of Resilience and Suicide in Special Operations Forces Service Members.
● Resilience in diversity: a restricted range of roles is associated with more severe moral injury.
● Persistence and Patterns of Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Medical, and Social Dysfunction in Male Military Veterans 50 Years After Deployment to Vietnam.

Practically Speaking: Behind the Episode - Math, Science, and Emotional Health: CBT for Suicide Prevention at School

By Carin Lefkowitz  on 14.05.2025 11:26 am
Dr. Carin Lefkowitz

Suicide is currently the second leading cause of death for youth aged 10 through 14. It’s a horrifying statistic that should spur us to action. On this episode of CDP’s Practical for Your Practice, we discuss a way to integrate emotional health into the school setting.

Research Update: 8 May 2025

By Shirl Kennedy  on 08.05.2025 10:25 am
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The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● National Guard and Reserve Families: A Parent-Led Educational Intervention.
● Cannabis Use and Misuse Following Recreational Cannabis Legalization.
● All-Cause Mortality and Life Expectancy by Birth Cohort Across US States.

Staff Perspective: Helping Clients Slay their Dragons through Therapeutically Applied Role-Playing Games (TA-RPGs)

By Brian Ludden  on 07.05.2025 11:43 am
Dr. Brian Ludden

When the world shut down in 2020, I found freedom and healing not in my living room—but in a forgotten forest, as a chaotic hero with a big sword and even bigger self-doubts. It is early March of 2020, and an unprecedented event is taking place around the world. A global pandemic on a scale that few living today have ever experienced has halted daily life as we know it. The world has shut down and for many of us the way we interact with our jobs has changed drastically.

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