CDP News: Jan. 15, 2016
Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. It’s the first full week of the New Year for us and we spent it getting back up to speed. Let’s take a look at what we’ve got going on!
On Wednesday, we held the monthly CDP Presents webinar. Laura Copland, Senior PTSD Treatment Trainer for the CDP, presented on “The Acquisition and Role of Resilience for the Warrior.” It was a very insightful talk and the participants added a lot via the discussion pod. If you missed it live, we’ll be posting a recording of the event next week. You’ll be able to find that, as well as all of our previous CDP Presents talks, here. While you’re at the CDP Presents section of our site, you can also register for next month’s event. Dr. Diana Dolan will discuss Chronic Pain 16 February, noon to 1:30 p.m. We’re still finalizing the CE information for this one, but we anticipate that participants who attend and complete a post-event evaluation and survey will be eligible for one free CE.
We also held a Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) training in Second Life on Thursday and Friday. It was our first two-day online training of the year. We’re happy to see that these training events are getting more and more popular. However, the downside is that they’re filling up quicker and quicker. Our Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression training next month has already reached capacity and we’ve been forced to cap the waiting list as well. If you’ve already been trained in CPT, there are spots available in the CPT-G events in February and March. We’ll be opening up registration for the 9-10 March Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia event at the beginning of March.
If you’re in the southern California area (or able to travel there), registration for our next Region Civilian 1-Week Training, to be held 21-25 March, in Long Beach, CA, is scheduled to open next week. This five-day event will cover a variety of behavioral health concerns facing Service members, Veterans, and their families. For more information on this program or to sign up to be notified when registration begins, please click here.
In the CDP Blog this week, Dr. Debra Nofziger looked at the question of why behavioral health providers are so reluctant to try unfamiliar treatments. This is a topic that comes up very frequently at our training events, so it’s great to see some discussion about it. This week we also unveiled a new feature on the blog. To accent our Staff Perspective, every other Tuesday, we’ll be posting a Guest Perspective blog entry. These will be from professionals and subject matter experts from outside CDP. The inaugural edition was by Dr. Anthony Doran, who used the recent movie Concussion to look at mTBIs. Also, don’t forget to check out the Research Update as usual, it’s got all the latest news, articles, and useful links related to deployment psychology.
That’s all for this time around. We hope everyone has a great holiday weekend! We’ll see you next week.
Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. It’s the first full week of the New Year for us and we spent it getting back up to speed. Let’s take a look at what we’ve got going on!
On Wednesday, we held the monthly CDP Presents webinar. Laura Copland, Senior PTSD Treatment Trainer for the CDP, presented on “The Acquisition and Role of Resilience for the Warrior.” It was a very insightful talk and the participants added a lot via the discussion pod. If you missed it live, we’ll be posting a recording of the event next week. You’ll be able to find that, as well as all of our previous CDP Presents talks, here. While you’re at the CDP Presents section of our site, you can also register for next month’s event. Dr. Diana Dolan will discuss Chronic Pain 16 February, noon to 1:30 p.m. We’re still finalizing the CE information for this one, but we anticipate that participants who attend and complete a post-event evaluation and survey will be eligible for one free CE.
We also held a Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) training in Second Life on Thursday and Friday. It was our first two-day online training of the year. We’re happy to see that these training events are getting more and more popular. However, the downside is that they’re filling up quicker and quicker. Our Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression training next month has already reached capacity and we’ve been forced to cap the waiting list as well. If you’ve already been trained in CPT, there are spots available in the CPT-G events in February and March. We’ll be opening up registration for the 9-10 March Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia event at the beginning of March.
If you’re in the southern California area (or able to travel there), registration for our next Region Civilian 1-Week Training, to be held 21-25 March, in Long Beach, CA, is scheduled to open next week. This five-day event will cover a variety of behavioral health concerns facing Service members, Veterans, and their families. For more information on this program or to sign up to be notified when registration begins, please click here.
In the CDP Blog this week, Dr. Debra Nofziger looked at the question of why behavioral health providers are so reluctant to try unfamiliar treatments. This is a topic that comes up very frequently at our training events, so it’s great to see some discussion about it. This week we also unveiled a new feature on the blog. To accent our Staff Perspective, every other Tuesday, we’ll be posting a Guest Perspective blog entry. These will be from professionals and subject matter experts from outside CDP. The inaugural edition was by Dr. Anthony Doran, who used the recent movie Concussion to look at mTBIs. Also, don’t forget to check out the Research Update as usual, it’s got all the latest news, articles, and useful links related to deployment psychology.
That’s all for this time around. We hope everyone has a great holiday weekend! We’ll see you next week.