CDP News: Nov.29, 2013
Happy post-Thanksgiving Friday everyone! Welcome to this week’s CDP News, where we take a few moments to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, as well as look forward to upcoming events. It’s been a short week, so this will be a short update, but we’d like to start off by mentioning a recent segment on the news program 60 Minutes. This segment focused on the use of Prolonged Exposure Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy to treat Veterans for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The story can be viewed here. It’s a powerful piece that helps illustrate the importance of CDP’s mission to help teach military and civilian providers how to use these evidence-based treatments. It’s great to see these treatments in such a high-profile spotlight. Hopefully, this will encourage Service members and Veterans to seek help and show providers that there are effective ways to treat them.
This week’s Staff Perspectives column was by Dr. Marjorie Weinstock, as she took a look at some important literature on the topic of military families, the fall 2013 edition of “The Future of Children”. It’s an interesting overview of military children and families and some of the important issues that affect them. Take a few minutes to read the piece if you missed it this week.
On the upcoming training front, the December iteration of our military-orientated “Topics in Deployment Psychology” training kicks off one week from Monday on 9 December. This eight-day session brings in military providers from different branches of the Armed Forces and trains them on a wide variety of topics, including unique stressors of the deployment cycle, trauma and resilience, ethics, balancing the needs of the military with those of the individual Service member, and many other topics. For more information on the course, visit its section on our website here.
That’s all for this week. We hope everyone continues to enjoy their holiday weekend! We’ll see you back here next week!
Happy post-Thanksgiving Friday everyone! Welcome to this week’s CDP News, where we take a few moments to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, as well as look forward to upcoming events. It’s been a short week, so this will be a short update, but we’d like to start off by mentioning a recent segment on the news program 60 Minutes. This segment focused on the use of Prolonged Exposure Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy to treat Veterans for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The story can be viewed here. It’s a powerful piece that helps illustrate the importance of CDP’s mission to help teach military and civilian providers how to use these evidence-based treatments. It’s great to see these treatments in such a high-profile spotlight. Hopefully, this will encourage Service members and Veterans to seek help and show providers that there are effective ways to treat them.
This week’s Staff Perspectives column was by Dr. Marjorie Weinstock, as she took a look at some important literature on the topic of military families, the fall 2013 edition of “The Future of Children”. It’s an interesting overview of military children and families and some of the important issues that affect them. Take a few minutes to read the piece if you missed it this week.
On the upcoming training front, the December iteration of our military-orientated “Topics in Deployment Psychology” training kicks off one week from Monday on 9 December. This eight-day session brings in military providers from different branches of the Armed Forces and trains them on a wide variety of topics, including unique stressors of the deployment cycle, trauma and resilience, ethics, balancing the needs of the military with those of the individual Service member, and many other topics. For more information on the course, visit its section on our website here.
That’s all for this week. We hope everyone continues to enjoy their holiday weekend! We’ll see you back here next week!