Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: Nov. 14, 2013

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

  • Battle for Benefits: VA Discrimination Against Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma
  • Sexual Assault in the Military -- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights -- 2013 Statutory Enforcement Report

CDP News: Nov. 8, 2013

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of CDP News! We like to take a few moments each Friday to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events.

Research Update: Nov. 7, 2013

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

  • Behavioral Health United States 2012
  • Predictors of dropout in an outpatient treatment for problem drinkers including cognitive-behavioral therapy and the opioid antagonist naltrexone.

Staff Perspective: An Interview with Dr. Alan Peterson

I recently sat down with Dr. Alan Peterson, Consortium Director of STRONG STAR (South Texas Research Organizational Network Guiding Studies on Trauma and Resilience), a multi-disciplinary, multi-site research consortium funded by the DoD and VA, to learn a little bit more about their current research projects. Dr. Peterson is a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, a board-certified clinical health psychologist, and proposed STRONG STAR over five years ago to address the dearth of military-specific trauma research.

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