I want to expand upon an issue raised by Dr. Jennifer Philips in her blog on military children’s resilience. Dr. Phillips explored some of the positive outcomes of military children who experience frequent relocations. Moving is a universal experience of military families, but it becomes even more complicated when the children in the family are in high school.
As educators in the field of suicidology, we have often trained and supervised providers in the conduct of suicide risk assessments. In general, we have noted that while providers are becoming more knowledgeable about how to perform a suicide risk assessment, they continue to experience challenges in how to best communicate about suicide risk. Based on our experiences, we would like to provide you with some practical recommendations when completing clinical documentation and when consulting with colleagues.
Air Force Guide for Suicide Risk Assessment, Management, and Treatment
Appendices for Air Force Guide for Suicide Risk Assessment, Management, and Treatment
30-50 percent
The percentage of injuries to Service members in the recent Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts that came from improvised explosive devices (IED), according to a new report from the RAND Corporation -- Understanding Treatment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Military Health System.
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. This week we were focused on internal matters, as most of the CDP was attending our annual All-Staff meeting. We’ve come up with some great plans for the future and are excited to get back to doing what we do best! Let’s see what’s coming up.
While at officer training at beautiful Maxwell AFB, Alabama, a fellow trainee remarked at how unattractive the base was. I defended the base quickly, “Don’t you know this is actually a nice base? The color scheme includes other colors besides brown.” If you hear some righteous indignation coming through the text on this page, you would not be mistaken. For me, the familiarity of the typical brown monotone of Air Force bases, and not a particular city, was my hometown. For me, military culture was not just something I was voluntarily taking on as all Service members do in training, but something I was born into.