Deployment Psychology Blog

Guest Perspective: Employment - Another Tool to Help Your Veteran Clients

By Nathan D. Ainspan  on 12.04.2016 12:08 pm

It should not surprise you to hear that employment is critical for good mental health and can even be part of the treatment for your clients who may have mental health issues. Even though you are not a career counselor, you can still have an enormous impact on your Veteran clients by helping them in their search for post-military employment. This blog will outline the mental health benefits of employment and explain why you should consider integrating the issue of employment into your repertoire of tools for helping your clients. It then suggests how you can help your Veteran clients with their search for employment and lists resources that you can use with them.

CDP News: Apr. 8, 2016

By Christopher Adams  on 08.04.2016 11:43 am

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. The first full week of April was another busy one and there’s plenty more on the horizon.

Research Update: Apr. 7, 2016

By Shirl Kennedy  on 07.04.2016 12:16 pm

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:

● Does a therapist's reflective ability predict the accuracy of their self-evaluation of competence in cognitive behavioural therapy?
● Predictors of depression severity in a treatment-seeking sample.

Staff Perspective: Should I Be Teaching Veterans to Meditate?

By Andrew Santanello  on 06.04.2016 12:39 pm
Andrew Santanello, Psy.D.

It’s Wednesday afternoon, and I’m sitting, cross-legged, on a meditation cushion in the dayroom at a Veteran’s hospital. There are 13 Veterans sitting around the room; some of them are outpatients and some of them are participants in a residential PTSD program. Some of them are sitting on cushions, but most of them are in chairs. Another psychologist and a few psychology interns are there, too. We are all sitting in silence. About seven minutes into the final period of practice in our mindfulness group, the thought that I knew was coming finally presents itself, front and center, in my mind.

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