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 was another busy week here at the CDP and we’ve got plenty more coming up, so let’s dive right in.
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:
● The Military Psychologist - July 2015 (APA)
● Response to psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder: the role of pretreatment verbal memory performance.
Providing or attending a live training in a virtual environment is a new experience for most people. This article is a brief description of what it was like to be the trainer for a recent Suicide Prevention Training in Second Life, a virtual environment.
30.8%
The percentage of federal government workers in the Executive Branch who are Veterans, according to a report released in July by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management -- Employment of Veterans in the Federal Executive Branch Fiscal Year 2014 (PDF).
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 was a shorter week due to the Labor Day holiday, but we still managed to squeeze in several events this week.