Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: Jan. 8, 2015

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:

● Professional Psychology: Research and Practice -- Special Issue: Research on Psychological Issues and Interventions for Military Personnel, Veterans, and Their Families 
● PTSD Monthly Update - December 2014: Animated Whiteboard Videos on PTSD 

Staff Perspective: New Research Comparing Cognitive Processing Therapy with Cognitive Processing Therapy-Cognitive Only

Does anyone else have their fingers crossed that researchers will start finding evidence of which PTSD treatments work best with which specific patients?  Happily, it seems like researchers are starting to ask those questions as well, and the recent article comparing Cognitive Processing Therapy standard protocol to Cognitive Processing Therapy - Cognitive Only may have inadvertently started to answer this question.  

Research Update: Dec. 18, 2014

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 adjustment in reserve component soldiers during a noncombat deployment to Africa. 
  • Examining spouse/partner presence as a moderator in the relationship between mental health symptoms and alcohol use in OEF/OIF veterans. 

There will be no Research Update for the next two weeks due to Christmas/New Years holidays.

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