Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: Yours, Mine, Ours…and the Military? Experiencing Deployment as a Blended Family

By Jennifer Phillips  on 23.09.2015 11:40 am

It was the summer of 2007 and I was in the homestretch of planning a wedding to my best friend, an active duty psychologist for the U.S. Navy stationed at Bethesda National Naval Medical Center (now Walter Reed Military Medical Center). We had chosen November 10th for our wedding date. I loved the idea of a fall wedding and my husband, also a former Marine, assured me that he would never forget our anniversary if we got married on the Marine Corps birthday. 

By the Numbers - Sept. 21, 2015

By Shirl Kennedy  on 21.09.2015 2:25 pm
$4.3 billion

The amount "obligated" in FY 2014 by the Department of Defense (DOD) for roughly "650,000 servicemember PCS moves," according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) -- Military Compensation: DOD Needs More Complete and Consistent Data to Assess the Costs and Policies of Relocating Personnel. PCS -- Permanent Change of Station -- "is a key tool used by the military services to fill assignments both in the United States and overseas." 

CDP News: Sept. 18, 2015

By Christopher Adams  on 18.09.2015 11:50 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. It was another busy week here at the CDP and we’ve got plenty more coming up, so let’s dive right in.

Research Update: Sept. 17, 2015

By Shirl Kennedy  on 17.09.2015 12:35 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:

● The Military Psychologist - July 2015 (APA) 
● Response to psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder: the role of pretreatment verbal memory performance.

Staff Perspective: Live Training in a Virtual Environment – New Frontiers in Continuing Education

By Elizabeth Parins  on 16.09.2015 1:03 pm

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.  

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