Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: Training the Next Generation of Military Substance Abuse Treatment Providers - 10 Things to Think About

By Kimberly Copeland  on 24.10.2018 10:13 am
Kimmberly A. Copeland, Psy.D.

I am very proud to have worked as a psychologist at the Navy’s Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation Program, also known as SARP. I recall living for my patients, my team and the work; I’m pretty passionate about healing and the recovery process. The following points are some things I believe are important to consider when working with Service members struggling with a drug or alcohol problem. Some seem pretty obvious, but are still worth mentioning in my humble opinion. 

By the Numbers: 22 October 2018

By Shirl Kennedy  on 22.10.2018 11:34 am

$2.8 Trillion
The amount spent by the United States on "governmentwide homeland security efforts, international programs, and the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria" from FY 2002 through FY 2017, according to a new report from the Stimson Center -- Counterterrorism Spending: Protecting America while Promoting Efficiencies and Accountability.

CDP News: 19 October 2018

By Christopher Adams  on 19.10.2018 12:40 pm

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. We’re almost through with October, but we’ve got a few month events this month.

Research Update: 18 October 2018

By Shirl Kennedy  on 18.10.2018 11:10 am
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The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● PTSD Research Quarterly The Dissociative Subtype of PTSD: An Update of the Literature
● Mechanisms of Moral Injury Following Military Sexual Trauma and Combat in Post-9/11 U.S. War Veterans
● Development of Self-Directedness and Cooperativeness in Relation to Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Trajectories After Military Deployment.

Staff Perspective: Contextualizing Moral Emotions

By Kaleigh DeSimone  on 17.10.2018 11:04 am

A Vietnam Veteran walked into my office at one of the VA’s top inpatient residential posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) programs as a last-ditch effort to save his marriage. He said very little in our initial interactions, and the stress of the years working hard to provide for his family alongside many sleepless nights had settled into dark patches under his eyes and grime beneath his fingernails. His outpatient therapist referred him to the program to receive an evidence-based treatment for PTSD. He was quickly assigned to the Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) group and to supplemental individual CPT sessions with me.

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