Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: The Chaplains-CARE Program - Preparing Navy Chaplains to Better Serve At-Risk Service Members

By Lisa French  on 26.09.2018 9:27 am

When I was an active duty Air Force psychologist, I learned early on in my career the importance of working closely with active duty Chaplains. In fact, Chaplains and behavioral-health providers often served on several base-level committees together focused on community initiatives. We collaborated regularly on population health-based suicide prevention efforts and crisis response following traumatic events, as well as taught relationship enhancement workshops together. I believe that caring for our Service members takes all hands on deck (to use a Navy saying).

By the Numbers: 24 September 2018

By Shirl Kennedy  on 24.09.2018 1:27 pm

7,023
The number of Active Duty Service members who "who received a psychiatric aeromedical evacuation from Iraq or Afghanistan between 2001 and 2013," according to a new article in the journal Military Medicine -- Psychiatric Aeromedical Evacuations of Deployed Active Duty U.S. Military Personnel During Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn.

Research Update: 20 September 2018

By Shirl Kennedy  on 20.09.2018 12:23 pm

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web, including a special section on suicide prevention. Some of this week's topics include:
● The Association between Mental Health Disorders and History of Unintended Pregnancy among Women Veterans.
● Factors affecting behavioral health provider turnover in US Air Force primary care behavioral health services.
● Sleep, resilience, and psychological distress in United States military Veterans.
● A genome-wide association study of suicide attempts and suicidal ideation in U.S. military Veterans.

Staff Perspective: Suicide Prevention - A Commitment to Stay Informed

By April Thompson  on 19.09.2018 9:29 am

My first professional experience with suicide occurred over 20 years ago. The suicide was not one of my clients, but was someone many felt they knew and his death had a huge impact on my professional life. In 1996, I had just moved to Yokosuka, Japan to work as a counselor on a Navy base. It was my first job working for the Navy and I was excited to support Sailors and their families in an overseas environment. At the time I had been out of graduate school only a few years. I was seeking an opportunity to have a positive impact and felt I had the skills and experience to do that on the Navy base.

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