Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: The Opportunity That Never Knocked On My Door

By Elizabeth Parins  on 13.12.2017 11:55 am
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Current graduate students interested in joining the military as psychologists have many more avenues for information than I did back in 1998. One of the most exciting current sources of information is the Center for Deployment Psychology’s The Summer Institute: Preparing for a Career in the Armed Forces. This is a one-week opportunity for graduate students in their second through fourth years of school to come to Washington D.C. for one week in the summer and learn about military psychology, meet training directors from the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and learn about specific evidence-based assessments and treatments used by military psychologists

By the Numbers: 11 December 2017

By Shirl Kennedy  on 11.12.2017 10:39 am
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18.3%

The percentage of U.S. adults age 18+ who had "any mental illness" in 2016, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). This comprises 44.7 million adults. Roughly 10.4 million adults had "a serious mental illness " (4.2%), and 35 million "received mental health care" (14.4%).

CDP News: 8 December 2017

By Christopher Adams  on 08.12.2017 11:37 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. We’ve got a busy couple of weeks before we get to the holidays.

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