Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: June is PTSD Awareness Month

By Christopher Adams  on 08.06.2016 10:40 am

In 2010, Congress designated the 27th of June as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Day. This has now expanded to the month of June as a whole. Even though more of the public has become aware of PTSD in recent years, there is still much work to be done. Many people still have only a vague understanding of what PTSD is, its causes, symptoms and potential treatments.

CDP News: June 3, 2016

By Christopher Adams  on 03.06.2016 12:20 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. It was a slower week than usual, due to the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, but we’ve got plenty of events on the horizon.

Research Update: June 2, 2016

By Shirl Kennedy  on 02.06.2016 1:57 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:

● PTSD Research Quarterly -- Group Treatment for PTSD
● Assessing mental health clinicians’ intentions to adopt evidence-based treatments:reliability and validity testing of the evidence-based treatment intentions scale.

Staff Perspective: Downrange Comedy – Humor in Deployed Settings

By Matthew Sacks  on 01.06.2016 12:23 pm
Matthew Sacks, Ph.D.

I’ve always loved comedy and gravitated towards individuals with humor and quick wit, whether in a friend, colleague, or comedian.  I find that comedy and humor can be base, but in other moments incredibly stimulating intellectually and even emotionally powerful.  Comedy can make connections between ideas and subjects that are seemingly unconnectable, it can short-circuit the brain into confusion and epiphany in a singular moment of time, dousing our brains with dopamine and contorting our bodies with intense laughter. 

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