Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: March 21, 2013

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:
• An Empirically Based Approach to the Assessment and Management of Suicidal Behavior.
• Diagnostic accuracy of brief PTSD screening instruments in military veterans.
• PTSD Research Quarterly (Lead story: The Role of Benzodiazepines in the Treatment of
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)

Staff Voices: A Look at Somnambulism/Sleepwalking

Somnambulism (ie, sleepwalking) is a disorder of arousal that falls under the Parasomnias group of disorders. Parasomnias are undesirable motor, verbal, or experiential events that occur typically during non-Rapid Eye-Movement (NREM) sleep.  The disorder is usually benign, self-limited and rarely requires treatment.

CDP News: March 15, 2013

Once again it’s Friday and time for our weekly wrap-up of events in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, CDP News.  First up, today marks the end of our 2013 Southwest Regional 1-Week training in Phoenix. From all reports, it’s been a great week for both presenters and participants. I know our presenters enjoy the opportunity to get out and work directly with behavioral health providers in the community.Hopefully, all of the participants learned a lot of great information that they can use in their efforts to treat Service Members and Veterans as well.

Research Update: March 14, 2013

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:
• Military Caregivers: Cornerstones of Support for Our Nation's Wounded, Ill, and Injured Veterans
• He's home, but he's not the same: a pastoral counseling impression of family care after combat related traumatic brain injury.
• Recruitment to online therapies for depression: pilot cluster randomized controlled trial.
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for PTSD and Somatization: An Open Trial.

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