CDP News: August 17, 2012
Welcome to this week's news and announcements. First up, our Speakers Bureau is off to Sioux Falls, South Dakota next week. On Wednesday and Thursday, Dr.
Deployment Psychology Blog
August 2, 2012: Research Update
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:
• Stigma of Suicide Attempt (STOSA) scale and Stigma of Suicide and Suicide Survivor (STOSASS) scale: Two new assessment tools.
• The Combined Stress of Family Life, Work, and War in Air Force Men and Women: A Test of Conservation of Resources Theory.
• The Combined Stress of Family Life, Work, and War in Air Force Men and Women: A Test of Conservation of Resources Theory.
Staff Voices - Posttraumatic Stress - Is It a Disorder or Injury?
On Sunday, May 6, 2012, Greg Jaffe wrote an article in the Washington Post titled, Psychiatrists Seek New Name, and Less Stigma, for PTSD: Proposal Would Define PTSD as an Injury. This article sketches the current debate about whether the name posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) should be changed to posttraumatic stress injury—a change in which the word “disorder” would be replaced by “injury”. Infused partly by Army leadership, this call for change has stirred various questions including whether the name change would really reduce stigma and how it would impact the legitimacy of the condition in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and in health insurance and federal disability claims.
July 30, 2012: By the Numbers
2,700+
That's the number of chaplains in the Army. And about 700 chaplains and chaplain assistants are "mobilized or deployed for contingency operations’ support around the world," according to data cited in a February 2012 Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health article, Compassion Fatigue: What Is the Level Among Army Chaplains?
July 27, 2012: CDP News
It's Friday again and that means it's time for the weekly CDP Announcements.
We unveiled a couple of new of locations this week for our University Counseling Center Core Competency (UC4) program this week. We'll be holding events in both Columbus, OH at Ohio State University and in Lexington, KY at the University of Kentucky on August 8th. Don't forget about the previously announced event on Tuesday, July 31, in Nashville, TN at Lipscomb University!