Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 6 October 2022

By Shirl Kennedy  on 06.10.2022 12:55 pm
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The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include: 
● Aggression in Military Members With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder Is Associated With Intimate Partner Health-Related Quality of Life.
● Relationship-undermining statements by psychotherapists with clients who present with marital or couple problems.
● Drug use over time among never-deployed US Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers: The longitudinal effects of non-deployment emotions and sex.

Staff Perspective: Not Your Fault, but Still Your Responsibility: The Needs of Youth with a Parent with Alcohol Use Disorder

By Andrea Israel  on 05.10.2022 9:31 am

Alcohol use disorder within families is a topic with potential impact across subpopulations and is not specific to the population of military families. In fact, although reviews of research suggest that there may be a higher incidence of problematic drinking in some segments (but not all) of the military, the highest rates of problematic drinking seem to be observed in military populations that are inconsistent with military families with children (as factors related to higher rates include those who are single and do not have children; Osborne et al., 2022). Even more explicitly, I’m not aware of any studies which have noted a heightened prevalence of problematic drinking in military families with children versus civilian families with children.

Research Update: 29 September 2022

By Shirl Kennedy  on 29.09.2022 12:37 pm
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The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include: 
● Using Client Narratives to Identify Predictors of Outcome in Written Exposure Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy.
● Event centrality and posttraumatic stress symptoms after traumatic injury: A longitudinal investigation.
● Comparing immediate- and delayed-onset posttraumatic stress disorder: Results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions–III (NESARC-III).

Staff Perspective: Exploring a Suicide-Specific Couple-Based Intervention

By Marjorie Weinstock  on 28.09.2022 11:16 am
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While I’ve written numerous blogs about military couples, one of my other professional interests is suicide prevention. Since September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, I thought suicide prevention would be a good topic for my blog post this month. So, when I recently ran across Khalifan and colleagues’ (2022) article “Utilizing the couple relationship to prevent suicide: A preliminary examination of treatment for relationships and safety together” I was intrigued!

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