Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: Digging Deeper

By Christy Collette  on 21.12.2021 5:23 pm

As I write this, I am wrapping up end of year tasks (this is one of the last must-dos) and looking forward to 2022. I think it is going to look much different than any of us expected. I know for myself, I thought, perhaps naively, that we would be past some of the COVID challenges. I was hopeful at this time last year that we would be back to some normalcy. While things are different than a year ago, we still have a long way to go in managing life as COVID continues to bring more challenges and new variants.

Research Update: 16 December 2021

By Shirl Kennedy  on 16.12.2021 12:59 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: 
● Increases in Positive Emotions as Precursors to Therapeutic Change.
● Premorbid traumatic stress and veteran responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
● Association Between Social Media Use and Self-reported Symptoms of Depression in US Adults.

Staff Perspective: Reflections on Pearl Harbor and a Career as a Military Psychologist

By Elizabeth Parins  on 16.12.2021 12:38 pm
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This past December 7th marked the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. As a young psychologist, just out of internship in the Navy, I visited the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. This was before September 11, 2001 and I was hopeful that we were facing an extended period of peace in our country. Before entering the USS Arizona Memorial, I had thought of it as a historical war memorial from my grandparents’ generation. But that day, standing before the marble wall towering over me, listing the names of those who died, I was transformed.

Research Update: 9 December 2021

By Shirl Kennedy  on 09.12.2021 2:57 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: 
● The career transition experiences of military Veterans: A qualitative study.
● Military identity and planning for the transition out of the military.
● Anxiety sensitivity and posttraumatic stress symptoms: Associations among female Veterans with a history of military sexual trauma.

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