Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: Contextualizing Moral Emotions

By Kaleigh DeSimone  on 17.10.2018 11:04 am

A Vietnam Veteran walked into my office at one of the VA’s top inpatient residential posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) programs as a last-ditch effort to save his marriage. He said very little in our initial interactions, and the stress of the years working hard to provide for his family alongside many sleepless nights had settled into dark patches under his eyes and grime beneath his fingernails. His outpatient therapist referred him to the program to receive an evidence-based treatment for PTSD. He was quickly assigned to the Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) group and to supplemental individual CPT sessions with me.

By the Numbers: 15 October 2018

By Shirl Kennedy  on 15.10.2018 10:29 am

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The percentage by which soldiers deployed to combat zones are more likely to attend religious services weekly when compared to "their counterparts assigned to non-combat overseas deployments," according to a recent working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research -- Death, Trauma and God: The Effect of Military Deployments on Religiosity. Soldiers deployed to combat zones are also 9% more likely to engage in private prayer, according to the researchers.

CDP News: 12 October 2018

By Christopher Adams  on 12.10.2018 11:28 am

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 short week, due to the holiday on Monday, but we were still busy.

Research Update: 11 October 2018

By Shirl Kennedy  on 11.10.2018 11:57 am
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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:
● Mental Health and Help-Seeking in the U.S. Military: Survey and Focus Group Findings.
● Army Soldiers and Suicidal Thoughts: The Impact of Negative Relationship Dynamics Moderated by the Dissolution of Romantic Relationships.
● Efficacy of a Web-based Intervention for Concerned Spouses of Service Members and Veterans with Alcohol Misuse.

Staff Perspective: Don’t Take My Word for It - How to Choose a Training

By Diana Dolan  on 10.10.2018 12:02 pm

I get a lot of flyers for various continuing education opportunities. Some of the workshops sound interesting, but I have to admit, some of them sound…well, a little far-fetched. Let’s just say I skeptically wonder about the credentials of the trainer and whether research supports the content. Potential attendees must often take the trainer’s word about the validity of the training. As a trainer, along with the other CDP faculty members, that leads me to contemplate what I specifically I bring to the table when delivering trainings, and more broadly what we at CDP have to offer. In other words, if you are considering attending a CDP training, why should you take our word for it?

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