Deployment Psychology Blog

By the Numbers: 8 January 2024

By Shirl Kennedy  on 08.01.2024 11:11 am

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The percentage of active duty service members who are overweight, according to a recently published white paper by the American Security Project, a "nonpartisan organization created to educate the American public and the world about the changing nature of national security in the 21st Century". Other key findings in the white paper -- Combating Military Obesity: Stigma's Persistent Impact on Operational Readiness:

 

Research Update: 4 January 2024

By Shirl Kennedy  on 04.01.2024 12:51 pm

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include: 
● Suicide Risk Among US Veterans With Military Service During the Vietnam War.
● Treating a common comorbidity: Pain outcomes following a 3-week cognitive processing therapy–based intensive treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder address.
● The impact of screening positive for hazardous alcohol use on the diagnostic accuracy of the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 among veterans.
 

Practically Speaking: Behind the Episode: Massed Treatments for PTSD - The Quickest Way Through the Fog?

By Carin Lefkowitz  on 03.01.2024 9:46 am
Dr. Carin Lefkowitz

Even die-hard proponents of evidence-based psychotherapy (EBP) such as myself acknowledge that it comes with challenges. Of course, there are some patients who are uninterested in EBPs for a variety of reasons. But even motivated and engaged patients don’t always complete treatment or gain significant benefit. Research has long focused on how we can improve outcomes and completion rates for “non responders” and “dropouts.”

Research Update: 21 December 2023

By Shirl Kennedy  on 21.12.2023 12:47 pm

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include: 
● Yoga vs Cognitive Processing Therapy for Military Sexual Trauma-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
● Associations of Warzone Veteran and Intimate Partner PTSD Symptoms with Child Depression, Anxiety, Hyperactivity, and Conduct Problems.
● Sexual Risk Taking among Survivors of U.S. Military Sexual Assault: Associations with PTSD Symptom Severity and Alcohol Use.

Practically Speaking: Behind the Episode Be PreparED to Treat Eating Disorders

By Kevin Holloway  on 18.12.2023 3:00 pm
Dr. Kevin Holloway

Ok, I admit it. I am not an eating disorders therapist. That is not my specialty. I am grateful that there are therapists who specialize and are expert in treating eating disorders. I’m just not one of them. And that’s ok! In preparing for our discussion with Dr. Deborah Glasofer, our guest on this week’s episode of Practical For Your Practice, I found myself reflecting on the reasons that perhaps I have hesitated to engage with treating eating disorders. Perhaps some of these are familiar to some of our listeners, while perhaps other listeners are passionate about treating these disorders.

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