Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: Downrange Comedy – Humor in Deployed Settings

By Matthew Sacks  on 01.06.2016 12:23 pm
Matthew Sacks, Ph.D.

I’ve always loved comedy and gravitated towards individuals with humor and quick wit, whether in a friend, colleague, or comedian.  I find that comedy and humor can be base, but in other moments incredibly stimulating intellectually and even emotionally powerful.  Comedy can make connections between ideas and subjects that are seemingly unconnectable, it can short-circuit the brain into confusion and epiphany in a singular moment of time, dousing our brains with dopamine and contorting our bodies with intense laughter. 

CDP News: May 27, 2016

By Christopher Adams  on 27.05.2016 12:13 pm

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. We’ve been busy this week, since next week will be shortened by Memorial Day on Monday.

Staff Perspective: May is Mental Health Awareness Month

By Christopher Adams  on 25.05.2016 1:51 pm

We’re heading to the end of May, but before we get there, we wanted to take the time to spotlight that this is Mental Health Awareness Month. With the increased societal awareness, the stigma around Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and other behavioral health concerns has decreased, but it is certainly very much still in existence. Due to this, events like Mental Health Awareness Month are still very necessary to increase the knowledge of both the issues faced and the resources available to those in need.

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