Deployment Psychology Blog

By the Numbers - Dec. 2, 2013

By Shirl Kennedy  on 02.12.2013 4:07 pm

217,409

The number of "incident diagnoses of anxiety disorders among active component service members" in the years 2000-2012, according to the October issue of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center's Medical Surveillance Monthly Report. According to the report, the majority of these diagnoses were "non-specific" anxiety disorders "and over 75 percent of service members diagnosed with 'non-specific' anxiety disorders did not have a more specific anxiety disorder diagnosis during subsequent medical encounters."

CDP News: Nov.29, 2013

By Christopher Adams  on 29.11.2013 11:43 am

Happy post-Thanksgiving Friday everyone! Welcome to this week’s CDP News, where we take a few moments to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, as well as look forward to upcoming events.

Staff Perspective: Review of the Future of Children’s Fall 2013 issue

By Marjorie Weinstock  on 27.11.2013 10:58 am

Since President Obama declared November 2013 to be Military Families Month, it seemed appropriate to write about military families.  My professional interest in military families began when I married my active duty Navy husband in 2005.  When I did my first literature review on military families, I was quite surprised by the size of the body of literature, much of which was quite outdated.  While the research literature on military families and children is still limited, it has grown significantly since then.

By the Numbers - Nov. 25, 2013

By Shirl Kennedy  on 25.11.2013 3:56 pm

2.6 million

The number of "veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and other theaters of the global war on terrorism" as of July 2013, according to a recently released study by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) -- Expanding the Net: Building Mental Health Care Capacity for Veterans. Citing the RAND Corporation's 2008 landmark report -- Invisible Wounds of War Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery -- the CNAS study indicated that "15 to 20 percent of these new combat veterans would come home with symptoms of PTSD or TBI (with significant overlap between these populations)."

CDP News: Nov. 22, 2013

By Christopher Adams  on 22.11.2013 3:53 pm

It’s Friday and time for the latest edition of CDP News, where we take a few moments to look back at recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, as well as looking ahead to upcoming events.

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