Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: Military Couples and Relationships

By Regina Shillinglaw  on 27.02.2019 10:54 am

Relationship distress is a common presentation in the military mental health clinic in which I work and is also a frequently seen precipitating factor for combat stress during deployment. Most of the mental health professionals I work with cite relationship woes as the top reason underlying adjustment disorders in theater. We also know that relationship problems of various types (loss of relationship, perceived burdensomeness in relationships) are associated with an elevated risk of suicide and other mental health problems.

By the Numbers: 25 February 2019

By Shirl Kennedy  on 25.02.2019 12:34 pm

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The percentage of women Veterans who "reported inappropriate/unwanted comments or behavior by male veterans on VA grounds," according to a pre-publication article posted online by the journal Women's Health Issues -- Prevalence of Stranger Harassment of Women Veterans at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and Impacts on Delayed and Missed Care.

CDP News: 22 February 2019

By Christopher Adams  on 22.02.2019 11:10 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. Between the President’s Day holiday on Monday and the inclement weather later, it’s been a bit of a hectic week around here.

Research Update: 21 February 2019

By Shirl Kennedy  on 21.02.2019 12:55 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:
● Factors associated with completing evidence-based psychotherapy for PTSD among veterans in a national healthcare system.
● Expressions of emotional distress in active duty military personnel with mild traumatic brain injury: A qualitative content analysis.
● Examining the impact of different types of military trauma on suicidality in women veterans.

Staff Perspective: Contextualizing the Resilience of LGBTQ Military-Connected Couples

By Kaleigh DeSimone  on 20.02.2019 11:19 am

Despite an extensive history of punitive practices towards what we know today as the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community, LGBTQ people have served in the United States military since its inception (GSAFE, 2018). Those LGBTQ Veterans who served during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War did so at a time when the military defined homosexuality as a mental disorder, with support from the organized medical community (e.g., APA).

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