Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: Suicide Prevention Webinar Series

By Christopher Adams  on 08.08.2018 1:43 pm

As part of CDP's spotlight on suicide prevention in the month of September, we will be presenting a series of hour-and-a-half long webinars. Each of these free webinars will be led by guest subject matter expert presenters and will focus on an aspect of suicide or suicide prevention. The events will be held on Thursdays, throughout the month, from noon to 1:30 p.m. We invite those interested to register for any or all of the events below by clicking on the titles or by visiting the Suicide Prevention Webinar Series page here.

CDP News: 3 August 2018

By Christopher Adams  on 03.08.2018 9:53 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's August and the school year is right around the corner. We've got lots of training opportunities coming up.

Research Update: 2 August 2018

By Shirl Kennedy  on 02.08.2018 11:42 am

The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Sensory dysfunction and traumatic brain injury severity among deployed post- 9/11 Veterans: a chronic effects of neurotrauma consortium study.
● Mental health care utilization and stigma in the military: comparison of Asian Americans to other racial groups.
● Heart Rate Variability and Cognitive Bias Feedback Interventions to Prevent Post-deployment PTSD: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Staff Perspective: How Do We Define Stigma and How Long Should We Let Stigma Define Mental Health?

By Kaleigh FLANAGAN  on 01.08.2018 12:55 pm

Stigma is relative, socially and culturally determined, and dynamic. Consequently, stigma is a difficult concept to operationally define. This is important because definitions shape and directly impact efforts to research and reduce stigma. In 2014, the RAND National Defense Research Institute published an extensive assessment of stigma-reduction strategies within the DoD (Acosta et al., 2014).

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