In this video blog, Dr. Libby Parins and Eddie Black discuss his experiences, emotions, and challenges upon returning from deployment.
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’re heading into the final week of May and Memorial Day weekend.
The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● PTSD Research Quarterly -- May 2018: Focal Brain Stimulation for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
● Challenges to evaluating US military policy on sexual assault and sexual harassment.
● Developing systems that promote Veterans’ recovery from military sexual trauma: Recommendations from the Veterans Health Administration national program implementation.
Recently I reviewed the current literature on military families and deployment in preparation for updating the Center for Deployment’s (CDP) online course, The Impact of Deployment on Families and Children. While this is a topic that I’ve been teaching since I first joined the CDP almost nine years ago, I was excited when I ran across an article that summarized the deployment cycle challenges that military families face in a new way.
17.2%
The percentage of transgender Service members who have experienced military sexual assault (MSA), according to a recent article in the Journal of Traumatic Stress -- Military Sexual Assault in Transgender Veterans: Results From a Nationwide Survey.