Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 7 September 2023

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Cohort Profile Update: The US Millennium Cohort Study—evaluating the impact of military experiences on service members and veteran health.
● Cognitive reappraisal moderates the effect of combat or other exposures on negative behavioral health symptoms.
● Early predictors of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder symptom trajectories in U.S. Army soldiers deployed to the Iraq war zone.

Practically Speaking: Behind the Episode “But What if My Client Dissociates?! Practical Strategies From Our Experts”

Dr. Jenna Ermold

In our first episode of season 4, we tackle one of the top concerns we hear in our PTSD EBP workshops and consultation… “But what if my client dissociates?!”. If this has been on your list of clinical worries, worry no more! In this episode we are joined by one of CDP’s PTSD experts, Dr. Kelly Chrestman to dig into what is dissociation (and what isn’t)? What is its function? How can we best assess it? When is it likely to show up? AND most importantly, what providers can do to manage it in the context of their EBP work!

Research Update: 31 August 2023

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Written Exposure Therapy vs Prolonged Exposure Therapy in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
● Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on army families: Household finances, familial experiences, and soldiers’ behavioral health.
● Widening the scope of intensive treatment for PTSD in the military health system.

Research Update: 24 August 2023

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● The generation that lived during/participated in the war and the generation that inherited it: association between veterans’ PTSD and adult offspring's emotional regulation strategies and alexithymia levels.
● Determinants and Outcomes of Suicidal Behavior Among Patients With Major Depressive Disorder.
● Clarifying the association between adverse childhood experiences and postdeployment posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity: A meta-analysis and large-sample investigation.

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