Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 18 May 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:

  • Sleep deficiency, operational fatigue and the interplay of compromising factors: Analysis to aid in fatigue management
  • Associations among meaning in life, coping, and distress in trauma-exposed U.S. military veterans
  • An Application of the Confluence Model of Sexual Aggression Among Young Adult Male Soldiers
  • Families transition, too! Military families transition out of service: a scoping review of research from the Five Eyes nations

Staff Perspective: Therapist, Health Thyself: Do We Really Need Self-Care?

Dr. Diana Dolan

I have a confession to make. I have never really bought into the concept of self-care from a personal perspective. I do think frequently about the risk for burnout in in the behavioral health field, I fully support self-care for others, and I encourage time for self-care among friends and colleagues. For myself though, the concept seemed foreign.

Research Update: 11 May 2023

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The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:

  • Nightmare disorder in active-duty US military personnel
  • Development of a brief support and education intervention for loved ones of veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder
  • Objective and Subjective Sleep Measures Are Related to Suicidal Ideation and Are Transdiagnostic Features of Major Depressive Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder
  • Ruptured selves: moral injury and wounded identity

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