Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: EBP Conference and Summer Institute

By Christopher Adams  on 01.02.2023 1:57 pm

It may not feel like it outside, but spring will be here before you know it. The Center for Deployment Psychology has two big upcoming events later in 2023 and it's time to start getting ready for them!  First up will be the CDP's third annual Evidence-based Psychotherapy Conference on 10 May 2023. Then 17-21 June we will be holding the Pathways to Military Internships: The Summer Institute event. 

Research Update: 26 January 2023

By Shirl Kennedy  on 26.01.2023 11:29 am
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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: 
● Internet-based family training with telephone coaching to promote mental health treatment initiation among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: A pilot study.
● Comparing the role of perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness in prospectively predicting active suicidal ideation.
● Traditional masculinity ideology and psychotherapy treatment outcome for military service veteran men.

Practically Speaking: Behind the Episode “Take That Nap! Strategies and Tips for Working with the Sleep Deprived”

By Jenna Ermold  on 25.01.2023 9:11 am
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When we think of “sleep problems” most of the time our brains go to insomnia – that group of people we work with who have difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep despite adequate opportunity to sleep. But what about the opposite side of the sleep coin… or pillow, if you will? What about the group of folks who desperately want sleep, need sleep, crave sleep AND could sleep if only given adequate opportunity to do so? In this week’s episode, we sit down, once again, with one of CDP’s sleep experts, Dr. Diana Dolan, to talk about sleep deprivation and the associated functional impairments

Research Update: 19 January 2023

By Shirl Kennedy  on 19.01.2023 5:39 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: 
● Sudden gains in therapist-guided versus self-guided online treatments for anxiety or depression.
● Cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia with objective short sleep duration phenotype: A systematic review with meta-analysis.
● Cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia prevents and alleviates suicidal ideation: insomnia remission is a suicidolytic mechanism.

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