Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: Mood Coach and Virtual Hope Box Apps

By Erin Frick  on 17.01.2018 2:48 pm
Erin Frick, Psy.D.

Smart phone are becoming more and more of an integral part of our lives every day. These enable the use of a wide variety of apps, many of which can be used by both behavioral health providers and their clients to assist in treatment, both in and outside of sessions. We keep an eye out for these and when we encounter ones we find especially useful, we like to share them fellow providers. We've got two new ones to talk about today, the Virtual Hope Box and Mood Coach apps. 

CDP News: 12 January 2018

By Christopher Adams  on 12.01.2018 1:05 pm

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 getting ready for the long weekend coming up, but we've got plenty to talk about first.

Guest Perspective: My Experience with The Summer Institute

By Tawanna Howard  on 10.01.2018 1:40 pm

Understanding the influence of military culture on mental health and organizational aspects of the armed services is of particular interest to me given my decision to join the Air Force in 2015. Although, even if I were not a Service member, I would still consider the knowledge and skills gained during The Summer Institute to have utility, in working with Veteran populations and the families of those who served, as a civilian health care provider. I expected to learn about evidence-based treatments for a wide range of clinical presentations and military-specific stressors, what was less expected was the involvement of so many former and current military psychologists who added breadth and depth to the seminars and didactics.

By the Numbers: 8 January 2018

By Shirl Kennedy  on 08.01.2018 4:26 pm
By the Numbers Graphic

16.9%

The percentage of 830,825 VA patients "who screened positive for unhealthy alcohol use" between 10/1/09–5/30/13 who had "documented PTSD," according to a new article in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment -- Alcohol-related and mental health care for patients with unhealthy alcohol use and posttraumatic stress disorder in a National Veterans Affairs cohort.

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