Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: Around the Web

By Christopher Adams  on 07.07.2021 1:06 pm
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For this week's Staff Perspective blog entry, we're going to take a quick look at a few interesting and military-psychology related stories from around the Internet.
Computerized Assessment Tools for PTSD Measurement: Researchers are testing the Computerized Adaptive Diagnostic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder screener (CAD-PTSD) and Computerized Adaptive Test for PTSD symptom severity (CAT-PTSD). Using fewer questions, 6 for the CAD and 10 for the CAT,  the electronic assessment tools compared favorably to the Clinician Administered Scale for PTSD for DSM-5 (CAPS-5).

Research Update: 1 July 2021

By Shirl Kennedy  on 01.07.2021 12:31 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: 
● Drinking patterns of post-deployment Veterans: The role of personality, negative urgency, and posttraumatic stress.
● Prevalence of Potentially Morally Injurious Events in Operationally Deployed Canadian Armed Forces Members.
● Intergenerational Transmission of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Australian Vietnam Veterans’ Daughters and Sons: The Effect of Family Emotional Climate While Growing Up.

Research Update: 24 June 2021

By Shirl Kennedy  on 24.06.2021 1:28 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: 
● Sleep Quality Improvements After MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
● The Impact of Hostility on Quality of Life, Functioning, and Suicidal Ideation Among Male Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
● Associations between spouse and service member prescriptions for high-risk and long-term opioids: A dyadic study.

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