Deployment Psychology Blog

Practically Speaking: Behind the Episode Be PreparED to Treat Eating Disorders

Dr. Kevin Holloway

Ok, I admit it. I am not an eating disorders therapist. That is not my specialty. I am grateful that there are therapists who specialize and are expert in treating eating disorders. I’m just not one of them. And that’s ok! In preparing for our discussion with Dr. Deborah Glasofer, our guest on this week’s episode of Practical For Your Practice, I found myself reflecting on the reasons that perhaps I have hesitated to engage with treating eating disorders. Perhaps some of these are familiar to some of our listeners, while perhaps other listeners are passionate about treating these disorders.

Staff Perspective: Expanding the Pathways Program – Exploring a Career as a Military Social Worker

April Thompson, LCSW

Since 2015, the Center for Deployment Psychology has been providing learning opportunities for doctoral students in clinical or counseling psychology interested in joining the military and serving military patients through a program called “Pathways to Preparing for a Psychology Career in the Military”. Initially created as an in-person, week-long training event, the Summer Institute is held each year during either June or July on the campus of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) in Bethesda, Maryland. This location is ideal as it provides participants with exposure to a military base as well as the USU campus

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