Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) - Helping Service Members Navigate a Grueling Reality as a Perceived Enemy Combatant

By Katrice Byrd  on 19.10.2022 6:57 pm

Depending on your worldview, you may either struggle with the theory of Racial Battle Fatigue or be keenly aware of it. However, if you are a mental health practitioner, researcher, or advocate, then your profession almost certainly mandates not only your awareness of both mental health trends and scholarly research, but the implementation of evidenced-based interventions, despite personal convictions that may arise.

Research Update: 13 October 2022

By Shirl Kennedy  on 13.10.2022 1:27 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: 
● What we talk about when we talk about trauma: Content overlap and heterogeneity in the assessment of trauma exposure.
● A meta-analysis of the association between shame and dissociation.
● Posttraumatic stress disorder–related anhedonia as a predictor of psychosocial functional impairment among United States veterans.

Staff Perspective: Defining Military Families in Research - It’s Not Just Semantics

By Jennifer Phillips  on 12.10.2022 2:45 pm
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Military families continue to increase in diversity, a fact that is not always well-studied or represented in research studies and the resources and policies that they influence. This blog shares information from a recent review of research studies that examined how military families are defined and represented in mental health and substance abuse research.

Research Update: 6 October 2022

By Shirl Kennedy  on 06.10.2022 12:55 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: 
● Aggression in Military Members With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder Is Associated With Intimate Partner Health-Related Quality of Life.
● Relationship-undermining statements by psychotherapists with clients who present with marital or couple problems.
● Drug use over time among never-deployed US Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers: The longitudinal effects of non-deployment emotions and sex.

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