Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective - Around the Web: 24 June 2020

By Christopher Adams  on 24.06.2020 10:28 am

As we close out this year's PTSD Awareness Month, we wanted to take a quick look at a few relevant stories from around the web.

  • Overview of Evidence-based Practice - The Psychological Health Center for Excellent (PHCoE) offers a brief run-down of several evidence-based treatment options for PTSD, along with accompanying resources.
  • MHS Mental Health Experts Shed Light on PTSD - Three Military Health System SMEs, including CDP Executive Director Dr. Dave Riggs, discussed PTSD, treatment and programs during a media roundtable on the topic.

Research Update: 18 June 2020

By Shirl Kennedy  on 18.06.2020 8:19 am

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:

● Communication strategies used by women to influence male partners to seek professional help for mental health problems: A qualitative study.
● Evaluating the impact of simulation-based education on clinical psychology students' confidence and clinical competence.
● It Takes a Family: How Military Spousal Laws and Policies Impact National Security.
● Handgun Ownership and Suicide in California.

Staff Perspective: Moral Distress, Residue, and the Crescendo Effect - Understanding the Potential Impact of the Extended COVID-19 Crisis

By Debra Nofziger  on 17.06.2020 10:07 am
Dr. Deb Nofziger

I had a patient who had once been a psychiatrist and left the field to return to general medicine. He was an active duty Service member who'd had multiple deployments. I remember thinking that he had become so burned out from working with Service members around behavioral health issues and combat that he had to leave that part of the profession altogether. But even then, I realized that "burned out" did not capture what I was seeing in him

By the Numbers: 15 June 2020

By Shirl Kennedy  on 15.06.2020 3:40 pm

20.8%

The percentage of a "nationally representative sample of trauma-exposed U.S. veterans" who "reported experiencing mild-to-severe dissociative symptoms," according to an article recently published online in the Journal of Affective Disorders -- Dissociative Symptoms in a Nationally Representative Sample of Trauma-Exposed U.S. Military Veterans: Prevalence, Comorbidities, and Suicidality. 

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