Deployment Psychology Blog

By the Numbers: 1 April 2019

By Shirl Kennedy  on 01.04.2019 12:27 pm

22%

The percentage of Service members who participated in a Military Times survey last fall who reported having seen "signs of white nationalism or racist ideology within the armed forces," according to a recent Military Times article, White nationalism remains a problem for the military, poll suggests. "Among non-white service members in the poll, incidents of racism and racist ideology increased from 42 percent in 2017 to more than half those surveyed in 2018."

CDP News: 29 March 2019

By Christopher Adams  on 29.03.2019 11:35 am

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 saying good-bye to March and welcoming in April and several new events.

Research Update: 28 March 2019

By Shirl Kennedy  on 28.03.2019 11:22 am
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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:
● Military psychologists and cultural competence: exploring implications for the manifestation and treatment of psychological trauma in the British armed forces.
● From the therapeutic to the post-therapeutic: The resilient subject, its social imaginary, and its practices in the shadow of 9/11.
● The role of community context and psychological well-being for physical health: A dyadic study of military couples.

Staff Perspective: Learn More About (FREE) Prolonged Exposure Therapy Training

By Jenna Ermold  on 27.03.2019 11:10 am
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CDP, together with National Center for PTSD, recently completed the first of three training events in Prolonged Exposure (PE) with community providers who treat Veterans with PTSD as part of a pilot project funded by the National Center for PTSD. We interviewed Dr. Sonya Norman, director of the VA’s PTSD Consultation Program and Mr. Todd McKee, program manager, who are leading this project.

By the Numbers: 25 March 2019

By Shirl Kennedy  on 25.03.2019 10:09 am
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1.7%

The percentage of 2,190 "active component service members...evacuated from theater for psychiatric reasons" between between 1 January 2002 and 31 December 2014 "who had diagnosed pre-deployment family problems (N=38)," according to an article in last October's Military Surveillance Monthly Report -- Psychiatric Medical Evacuations in Individuals with Diagnosed Pre-Deployment Family Problems, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2002–2014.

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