Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 17 November 2022

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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: 
● Cannabis dosing and administration for sleep: a systematic review.
● The natural history of insomnia: high sleep reactivity interacts with greater life stress to predict the onset of acute insomnia.
● Diversity, equity, and inclusion correlates of racial/ethnic harassment and discrimination in the U.S. military.

Staff Perspective: Just Say “No”: My Current Approach to Self-Care

Dr. Carin Lefkowitz

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been hearing about “NOvember” campaigns such as “putting the ‘no’ in ‘November’” and “The NOvember Challenge.” There are a few different versions of the campaign, but essentially it is a call to say “no” to unhealthy/unenjoyable/non-enriching requests and habits. Although this call to action has been around for years, it’s suddenly become relevant to me

Research Update: 10 November 2022

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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: 
● Virtual reality in the diagnostic and therapy for mental disorders: A systematic review.
● Do people use methods or tricks to fall asleep? A comparison between people with and without chronic insomnia.
● A systematic review of dreams and nightmares recall in patients with rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder.

Staff Perspective: Abandon Ship or Focus on Strategies to Improve Adherence to Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Insomnia

Dr. Tim Rogers

When conducting our two-day workshops on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), participants often note that a high percentage of their patients experience or report having sleep difficulties. Participants also note that patients seeking help have often been struggling with these problems for years. As a result, patients can enter into treatment feeling both helpless and hopeless about the possibility of their sleep functioning improving.

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