Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 25 May 2023

By Shirl Kennedy  on 25.05.2023 12:26 pm
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
  • Informing measurement of gender differences in suicide risk and resilience: A national study of United States military veterans
  • Military experiences, connection to military identity, and time since military discharge as predictors of United States veteran suicide risk
  • Estimated Rates of Incident and Persistent Chronic Pain Among US Adults, 2019-2020
  • Evaluation of a Psychoeducational Group to Expand Mobile Application Knowledge and Use in a Veteran Residential Treatment Program

Research Update: 18 May 2023

By Shirl Kennedy  on 18.05.2023 12:23 pm

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

  • Sleep deficiency, operational fatigue and the interplay of compromising factors: Analysis to aid in fatigue management
  • Associations among meaning in life, coping, and distress in trauma-exposed U.S. military veterans
  • An Application of the Confluence Model of Sexual Aggression Among Young Adult Male Soldiers
  • Families transition, too! Military families transition out of service: a scoping review of research from the Five Eyes nations

Staff Perspective: Therapist, Health Thyself: Do We Really Need Self-Care?

By Diana Dolan  on 17.05.2023 9:55 am
Dr. Diana Dolan

I have a confession to make. I have never really bought into the concept of self-care from a personal perspective. I do think frequently about the risk for burnout in in the behavioral health field, I fully support self-care for others, and I encourage time for self-care among friends and colleagues. For myself though, the concept seemed foreign.

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