Deployment Psychology Blog

By The Numbers: 05 June 2023

By Shirl Kennedy  on 05.06.2023 5:24 pm

70%

The percentage of "of all doctors in the U.S. trained at VA facilities", according to a recent article in MilitaryTimes -- How VA develops highly skilled compassionate health professionals.

At the Department of Veterans Affairs, we teach more than 118,000 health professional trainees annually how to treat the whole patient — not just the symptoms in front of them, but the struggles the patient might be going through that impact their health. 

Research Update: 1 June 2023

By Shirl Kennedy  on 01.06.2023 12:51 pm
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The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Reducing Opioid Use for Chronic Pain With a Group-Based Intervention: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
● Cannabis Use Disorder and Subsequent Risk of Psychotic and Nonpsychotic Unipolar Depression and Bipolar Disorder.
● Understanding a Time of High Risk for Suicide: Adversities Associated with Separation from Military Service among National Guard and Reserve Service Members.

Staff Perspective: Treating Our Adolescents in Uniform

By Andrea Israel  on 31.05.2023 9:19 am
Dr. Andrea Isreal

BLUF: If you work with our United States Service members, you may be treating more adolescents than you realize. Did you know that contemporary theories of human development consider adolescence to extend to about age 25? If we think of adolescence as extending to about age 25, adolescents comprise a large proportion of U.S. Active Duty and Selected Reserve service members.

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.

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