Staff Perspective: Mobile Apps for Military Families
Over the past few years I’ve gotten more and more questions from audience members about mobile apps that are available for Service members and their families.
Deployment Psychology Blog
CDP News: Jan. 16, 2015
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. This was a busy week on several fronts here at the CDP. We’re making up for lost time now that the holidays are over!
Research Update: Jan. 15, 2015
The CDP's weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Professional Psychology: Research and Practice -- Special Issue: Research on Psychological Issues and Interventions for Military Personnel, Veterans, and Their Families
● Heart rate variability characteristics in a large group of active-duty marines and relationship to posttraumatic stress.
Staff Perspective: Socratic Dialogue, Part 2 - Professing Ignorance
Socrates believed that there are two phases to enable others in search of an understanding of their own truth. The Socratic Method is used in almost all behavioral health treatment and at its most simplistic is termed the use of open-ended questions. However, Socratic Dialogue is so much more than that – an art form that allows patients to begin the process of opening up to what is the actual truth.
By the Numbers - Jan. 12, 2015
1.3 million
The number of Service members (300,000) and dependents (1 million) who "are geographically remote for behavioral health care," according to a new study from the RAND Corporation -- Access to Behavioral Health Care for Geographically Remote Service Members and Dependents in the U.S.