Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: The Deployment Life Study - Methodological Overview and Baseline Sample Description

By Marjorie Weinstock  on 25.06.2014 3:10 pm

Review of The RAND Report:

I recently had the opportunity to attend a webinar by the authors of the new RAND Report: “The Deployment Life Study: Methodological Overview and Baseline Sample Description.”  This is a topic that’s of interest to me both personally and professionally, so I wanted to share what I learned.  This is a 3-year study that is still ongoing, whose objective is to identify the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of family readiness across the deployment cycle.

CDP News: June 20, 2014

By Christopher Adams  on 20.06.2014 12:11 pm

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.  It’s been a busy week, full of training events all across the country. Next week looks like it’s going to be more of the same as we continue the CDP’s mission of offering high-quality training on evidence-based therapies to civilian and military behavioral health providers.

Research Update: June 19, 2014

By Shirl Kennedy  on 19.06.2014 11:44 am

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:

● Positive posttraumatic stress disorder screens among first-time medical cannabis patients: Prevalence and association with other substance use.

● Proinflammatory milieu in combat-related PTSD is independent of depression and early life stress.

Staff Perspective: June is PTSD Awareness Month

By General Member  on 18.06.2014 2:44 pm

Even though PTSD is an important topic year-round, it takes the forefront this month as June is National PTSD Awareness Month. In 2010, Congress designated June 27th as PTSD Awareness Day.  Since then many organizations, including the Center for Deployment Psychology, have attempted to highlight PTSD and provide resources for behavioral health providers, as well as those in need. Below you will find links to a variety of resources and organizations that may assist in the treatment of PTSD.

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