Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Voices: Q & A on the Army’s Embedded Behavioral Health (EBH) program

Here in the Pacific Region, I am aware of what appears to be taking place across the Army, a great commitment and rapid transition toward building Embedded Behavioral Health (EBH) teams.  I noticed Service Members were no longer blindly picking and choosing a mental health provider. Instead, there are now teams including psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, and case managers assigned to a specific battalion, creating a more accessible pathway toward treatment.

Staff Voices: Integrating Deployment Experiences - The Process Group as a Critical Resource

In a previous blog entry (entitled “New Experiences, New Perspectives - Improving Therapy Outcomes”), I discussed the clinical utility of having Service Members who have deployed work to integrate their deployment-related experiences into the self, versus suppressing and/or avoiding them. My discussion focused more or less on what might be accomplished in the individual psychotherapy situation. In this entry, I will briefly argue for its use in group psychotherapy, as I have seen improvements (i.e., a decrease in symptom presentation) in individuals’ general mood and dispositions related to their deployment experiences.

By the Numbers - July 1, 2013

18,000

The number of same-sex couples "in the active-duty force," according to a recent Army Times article, Supreme Court strikes down DOMA. The Supreme Court's June 26 decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act clears the way for married same-sex servicemember partners to access more than 100 different military benefits currently available to married couples, including military health care coverage, on-base housing, paying for the spouse who accompanies a military member "on a permanent change of station move."

CDP News: June 28, 2013

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News, where we take a quick look at recent happenings and upcoming events at the Center for Deployment Psychology. It’s been a busy few days as we prepare for the upcoming holiday-shortened week. The CDP has recently expanded our social media presence. While you’ve previously been able to follow the CDP on our FacebookTwitter, and LinkedIn pages, we’ve decided to go even further and embrace new avenues of reaching out to behavioral health providers via social media.

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