Deployment Psychology Blog

September 6, 2012: Research Update

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:
• A Positive Psychological Approach to Suicide Risk in a Clinical Sample.
• Perfectionism and Suicide Ideation: An Assessment of the Specific Vulnerability Hypothesis and Stress Generation Model.

August 30, 2012: Research Update

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:
• Anxiety and Depression in Marines Sent to War in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• The Effect of Traditional Masculine Gender Role Adherence on Community Reintegration Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Military Veterans.

Staff Voices - Review of "The Lucky One"

Huddled together, knee to knee with the other hapless passengers on last week’s trip to visit one of the 11 DoD Clinical Psychology Training sites, I stopped working on my notes when the cabin crew began to show The Lucky One. The film starring Zac Efron (Logan), Taylor Schilling (Beth) and Blythe Danner tells the story of a Marine Sergeant who searches for his guardian angel – an unknown woman in a photograph that he found on the battlefield and subsequently carried as a safety talisman during his tours of duty in Iraq.

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