Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: What’s the State of PTSD Awareness?

By David Reynolds  on 27.06.2018 11:05 am

June is PTSD Awareness Month. So I decided to dip into the research to get a sense of how “aware” people are about PTSD. One thing I discovered: awareness is likely insufficient for the changes needed to adequately address the problem that many with PTSD do not recognize they have a behavioral health condition that requires treatment to avoid short- and long-term problems. Ideally, everyone should be able to recognize someone who is traumatized and, as with suicide, talk with them in an empathic manner to encourage them to get help.

By the Numbers: 25 June 2018

By Shirl Kennedy  on 25.06.2018 12:00 pm

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The proportion of "US military casualties among service members evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan" caused by "non-battle injuries," according to a recent article in the journal JAMA Surgery -- A 12-Year Analysis of Nonbattle Injury Among US Service Members Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The article also noted that non-battle injuries were the cause of 11.5% of all deaths among this cohort.

CDP News: 22 June 2018

By Christopher Adams  on 22.06.2018 9:42 am

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. June is wrapping up already, but we’ve got plenty on the schedule.

Research Update: 21 June 2018

By Shirl Kennedy  on 21.06.2018 11:32 am
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The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Differential Effects of an Evolutionary-Based EMDR Therapy on Depression and Anxiety Symptoms: A Case Series Study.
● Dissociative symptoms mediate the relation between PTSD symptoms and functional impairment in a sample of military members, veterans, and first responders with PTSD.
● Posttraumatic Cognitions and Suicidal Ideation Among Veterans Receiving PTSD Treatment.

Staff Perspective: CPT Group for Military-Connected Patients: Applying Research to Clinical Practice

By Carin Lefkowitz  on 19.06.2018 3:05 pm
Carin Lefkowitz, Psy.D.

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is one of the gold-standard treatments available to adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and remains a first-line recommended treatment in the latest VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of PTSD and Acute Stress Disorder (DVA & DoD, 2017).  CPT is a robust and flexible treatment in that it can be delivered with or without a written trauma account, in person or via tele-health, and individually or in group format.  Dozens of randomized control trials and effectiveness trials demonstrate that CPT is one of the most effective treatments for PTSD in both civilian and military-connected populations.

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