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 week we were busily preparing for the CDP-wide all-staff meeting next week, but we still had several events going on.
There will be no Research Update next week on April 28, and we'll see you again on May 5.
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:
● Military Sexual Trauma, PTSD Monthly Update - April 2016
● Mindlines - Edition 27/Winter 2016 (NCCOSC)
In last week’s blog, Caitlin Cook and Kimberly Copeland provided a thoughtful and comprehensive introduction to the military child. The authors chose to examine military children from a cultural (strengths-based) perspective rather than a clinical or pathological view. In keeping with this strengths-based theme, and in continuing our recognition of April as the “Month of the Military Child”, this week’s entry highlights some of the often-overlooked benefits of growing up as a military child.
Although the pace of deployment has decreased in recent years, military members continue to deploy to combat zones and other areas around the globe. Behavioral health providers who serve a military population are well aware of the ebbs and flows of stresses on military members and their families around deployment cycles. Modern evidence-based care includes use of appropriate psychotherapies and medications to treat major depressive disorder, PTSD, and other deployment-related conditions. In addition to providing good care, it is important to consider the compatibility of treatments with future deployments. The following article will discuss the concepts of deployment-limiting conditions and the impact of psychotropic medications on deploy ability.
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The current number of "general and flag officers (GFOs)," according to a recently released Congressional Research Service report -- General and Flag Officers in the U.S. Armed Forces: Background and Considerations for Congress (PDF). According to the report, this is less than the maximum number allowed by federal statute, which is 962.