Blog posts with the tag "Deployment"

Staff Perspective: Can Good People Do Bad Things?

By Sharon Birman  on 14.08.2019 9:35 am
Sharon Birman, Psy.D.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among Service members and Veterans receives a lot of well-deserved attention. That said, it was not until 1992, that the term Moral Injury was coined by Dr. Jonathan Shay to describe the devastating impacts of an event or experience that violates one’s personal ideals, ethics, moral expectations, conscience, or attachments. Since moral expectations are at the core of who we are as humans, moral injury describes a fracture to one’s deepest sense of being. The result of this moral violation can lead to guilt, existential crisis, and loss of trust (Jinkerson, 2016).  

Staff Perspective: Pondering the impact of Dynamic Force Employment on Navy Couples - Managing Relationships During Times of Uncertainty

By April Thompson  on 13.02.2019 10:56 am
April Thompson, LCSW

“Dynamic Force Employment” When I first heard this term, I thought it was a new program designed to help military spouses find jobs.   There are new initiatives being created all the time to support spouses and families and I thought this might be one of them.  I was wrong.

Staff Perspective: Military Family Deployment Cycle Challenges

By Marjorie Weinstock  on 22.05.2018 3:02 pm
Marjorie Weinstock, Ph.D.

Recently I reviewed the current literature on military families and deployment in preparation for updating the Center for Deployment’s (CDP) online course, The Impact of Deployment on Families and Children. While this is a topic that I’ve been teaching since I first joined the CDP almost nine years ago, I was excited when I ran across an article that summarized the deployment cycle challenges that military families face in a new way.

Staff Perspective: The Deployment Life Study

By Marjorie Weinstock  on 03.05.2017 11:07 am

While reading Dr. Brim’s recent 5-year retrospective of the CDP’s blog, I was reminded that back in 2014 I’d written a blog post summarizing the RAND report on the methodology and baseline sample of the Deployment Life Study.  The Deployment Life Study is a longitudinal study launched in 2009 that was designed to look at the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of family readiness across the deployment cycle (where family readiness was defined as the state of “being prepared to effectively navigate the challenges of daily living experienced in the unique context of military service”).  The results from this study were actually published about a year ago (it’s amazing how time flies!), so I thought this would be a great opportunity to take a deeper look at the results of the study.

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