Blog posts with the tag "Deployment"

Staff Perspective: The Deployment Life Study - Methodological Overview and Baseline Sample Description

By Marjorie Weinstock  on 25.06.2014 3:10 pm

Review of The RAND Report:

I recently had the opportunity to attend a webinar by the authors of the new RAND Report: “The Deployment Life Study: Methodological Overview and Baseline Sample Description.”  This is a topic that’s of interest to me both personally and professionally, so I wanted to share what I learned.  This is a 3-year study that is still ongoing, whose objective is to identify the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of family readiness across the deployment cycle.

Staff Perspective: “Gifts of the Heart” Review

By Augusto Ruiz  on 04.06.2014 1:00 pm

Provider sustainment is a challenge facing many military mental health and other health care providers. The book, “Gifts of the Heart,” written by Dr. Hassan A. Tettah, is a tale of how a Navy surgeon sustains himself through and after his arduous deployment in the Helmand Valley of Afghanistan. While this story is not an autobiography, it was influenced by real life events. The author was a Navy surgeon who first deployed to the Persian Gulf in 2005 and then later deployed to Afghanistan in 2011. 

Staff Voices: Can PTSD Be Treated with Yoga?

By Diana Sermanian  on 16.01.2013 6:42 am

I recently came across a Huffington Post article written by David Wood describing the practice of yoga and its benefits for service members in the military struggling with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  When asked to describe effective treatments for PTSD, I often speak about Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).  So, it's no surprise that this concept of treating PTSD with yoga caught my attention.

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