Blog posts with the tag "Staff Perspective"

Staff Perspective: Pandemic Environment, Combat, and Depression – How Memory and Tradition Can Help

By Debra Nofziger  on 25.01.2021 8:34 pm

The ongoing pandemic has created an environment of chronic stress, fear, tension and vigilance. While this is a difficult combination for all of us to experience, it can be especially difficult for those who have experienced this combination before, such as our combat Veterans. Traditions and rituals can help us remember more peaceful times and experience subsequent emotions, temper difficult memories from our past and stress of our present.  

Staff Perspective: Winter Reflections on the Summer Institute

By Elizabeth Parins  on 20.01.2021 9:17 am
Dr. Libby Parins

Each winter I write about the Center for Deployment Psychology’s Summer Institute (CDPSI) being a fantastic opportunity for doctoral students considering a career as a military psychologist to learn about military psychology, internships, and career paths. Typically, the CDPSI is an in-person, five-day course held on the campus of the Uniformed Services Health Science University (USU) in Bethesda, MD. As with most other in-person events in 2020, the CDPSI was converted to an online event last summer due to COVID-19. 

Staff Perspective: Gratitude as Self-Care

By Kevin Holloway  on 13.01.2021 10:04 am
Dr. Kevin Holloway

Many of you reading this now will likely agree with me that we’re looking forward to this new year. 2020 was certainly a year of upheaval, disconnection, distress, and for many people, significant loss. Indeed, all of us have experienced loss to one degree or another, whether that is loss of a loved one, income, ease of movement, or peace. Added to that is significant political discord, struggle for social justice, unjustified death and suffering, and disagreement on basic truth. It is easy to point to multiple examples of things we won’t miss about 2020

Staff Perspective: Learning from Military Family Resilience During COVID-19

By Marjorie Weinstock  on 06.01.2021 9:06 am
Dr. Marjorie Weinstock

Family resilience is also a topic that my colleagues and I have discussed a great deal over the past few months in regards to the current pandemic. So, my interest was piqued when I recently ran across an article by Dr. Heather Prime and colleagues in American Psychologist focusing on how to encourage family resilience in the wake of COVID-19-related stressors. One of the first things I noticed was that the conceptual framework that they use is very similar to the one we describe when talking about military family resilience in our training events.

Staff Perspective: USU’s Medical Psychology Doctoral Program - Training for Military-relevant, Non-clinical Careers in Psychology

By Jennifer Phillips  on 30.12.2020 12:36 pm
Dr. Jenny Phillips

The Uniformed Services University’s Medical Psychology graduate program offers a unique opportunity for civilian students to pursue a doctoral degree in a military-relevant, non-clinical area of Psychology.

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