Blog posts with the tag "Staff Perspective"

Staff Perspective: Behavioral Health Treatment - A Pervasive Stigma

By Debra Nofziger  on 04.08.2021 12:36 pm

Can the stigma against seeking behavioral health treatment ever be fully banished? It's a difficult and important question. A person’s sense of self of identity depends on how they view themselves, or “who” they are instead of “what” they are physically. This distinction can make it relatively easy to seek medical treatment, but so much more threatening to ask for help from behavioral health providers. However, it takes so much more courage to analyze our internal self and admit that change may be needed.

Staff Perspective: Pathways to Military Internship

By Christopher Adams  on 28.07.2021 12:25 pm

This week, 26-30 July 2021, the Center for Deployment Psychology was proud to present the most recent iteration of The Summer Institute. This five-day program is designed to provide doctoral students a glimpse into what it is like to serve as a psychologist in the Armed Forces and to help prepare them for a military internship. It's become such a popular program that the CDP has decided to expand to a whole new season! Learn more about the new Winter Institute!

Staff Perspective: Celebrating 70 Years of Supporting Women

By Elizabeth Parins  on 20.07.2021 1:55 pm
Dr. Libby Parins

Much of the progress made for servicewomen across all branches of the armed forces can be attributed to recommendations form the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service or DACOWITS. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the DACOWITS. In preparation of this milestone anniversary, the 2020 DACOWITS report includes a detailed historical review of the committees influence from 1951- present (Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services 2020 Annual Report, 2021)

Staff Perspective: Addressing Stigma and Encouraging Mental Health Care in the Military - A Double-Edged Sword?

By Jennifer Phillips  on 14.07.2021 10:13 am
Dr. Jenny Phillips

A common target for stigma-reduction interventions is to increase social support within military units with the goal of fostering support for mental-health treatment for individual service members. Recent findings from a study of Army National Guard personnel suggest that these approaches may have some unexpected and unintended consequences for treatment-seeking in Service members with service-related mental health conditions.

Staff Perspective: Around the Web

By Christopher Adams  on 07.07.2021 1:06 pm
Chris Adams

For this week's Staff Perspective blog entry, we're going to take a quick look at a few interesting and military-psychology related stories from around the Internet.
Computerized Assessment Tools for PTSD Measurement: Researchers are testing the Computerized Adaptive Diagnostic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder screener (CAD-PTSD) and Computerized Adaptive Test for PTSD symptom severity (CAT-PTSD). Using fewer questions, 6 for the CAD and 10 for the CAT,  the electronic assessment tools compared favorably to the Clinician Administered Scale for PTSD for DSM-5 (CAPS-5).

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