Blog posts with the tag "Staff Perspective"

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.

Staff Perspective: An App for Providers, Helping Us in Sustaining Self-Care and Resiliency

By Laura Cho-Stutler  on 26.04.2017 10:05 am

It seems like everyone is carrying a smartphone these days. Some of the attributes that make these devices an asset to therapy include they’re portable, acceptable, always on (this benefit is probably up for discussion), low cost, programmable, audio and video output, user-friendliness, and ease of use (Boschen, 2008). More and more we are able to recommend and guide our patients through various evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) with the help of evidence-based mobile health applications or so-called “apps”. For providers, we now have the same accessibility of a tool that can help us implement self-care practices in our day. 

Staff Perspective: Five Years of the CDP Blog

By William Brim  on 19.04.2017 11:23 am

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what are almost a thousand blogs worth?  I suppose that depends on the blog,...but consider the idea that a blog is intended to inform its target audience with timely information that is conversational, directly useful, and regularly updated.  Then ask yourself the worth of a blog for behavioral health providers that provided weekly research updates, statistics, and national expert opinions on issues related to the psychological well-being of Service members, Veterans and their families.  Hopefully you’d agree that it would be invaluable, especially if it was free!

Staff Perspective: New EBP Video Section

By Christopher Adams  on 13.04.2017 2:55 pm

We here at the Center for Deployment Psychology are excited to unveil the new Evidence-Based Psychotherapies video section on our website. As part of our multi-day EBP training events, we use many videos to demonstrate a variety of techniques. One of the most common request we receive is participants wanting the opportunity to watch these videos again afterwards to help reinforce the concepts. Now those interested can watch (and re-watch) all these video demonstrations whenever they want. 

Staff Perspective - Preparing for Another Deployment: Reflections on Month of the Military Child

By April Thompson  on 05.04.2017 10:29 am

April is the Month of the Military Child and as I think about why we set-aside a month for this purpose, I reflect on the phrase “Kids serve, too.”  You’ll often hear this phrase used as a short-hand acknowledgement of the fact that children of our military Service members make sacrifices right alongside their parents.  The life of a military child includes challenges such as frequent relocations, long separations from a deployed parent (or parents) and the uncertainty that can come from being a part of a military-connected family.  Since 2001, over two million children have experienced the military deployment of a parent with many of them experiencing multiple deployments.

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