Blog posts with the tag "Staff Perspective"

Staff Perspective: Suicide Postvention - Don’t Forget Clinician Survivors

By Lisa French  on 21.10.2015 1:44 pm
Lisa French, Psy.D.

Clinicians are affected when a patient suicides.  We may all be affected differently.  Some of us may grieve the loss, some of us may question our competence, and some of us may fear seeing future suicidal or high-risk patients.  There are also confounding variables that may arise following the suicide event that can complicate or extend the grief process, including legal/ethical issues, administrative requirements, and clinic procedures to name a few. 

Staff Perspective: Examining Exposure, Relaxation, and Rescription Therapy (EERT) for Nightmares

By Timothy Rogers  on 14.10.2015 12:53 pm

ERRT targets physiological, behavioral, cognitive aspects related to the development and maintenance of nightmares through a three-session treatment protocol. Each session is approximately 60 minutes and starts by providing psychoeducation about trauma, nightmares, and sleep hygiene, as well as teaching progressive muscle relaxation. The main emphasis is to provide relevant background information, modify maladaptive sleep habits, and to help patients gain proficiency with relaxation skills, such as progressive muscle relaxation.

Staff Perspective: CDP Presents the new “CDP Presents” Section

By Christopher Adams  on 07.10.2015 1:50 pm

Frequent visitors to the CDP website or social media pages may be aware of our monthly webinar series “CDP Presents.” However, for those who are not familiar with this program (and even for those who are!), we’d like to take a few minutes to spotlight this effort.

Staff Perspective: My Therapist Has a Wet Nose – The State of Research on Animal-Assisted Therapy for Military Clients

By Carin Lefkowitz  on 30.09.2015 1:29 pm

If you’re reading this, you’re probably one of those tree-hugging vegans who wants to bring their dog to work every day.  Me too.  Full disclosure: I wrote this blog mostly so I could watch cat videos on company time.  But perhaps you have more noble aspirations, such as understanding the current state of research on animal-assisted therapy for military clients.  A quick Internet search suggests you’re not alone. 

Staff Perspective: Yours, Mine, Ours…and the Military? Experiencing Deployment as a Blended Family

By Jennifer Phillips  on 23.09.2015 11:40 am

It was the summer of 2007 and I was in the homestretch of planning a wedding to my best friend, an active duty psychologist for the U.S. Navy stationed at Bethesda National Naval Medical Center (now Walter Reed Military Medical Center). We had chosen November 10th for our wedding date. I loved the idea of a fall wedding and my husband, also a former Marine, assured me that he would never forget our anniversary if we got married on the Marine Corps birthday. 

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