As we enter the final week of March, we here at the Center for Deployment Psychology wanted to take a moment to remind everyone again that March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. This is particularly relevant, as Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) has been labeled the “signature injury” of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This has driven the identification and treatment of mTBIs to the forefront of concerns in military healthcare.
I’ve recently received several questions about the provider community area on the CDP’s website. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to explore that topic a bit.
In today's Staff Perspective column, we take a look at the new live online training sessions that the CDP offers. They're great opportunities for providers to receive high-quality training on evidence-based psychotherapies from CDP instructors within the comfort of their own home or office. Click below for more details on these programs!
Last summer my colleague Holly O’Reilly filled you in on some of the changes to the PTSD diagnosis with the publication of DSM-5. After reviewing the changes side-by-side, I thought it might be helpful to share this table with you detailing the differences, so you could look at the key changes in context and get a handle on what is different and what has stayed the same.
Personality psychologists over time have theorized about various aspects of the “self.” E.