Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 3 May 2018

By Shirl Kennedy  on 03.05.2018 12:27 pm

The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Talking about Sexual Abuse, PTSD Monthly Update - April 2018
● Associations of Time-Related Deployment Variables With Risk of Suicide Attempt Among Soldiers: Results From the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Service members (Army STARRS).
● Suicide Ideation in Female Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma: The Trauma Source Matters.

Staff Perspective: Forces for Health - Warrior Wednesday

By Christopher Adams  on 02.05.2018 10:59 am

Starting today and continuing on Wednesdays throughout May, CDP is proud to introduce a new, annual webinar series examining multi-disciplinary care for Service members, Veterans, and their families. "Forces For Health: Warrior Wednesday" is a four-part webinar series via the Zoom teleconferencing platform.

CDP News: 27 April 2018

By Christopher Adams  on 26.04.2018 12:51 pm

Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. We're in the final days of April and our Sleep Spotlight month.

Research Update: 26 April 2018

By Shirl Kennedy  on 25.04.2018 3:21 pm
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The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web and a special section focused on sleep and sleep-disturbances. Some of this week's topics include:
● Means restriction for the prevention of suicide: generic protocol.
● Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in DSM- 5 and ICD- 11: Clinical and Behavioral Correlates.
● Military Sexual Assault in Transgender Veterans: Results From a Nationwide Survey.
● Nightmares in United States Military Personnel with Sleep Disturbances.

Staff Perspective: Sleep Among Special Duty Military Personnel

By David Reynolds  on 25.04.2018 11:02 am

During this month’s Sleep Team takeover of the CDP website, I wanted to take a minute to talk about a particularly hard hit subset of military members, Special Duty personnel. Over my career I had many opportunities to work with these elite military members both as a clinician and as an embedded consultant. Sleep problems are endemic in this population, so let’s take a quick look at who they are and what types of issues are affecting their mission readiness related to sleep.

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