Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: Challenge Breeds Resilience: Recognizing the Benefits of Growing Up as a Military Child

In last week’s blog, Caitlin Cook and Kimberly Copeland provided a thoughtful and comprehensive introduction to the military child. The authors chose to examine military children from a cultural (strengths-based) perspective rather than a clinical or pathological view. In keeping with this strengths-based theme, and in continuing our recognition of April as the “Month of the Military Child”, this week’s entry highlights some of the often-overlooked benefits of growing up as a military child.

Guest Perspective: Deployment, Mental Health Conditions and Psychotropic Medications – Good to Go?

Although the pace of deployment has decreased in recent years, military members continue to deploy to combat zones and other areas around the globe.  Behavioral health providers who serve a military population are well aware of the ebbs and flows of stresses on military members and their families around deployment cycles.  Modern evidence-based care includes use of appropriate psychotherapies and medications to treat major depressive disorder, PTSD, and other deployment-related conditions.  In addition to providing good care, it is important to consider the compatibility of treatments with future deployments.  The following article will discuss the concepts of deployment-limiting conditions and the impact of psychotropic medications on deploy ability.

CDP News: Apr. 15, 2016

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. April continues to keep all of us busy, which is exactly how we like it. Let’s take a look!

Research Update: Apr. 14, 2016

The CDP's weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:

● Predictors of Positive Illicit Drug Tests After OEF/OIF Deployment Among Army Enlisted Service Members.
● Self-Directed Violence Aboard U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers: An Examination of General and Shipboard-Specific Risk and Protective Factors.

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