Deployment Psychology Blog

Guest Perspective: Recommendations on How to Best Characterize and Document Suicide Risk

By Marjan Holloway  on 03.05.2016 1:54 pm

As educators in the field of suicidology, we have often trained and supervised providers in the conduct of suicide risk assessments. In general, we have noted that while providers are becoming more knowledgeable about how to perform a suicide risk assessment, they continue to experience challenges in how to best communicate about suicide risk. Based on our experiences, we would like to provide you with some practical recommendations when completing clinical documentation and when consulting with colleagues.​

Air Force Guide for Suicide Risk Assessment, Management, and Treatment
Appendices for Air Force Guide for Suicide Risk Assessment, Management, and Treatment

CDP News: Apr. 29, 2016

By Christopher Adams  on 29.04.2016 2:46 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. This week we were focused on internal matters, as most of the CDP was attending our annual All-Staff meeting. We’ve come up with some great plans for the future and are excited to get back to doing what we do best! Let’s see what’s coming up.

Staff Perspective: Confessions of a Military Brat

By Diana Dolan  on 27.04.2016 9:30 am

While at officer training at beautiful Maxwell AFB, Alabama, a fellow trainee remarked at how unattractive the base was.  I defended the base quickly, “Don’t you know this is actually a nice base?  The color scheme includes other colors besides brown.”  If you hear some righteous indignation coming through the text on this page, you would not be mistaken.  For me, the familiarity of the typical brown monotone of Air Force bases, and not a particular city, was my hometown.  For me, military culture was not just something I was voluntarily taking on as all Service members do in training, but something I was born into. 

Guest Perspective: Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) in a VA Hospital Setting - Findings and Observations

By Jason Goodson  on 26.04.2016 9:30 am

I have been training providers in Prolonged Exposure therapy (PE) and collecting outcome data for the past seven years.  Since I arrived at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, I have been involved in the training of approximately 45 clinicians in PE and collected outcomes for over 300 cases.  And while what follows is certainly not an exhaustive list of factors to consider in providing PE to a Veteran population, it does represent a convergence of my clinical observations and our empirical findings.  With that stated, my findings and observations in providing PE to veterans are:  1) therapist experience matters; 2) service-connection is an important issue; and 3) not enough attention is paid to safety behaviors.

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