Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: Oct. 16, 2014

By Shirl Kennedy  on 16.10.2014 10:42 am

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:

  • Trauma Exposure and Cigarette Smoking: The Impact of Negative Affect and Affect- Regulatory Smoking Motives.
  • PTSD-related alcohol expectancies and impulsivity interact to predict alcohol use severity in a substance dependent sample with PTSD.
  • Integrating modern concepts of insomnia and its contemporary treatment into primary care.

CDP News: Oct. 10, 2014

By Christopher Adams  on 10.10.2014 11:04 am

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. After a busy week, everyone’s looking forward to the long weekend, but first we’ve got plenty to talk about from this and next week.

Research Update: Oct. 9, 2014

By Shirl Kennedy  on 09.10.2014 2:19 pm

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:

● Women Veterans: The Long Journey Home 
● Psychomotor vigilance performance predicted by Epworth Sleepiness Scale scores in an operational setting with the United States Navy. 

Staff Perspectives: Spotlight on CDP Podcasts

By Christopher Adams  on 08.10.2014 3:42 pm

At the Center for Deployment Psychology, we’re always looking for new ways to fulfill our mission to provide training and education to behavioral health provider to ensure they’re able to offer the highest-quality care to Service members and Veterans. On our website, we use several avenues to try and facilitate this effort and today we’re going to take a look at one of those methods, specifically, podcasts.  

By the Numbers - Oct. 6, 2014

By Shirl Kennedy  on 06.10.2014 1:31 pm

3,527

The number of Service members receiving an "incident diagnoses of one of the eating disorders: anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), or 'eating disorder, not otherwise specified" between 2004–2013, according to an article in the September 2014 issue of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center's Medical Surveillance Monthly Report -- Diagnoses of Eating Disorders Among Active Component Service Members, U.S. Armed Forces, 2004–2013.

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