Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: Practical Treatment Essentials for PTSD-Related Anger

By Holly O'Reilly  on 11.06.2014 10:33 am

June is national Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder awareness month.  As behavioral health professionals raise awareness of PTSD and effective PTSD treatments, I would be remiss if I did not mention anger as it relates to PTSD. This post will briefly review a model of anger related to PTSD, provide recommendations for measuring anger in clinical populations and practical information for clinical intervention with military populations experiencing anger and PTSD. At the end of the post, I have included additional resources on anger management and PTSD. Please feel free to contribute your thoughts on what has been helpful in your clinical practice.

CDP News: June 6, 2014

By Christopher Adams  on 06.06.2014 12:59 pm

Welcome to June and 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. Summer is heating up around here, but that’s not slowing us down any!

Research Update: June 5, 2014

By Shirl Kennedy  on 05.06.2014 1:43 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:

● The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS). 
● Commentary on “The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS)”: Army STARRS: A Framingham-Like Study of Psychological Health Risk Factors in Soldiers

Staff Perspective: “Gifts of the Heart” Review

By Augusto Ruiz  on 04.06.2014 1:00 pm

Provider sustainment is a challenge facing many military mental health and other health care providers. The book, “Gifts of the Heart,” written by Dr. Hassan A. Tettah, is a tale of how a Navy surgeon sustains himself through and after his arduous deployment in the Helmand Valley of Afghanistan. While this story is not an autobiography, it was influenced by real life events. The author was a Navy surgeon who first deployed to the Persian Gulf in 2005 and then later deployed to Afghanistan in 2011. 

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