Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: Review of the Future of Children’s Fall 2013 issue

By Marjorie Weinstock  on 27.11.2013 10:58 am

Since President Obama declared November 2013 to be Military Families Month, it seemed appropriate to write about military families.  My professional interest in military families began when I married my active duty Navy husband in 2005.  When I did my first literature review on military families, I was quite surprised by the size of the body of literature, much of which was quite outdated.  While the research literature on military families and children is still limited, it has grown significantly since then.

By the Numbers - Nov. 25, 2013

By Shirl Kennedy  on 25.11.2013 3:56 pm

2.6 million

The number of "veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and other theaters of the global war on terrorism" as of July 2013, according to a recently released study by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) -- Expanding the Net: Building Mental Health Care Capacity for Veterans. Citing the RAND Corporation's 2008 landmark report -- Invisible Wounds of War Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery -- the CNAS study indicated that "15 to 20 percent of these new combat veterans would come home with symptoms of PTSD or TBI (with significant overlap between these populations)."

CDP News: Nov. 22, 2013

By Christopher Adams  on 22.11.2013 3:53 pm

It’s Friday and time for the latest edition of CDP News, where we take a few moments to look back at recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, as well as looking ahead to upcoming events.

Research Update: Nov. 21, 2013

By Shirl Kennedy  on 21.11.2013 11:40 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:

  • Expanding the Net: Building Mental Health Care Capacity for Veterans
  • Prevalence, risk, and correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder across ethnic and racial minority groups in the United States.

Staff Perspective: The History of the New Military Culture Course

By William Brim  on 20.11.2013 4:03 pm

In October 2009, the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) conducted a joint Mental Health Summit that brought together behavioral health experts and leaders from both departments with the goal of developing a strategy that would facilitate coordination for the delivery of mental health services.

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