Deployment Psychology Blog

Staff Perspective: Provider Resilience - How the Workplace Impacts Mental Health

As the world has struggled the past three years to navigate a pandemic, it has brought to the forefront the critical importance of self-care, especially for those in the helping environment. Thinking about self-care and resilience, it is often easiest to focus on the individual and to make them solely responsible for their well-being. Historically, we have been told to rest more, eat healthy, exercise, and meditate as ways of taking better care of ourselves. While all of these can have a positive impact on our overall well-being, it does not factor in the important role that workplaces can have in impacting, either positively or negatively, our well-being.

Staff Perspective: Resources to Discover Resilience-building Apps for Military-Connected Clients

Dr. Jenny Phillips

Mobile applications to support resilience-building have been an option for providers for more than a decade. But it can be difficult to know which apps best fit your client population and their goals. This blog summarizes and links three recent review articles that provide information about the functionality and effectiveness of resiliency-building apps for military-connected populations.

Research Update: 17 November 2022

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The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include: 
● Cannabis dosing and administration for sleep: a systematic review.
● The natural history of insomnia: high sleep reactivity interacts with greater life stress to predict the onset of acute insomnia.
● Diversity, equity, and inclusion correlates of racial/ethnic harassment and discrimination in the U.S. military.

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