COVID-19 Behavioral Health Resources

U.S. Army photo by Melody Everly.
U.S. Army photo by Melody Everly

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Deployment Psychology has developed a collection of resources designed to help providers support military-connected patients while simultaneously adapting themselves to changing circumstances. You’ll find information below about delivering services via telehealth modalities, addressing symptoms and concerns of specific patient populations, and coping with your own reactions to the current crisis. We will update this page and add new resources as they become available. Last updated 23 February 2023 (Click to see the most recent updates)

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Resources for Delivering Services via Telehealth Resources for Military Families Addressing Broad Mental Health Needs Working with Healthcare Providers and Other Frontline Workers
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Resources for Delivering Services via Telehealth

Maintaining Capacity During Covid 19: An Opportunity for Clinicians to Utilize Telehealth Resources - Resources for behavioral health providers who are implementing telehealth services for the first time. Includes guidance from professional associations, information about reimbursement, and educational opportunities.

Webinar: Suddenly Telehealth - How to Implement EBPs with Fidelity and Effectiveness - Due to the rapid spread of COVID-19, an unprecedented number of clinicians are scrambling to take their practice online. A particular concern for clinicians working with Service members is adapting EBPs for telehealth. In this webinar, CDP staff will provide practice advice for adapting EBPs for PTSD, depression, and sleep problems for use in telehealth.

Q&A from the Suddenly Telehealth Webinar presentation - This PDF contains several additional questions and answers that weren't able to be addressed during the original presentation of the "Suddenly Telehealth" webinar.

Staff Perspective: Can EBPs Be Delivered by Videoconferencing or Telephone? - As providers struggle to continue to deliver evidence-based psychotherapy without face-to-face contact, questions arise about adaptations for videoconferencing and even telephone-only delivery of services. This blog summarizes recommendations from our consultants on how to quickly adapt services in light of the coronavirus outbreak. 

Preparing for Telehealth Patient Checklist - A checklist to help patients prepare for and get the most out of their telehealth sessions.  This fillable form can be provided to patients prior to their telehealth appointment and updated as needed.

Staff Perspective: Couples Counseling During COVID-19 - Telehealth Lessons Learned - It has now been over a year since the majority of behavioral health providers have moved to predominantly or exclusively providing therapy via telehealth. This blog will examine several publications sharing initial findings about the experience of online couples therapy by providers and patients as well as some lessons learned over the past year.

Collecting Self-Report Assessment Data via Telehealth - A tip sheet on how to administer and review self-report measures via telehealth. Suggestions are provided whether assessment is being conducted via telephone or videoconferencing.

Telehealth Vlog: With the evolving health crisis related to COVID-19, an unprecedented number of mental health practitioners are taking their practice online to provide continuity of care and continue to ensure access to services for military clients and families. Understandably, such a quick and major transition can be stressful. In this video blog, Drs. Jeff Mann and Andy Santanello discuss some of their experiences in providing telehealth services over the last several years and touch on many of the common challenges providers who are new to telehealth may encounter. (PDF Transcript)
To access the resource mentioned by Dr. Mann, click here: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/03/17/ocr-announces-notification-of-enforcement-discretion-for-telehealth-remote-communications-during-the-covid-19.html

Staff Perspective: Considerations for Telehealth and Using CBT-I Coach Mobile App - Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, behavioral healthcare providers are facing numerous challenges, including the rapid transition from delivering in-person care to providing telehealth services for patients. Research has demonstrated multiple benefits of using mobile app technology. This blog will focus on reviewing key ethical issues to consider when using mobile apps while providing telehealth services, using the CBT-I Coach mobile app as an example.

EBP-Specific Telehealth Resources - A collection of resources designed to facilitate the use of EBPs in a telehealth environment.

Moving Behavioral Sleep Medicine Interventions to Telehealth - Resources to implement a variety of behavioral sleep interventions via telehealth. 

Patient Forms - A page where patients can be directed to download forms and handouts commonly used in psychotherapy. 

Telehealth in Adobe Connect Quick-Start Guide (PDF) - A concise reference tool for providers using Adobe Connect.

Adobe Connect Patient Guide (PDF) - A quick-start guide for patients using Adobe Connect for telehealth sessions.

Telehealth Guidelines Organized by State (From APA): State emergency orders relevant to licensed psychologists during the COVID-19 public health crisis.

Peer-Reviewed Papers on Telepsychology from APA's Division 12: The Society of Clinical Psychology compiled a list of recent peer-reviewed papers on telepsychology organized by treatment area.


Resources for Military Families

Ask the Experts: Tips for Military Families During the COVID-19 Crisis - While many organizations offer helpful suggestions for talking with children about the COVID-19 crisis, few specifically address the unique challenges currently faced by military families. We reached out to a few experts who work with children and adolescents to fill in some of these gaps.

Staff Perspective: The Challenges of COVID-19 on Military Families and the Resilience of Military Kids - As our soldiers rapidly respond to contain and combat COVID-19, military families are charged with the familiar mission of supporting our nations troops in the face of uncertainty.

Staff Perspective: Military Families Share Their Experiences During COVID-19 - Dr. Jenny Phillips shares information about the unique impacts of the pandemic on military families using information gathered directly from five different military families during the first wave of COVID-19.

Resources for Military Couples - Supporting relationships during this time of pandemic and stay-at-home orders is especially important to individuals’ mental health. This page highlights resources focused on couples to help them navigate stressors and strengthen connections.

Staff Perspective: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Military - Dr. Paula Domenici looks at the research on how COVID-19 is uniquely affecting Service members and their families, as well as potential solutions to minimize the stressors.

Resources for Military Families - Resources for military-connected families can be challenging to access during this global pandemic, so virtual resources are crucial. Fortunately, several useful tools exist to support military families and to help parents talk with children about Coronavirus.


Addressing Broad Mental Health Needs

Staff Perspective: My Experience with Mental Illness and COVID-19 - Coping with a mental illness is always difficult, but the COVID-19 pandemic presents additional challenges. The author shares her personal story of how the pandemic has impacted her treatment and how she is practicing self-care. She offers helpful suggestions for those coping with behavioral health conditions and their support systems.

Staff Perspective: Digging Deeper - As I write this, I am wrapping up end of year tasks (this is one of the last must-dos) and looking forward to 2022. I think it is going to look much different than any of us expected. I know for myself, I thought, perhaps naively, that we would be past some of the COVID challenges. I was hopeful at this time last year that we would be back to some normalcy. While things are different than a year ago, we still have a long way to go in managing life as COVID continues to bring more challenges and new variants.

Staff Perspective: Impact of COVID-19 on Couples Accessing Counseling - As someone who hadn’t seen patients on an outpatient basis for several years, I decided in late 2021 to explore the world of telehealth. Telehealth was new to me as it was to many clinicians. I think the combination of more time at home and the increased need for access to behavioral health I was seeing in my role as a crisis clinician sparked my desire to begin seeing patients again. As I began building my client load, many clients were couples.

.Creating a Healthy Mind-Set During a Pandemic (PDF) - It's normal to have negative thoughts that pop into our minds, especially when in the midst of a pandemic. We provide examples of more balanced ways of thinking, which can create more healthy thoughts and in turn calm our emotional reactions.

Staff Perspective: Alcohol Use and the COVID-19 Pandemic - While increased alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic has often been the focus of jokes and memes in social media, information about the magnitude and reasons behind these increases are not as amusing.

Staff Perspective: Alcohol Use and the COVID-19 Pandemic - The Dangers of Excessive Consumption - Research has established evidence of increased alcohol sales and consumption over the past 6-8 months. In this blog, we explore the increased risks to both health and sobriety associated with excessive alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Staff Perspective: Intimate Partner Violence and the Power and Control Wheel - A Closer Look at the Impact of COVID-19 - According to the CDC (2021), intimate partner violence is defined as “physical violence, sexual violence, stalking, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse. This type of violence can occur among heterosexual or same-sex couples and does not require sexual intimacy.” This blog will examine the dynamics present when men perpetrate intimate partner violence toward their female partners during a pandemic.

Staff Perspective: Social Isolation and the Elderly During COVID-19 - Whether the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic influences suicide rates in older adults remains unknown. Nevertheless, experts suggest a convergence of risk factors for suicide, which may uniquely impact the elderly.

Staff Perspective: COVID-19, Connectedness, and Suicide Prevention - September is National Suicide Prevention Month and one goal is to help provide information on suicide prevention programs and resources. Although it is important to focus on suicide prevention every day of every year, given the challenges of 2020, this year it may be even more important.

Staff Perspective: Can a Virus Lead to Stigma? - Feelings of fear and anxiety related to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can inadvertently lead to social stigma due to lack of knowledge or misinformation about how COVID-19 spreads, a need to blame someone, and fears related to the disease and death.

Guest Perspective: Guilt, Shame, and Moral Injury from Events during the COVID-19 Pandemic - The pandemic has created numerous situations that can be the cause of guilt, shame, and moral injury. For many these feelings will be transient, but for some, they may be long-lasting, distressing, and require intervention.

General Sleep Tips (PDF) - A set of strategies for getting sleep back on track after a stressful, life-disrupting event.

Getting the Most Out of Your Group Telehealth Sessions: Tips for Providers - Guidance for providers implementing group therapy over telehealth

Getting the Most Out of Your Group Telehealth Sessions: Tips for Patients - Guidance for patients logging in for group therapy sessions.

COVID Coach App - A link to a new, free app from the VA's National Center for PTSD. The COVID Coach App was created for everyone, including Service members and Veterans, to suppor self-care and overall mental health during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.


Working with Healthcare Providers and Other Frontline Providers

CDP Presents: The Moral Cost of Responding to COVID-19 - Identifying and Addressing Moral Injury in Healthcare Personnel and First Responders - Given the current pandemic and concerns about moral distress experienced by individuals on the frontlines, CDP will convene a group of experts to discuss strategies for identifying and addressing moral injury. The goal is to bring leaders in the field together to share ideas and recommendations about how behavioral health providers and communities can support individuals at risk for experiencing distress from exposure to COVID-19-related ethical challenges.

Staff Perspective: On the Front Lines - Helping Our Helpers - As we navigate through these unprecedented times, as helping professionals, we prepare ourselves to help those patients who come our way. What we are less prepared for, are those times that our patients are one of us. The author answers the question, “How does caring for one of our own affect our work during this time of crisis?”

Staff Perspective: A Discussion with Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock on Moral Distress and Helping COVID-19 Healthcare Workers - Dr. Rita Brock recently shared her thoughts on moral distress and injury and COVID-19 frontline workers with me. Dr. Brock has spent much of her career as an academic in philosophy and religion, obtaining her doctorate in this field in 1988. Her interests turned toward moral injury after a 2009 article by Dr. Brett Litz “grabbed me and wouldn’t let me go.”

Guest Perspective: Because We Care - Risk for Moral Injury During the COVID-19 Pandemic - In his blog, Dr. Bill Nash shares his conceptualization about moral injury and burnout in healthcare professionals who are currently confronting the invisible dangers presented by this crisis. By drawing parallels between the risks for moral injury in Service members and those in frontline human service workers, he raises awareness on this important topic and highlights implications from combat-related moral suffering that can be applied to the health care community. He makes insightful recommendations for how we can work together to address burnout in this at-risk group.

Staff Perspective: Moral Distress, Residue, and the Crescendo Effect - Understanding the Potential Impact of the Extended COVID-19 Crisis  - The fields of medicine and nursing have been looking at moral distress for a few decades now. While there is much debate about the specific definition of "moral distress," there is agreement that it is something different than compassion fatigue, burnout, and even moral injury.

Redeploying Healthcare Workers After a Crisis Response (PDF) - Stress-management skills for healthcare workers before, during, and after a disaster response

A Guide to Support the Well-Being of Healthcare Personnel During a Time of Crisis - CDP contributed to the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH)'s resource on helping healthcare personnel. This tool is designed for healthcare workers to quickly navigate to evidence-based information from USU partners, including the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, the Center for Deployment Psychology, and the Consortium for Health and Military Performance.


Resources for Working with Other Specific Populations

Helping Patients Combat OCD Symptoms When the Danger is Real - A resource for providers using Exposure and Response Prevention with patients during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Considerations for Providers Treating Patients with PTSD During the COVID-19 Outbreak - Anticipating the changing needs of patients with PTSD and recommendations for treatment.

Self-Care Tips for Hospitalized or Quarantined Patients - Patients who are physically isolated are likely to struggle with an increased stress response at the same time that they have limited coping resources available to them. Tips are provided to help you practice basic self-care while hospitalized or quarantined. A list of potentially useful free apps are also provided.

Staff Perspective: The Intersection of the Coronavirus Pandemic, Racism, and Suicide Risk  - It has been a tough year for many people around the world as we struggle to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Within the United States, we have not only surpassed the 6 million mark of people infected with the virus, but our deaths from the virus are nearing 200,000. We are more than six months into a period of extended social distancing and quarantine, and most of us are feeling depleted. To add to this stress, we also have a second pandemic we are battling, the racism pandemic.

Staff Perspective: Telehealth and Couples Counseling - Considerations for Providers  - Delivering behavioral health services remotely is particularly relevant right now. This Staff Perspective column, by CDP's April Thompson, takes a look at considerations for presenting couples counseling via telehealth, including safety, managing conflict, the therapy process, and more..


Adjusting to Full-time Teleworking, Social Distancing, and the Coronavirus Outbreak

Adjusting to Telework Vlog: As many struggle to adapt to full-time telework during the COVID-19 outbreak, CDP's veteran teleworkers share tips for maintaining productivity, addressing obstacles, and maintaining a work/life balance. They discuss their ideal telework plans as well as how they've adjusted to changing demands during this crisis. (PDF Transcript)

Staff Perspective: Learning from Military Familiy Resilience During COVID-19 - Family resilience is also a topic that my colleagues and I have discussed a great deal over the past few months in regards to the current pandemic. So, my interest was piqued when I recently ran across an article by Dr. Heather Prime and colleagues in American Psychologist focusing on how to encourage family resilience in the wake of COVID-19-related stressors. One of the first things I noticed was that the conceptual framework that they use is very similar to the one we describe when talking about military family resilience in our training events.

Staff Perspective: Pandemic Environment, Combat, and Depression - How Memory and Tradition Can Help - The ongoing pandemic has created an environment of chronic stress, fear, tension and vigilance. While this is a difficult combination for all of us to experience, it can be especially difficult for those who have experienced this combination before, such as our combat Veterans. Traditions and rituals can help us remember more peaceful times and experience subsequent emotions, tempering difficult memories from our past and the stress of our present.

Staff Perspective: Military Familiy Resilience and COVID-19 - Resilience in military families is the norm. As the effects of the pandemic continue to be felt, and in many cases amplified, the need for all of us to adjust to changes, sometimes on a daily basis, is greater than ever before. Civilian families can benefit from the lessons learned from military families across the generations. Creating new traditions, staying connected with love ones through long separations, and major shifts in social networks are all skills military families learn early in military service.

Staff Perspective: COVID-19 and Self-Reintegration - Current social-distancing has limited ways we cope with both internal and external stressors. The less we are able to distract ourselves with the external world, the more time we have to listen to our own thoughts. How do we and our patients cope with personal demons when usual distractions are out of reach? What about those of us who are loving isolation because it has cut down on the external stressors?

Staff Perspective: Masks - To Wear or Not To Wear? - Anyone else feel like you are constantly navigating new life territory due to the COVID-19 pandemic? I do! At every turn, it seems there is a new question or decision, and it is draining my energy at record pace. Another big decision for all of us amidst this pandemic is whether to wear a mask in public or not.

Social Distancing Resources - The stress of COVID-19 social distancing is very real, but no one has to suffer alone. Many organizations and agencies have compiled resources to both give information about what to expect as well as resources to help people cope. Some of these resources are listed here.

Staff Perspective: Learning to Live with Danger - Dr. Deb Nofziger discusses how her deployment experiences have influenced her views on living during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Other organizations that may help you structure your practice

American Psychiatric Association: https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/covid-19-coronavirus
American Psychological Association: https://www.apa.org/practice/programs/dmhi/research-information/pandemics
National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/covid/index.asp
National Register of Health Service Psychologists: https://www.nationalregister.org/coronavirus-resources/
The Trust (APA): https://www.trustinsurance.com/Resouces/Articles/guidance-for-practitioners-coronavirus-covid-19
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: https://asprtracie.hhs.gov/technical-resources/115/covid-19-behavioral-health-resources/99


Recently Added

Updated 23 February

Staff Perspective: Impact of COVID-19 on Couples Accessing Counseling - As someone who hadn’t seen patients on an outpatient basis for several years, I decided in late 2021 to explore the world of telehealth. Telehealth was new to me as it was to many clinicians. I think the combination of more time at home and the increased need for access to behavioral health I was seeing in my role as a crisis clinician sparked my desire to begin seeing patients again. As I began building my client load, many clients were couples.

Updated 21 December

Staff Perspective: Digging Deeper - As I write this, I am wrapping up end of year tasks (this is one of the last must-dos) and looking forward to 2022. I think it is going to look much different than any of us expected. I know for myself, I thought, perhaps naively, that we would be past some of the COVID challenges. I was hopeful at this time last year that we would be back to some normalcy. While things are different than a year ago, we still have a long way to go in managing life as COVID continues to bring more challenges and new variants.

Updated 21 April

Staff Perspective: Couples Counseling During COVID-19 - Telehealth Lessons Learned - It has now been over a year since the majority of behavioral health providers have moved to predominantly or exclusively providing therapy via telehealth. This blog will examine several publications sharing initial findings about the experience of online couples therapy by providers and patients as well as some lessons learned over the past year.

Updated 31 March

Staff Perspective: A Discussion with Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock on Moral Distress and Helping COVID-19 Healthcare Workers - Dr. Rita Brock recently shared her thoughts on moral distress and injury and COVID-19 frontline workers with me. Dr. Brock has spent much of her career as an academic in philosophy and religion, obtaining her doctorate in this field in 1988. Her interests turned toward moral injury after a 2009 article by Dr. Brett Litz “grabbed me and wouldn’t let me go.”

Updated 1 March

Staff Perspective: Intimate Partner Violence and the Power and Control Wheel - A Closer Look at the Impact of COVID-19 - According to the CDC (2021), intimate partner violence is defined as “physical violence, sexual violence, stalking, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse. This type of violence can occur among heterosexual or same-sex couples and does not require sexual intimacy.” This blog will examine the dynamics present when men perpetrate intimate partner violence toward their female partners during a pandemic.

Updated 10 February

Staff Perspective: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Military - Dr. Paula Domenici looks at the research on how COVID-19 is uniquely affecting Service members and their families, as well as potential solutions to minimize the stressors.

Updated 27 January

Staff Perspective: Pandemic Environment, Combat, and Depression - How Memory and Tradition Can Help - The ongoing pandemic has created an environment of chronic stress, fear, tension and vigilance. While this is a difficult combination for all of us to experience, it can be especially difficult for those who have experienced this combination before, such as our combat Veterans. Traditions and rituals can help us remember more peaceful times and experience subsequent emotions, temper difficult memories from our past and stress of our present.

Updated 25 January

Social Distancing Resources - The stress of COVID-19 social distancing is very real, but no one has to suffer alone. Many organizations and agencies have compiled resources to both give information about what to expect as well as resources to help people cope. Some of these resources are listed here.

Added 6 January

Staff Perspective: Learning from Military Familiy Resilience During COVID-19 - Family resilience is also a topic that my colleagues and I have discussed a great deal over the past few months in regards to the current pandemic. So, my interest was piqued when I recently ran across an article by Dr. Heather Prime and colleagues in American Psychologist focusing on how to encourage family resilience in the wake of COVID-19-related stressors. One of the first things I noticed was that the conceptual framework that they use is very similar to the one we describe when talking about military family resilience in our training events.

Added 23 December

Staff Perspective: Military Families Share Their Experiences During COVID-19 - Dr. Jenny Phillips shares information about the unique impacts of the pandemic on military families using information gathered directly from five different military families during the first wave of COVID-19.

Added 2 December

Staff Perspective: Military Familiy Resilience and COVID-19 - Resilience in military families is the norm. As the effects of the pandemic continue to be felt, and in many cases amplified, the need for all of us to adjust to changes, sometimes on a daily basis, is greater than ever before. Civilian families can benefit from the lessons learned from military families across the generations. Creating new traditions, staying connected with love ones through long separations, and major shifts in social networks are all skills military families learn early in military service.

Added 4 November

Staff Perspective: Alcohol Use and the COVID-19 Pandemic - The Dangers of Excessive Consumption - Research has established evidence of increased alcohol sales and consumption over the past 6-8 months. In this blog, we explore the increased risks to both health and sobriety associated with excessive alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Added 28 October

Staff Perspective: Alcohol Use and the COVID-19 Pandemic - While increased alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic has often been the focus of jokes and memes in social media, information about the magnitude and reasons behind these increases are not as amusing.

Added 30 September

Staff Perspective: Social Isolation and the Elderly During COVID-19 - Whether the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic influences suicide rates in older adults remains unknown. Nevertheless, experts suggest a convergence of risk factors for suicide, which may uniquely impact the elderly.

Added 29 September

Preparing for Telehealth Patient Checklist - A checklist to help patients prepare for and get the most out of their telehealth sessions.  This fillable form can be provided to patients prior to their telehealth appointment and updated as needed.

Added 16 September

Staff Perspective: COVID-19, Connectedness, and Suicide Prevention - September is National Suicide Prevention Month and one goal is to help provide information on suicide prevention programs and resources. Although it is important to focus on suicide prevention every day of every year, given the challenges of 2020, this year it may be even more important.

Added 9 September

Staff Perspective: The Intersection of the Coronavirus Pandemic, Racism, and Suicide Risk  - It has been a tough year for many people around the world as we struggle to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Within the United States, we have not only surpassed the 6 million mark of people infected with the virus, but our deaths from the virus are nearing 200,000. We are more than six months into a period of extended social distancing and quarantine, and most of us are feeling depleted. To add to this stress, we also have a second pandemic we are battling, the racism pandemic.

Added 26 August

CDP Presents: The Moral Cost of Responding to COVID-19 - Identifying and Addressing Moral Injury in Healthcare Personnel and First Responders - Given the current pandemic and concerns about moral distress experienced by individuals on the frontlines, CDP will convene a group of experts to discuss strategies for identifying and addressing moral injury. The goal is to bring leaders in the field together to share ideas and recommendations about how behavioral health providers and communities can support individuals at risk for experiencing distress from exposure to COVID-19-related ethical challenges.

Added 7 August

Peer-Reviewed Papers on Telepsychology from APA's Division 12: The Society of Clinical Psychology compiled a list of recent peer-reviewed papers on telepsychology organized by treatment area.

Added 29 July

Staff Perspective: Masks - To Wear or Not To Wear? - Anyone else feel like you are constantly navigating new life territory due to the COVID-19 pandemic? I do! At every turn, it seems there is a new question or decision, and it is draining my energy at record pace. Another big decision for all of us amidst this pandemic is whether to wear a mask in public or not.

Added 23 July

Staff Perspective: Can a Virus Lead to Stigma? - Feelings of fear and anxiety related to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can inadvertently lead to social stigma due to lack of knowledge or misinformation about how COVID-19 spreads, a need to blame someone, and fears related to the disease and death.

Added 16 July

Guest Perspective: Guilt, Shame, and Moral Injury from Events during the COVID-19 Pandemic - The pandemic has created numerous situations that can be the cause of guilt, shame, and moral injury. For many these feelings will be transient, but for some, they may be long-lasting, distressing, and require intervention.

Added 17 June

Staff Perspective: Moral Distress, Residue, and the Crescendo Effect - Understanding the Potential Impact of the Extended COVID-19 Crisis  - The fields of medicine and nursing have been looking at moral distress for a few decades now. While there is much debate about the specific definition of "moral distress," there is agreement that it is something different than compassion fatigue, burnout, and even moral injury.

Added 10 June

Staff Perspective: Learning to Live with Danger - Dr. Deb Nofziger discusses how her deployment experiences have influenced her views on living during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Added 8 June

National Center for PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/covid/index.asp

Added 5 June

Guest Perspective: Because We Care - Risk for Moral Injury During the COVID-19 Pandemic - In his blog, Dr. Bill Nash shares his conceptualization about moral injury and burnout in healthcare professionals who are currently confronting the invisible dangers presented by this crisis. By drawing parallels between the risks for moral injury in Service members and those in frontline human service workers, he raises awareness on this important topic and highlights implications from combat-related moral suffering that can be applied to the health care community. He makes insightful recommendations for how we can work together to address burnout in this at-risk group.

Added 29 May

Q&A from the Suddenly Telehealth Webinar presentation - This PDF containins several additional questions and answers that weren't able to be addressed during the original presentation of the "Suddenly Telehealth" webinar.

Added 27 May

Collecting Self-Report Assessment Data via Telehealth - A tip sheet on how to administer and review self-report measures via telehealth. Suggestions are provided whether assessment is being conducted via telephone or videoconferencing.

Added 15 May

Webinar: Suddenly Telehealth - How to Implement EBPs with Fidelity and Effectiveness - Due to the rapid spread of COVID-19, an unprecedented number of clinicians are scrambling to take their practice online. A particular concern for clinicians working with Service members is adapting EBPs for telehealth. In this webinar, CDP staff will provide practice advice for adapting EBPs for for PTSD, depression, and Sleep Problems for use in telehealth.

Added 14 May

Staff Perspective: COVID-19 and Self-Reintegration - Current social-distancing has limited ways we cope with both internal and external stressors. The less we are able to distract ourselves with the external world, the more time we have to listen to our own thoughts. How do we and our patients cope with personal demons when usual distractions are out of reach? What about those of us who are loving isolation because it has cut down on the external stressors?

Added 11 May

Resources for Military Couples - Supporting relationships during this time of pandemic and stay-at-home orders is especially important to individuals’ mental health. This page highlights resources focused on couples to help them navigate stressors and strengthen connections.

Added 8 May

Staff Perspective: The Challenges of COVID-19 on Military Families and the Resilience of Military Kids - As our soldiers rapidly respond to contain and combat COVID-19, military families are charged with the familiar mission of supporting our nations troops in the face of uncertainty.

Added 6 May

Staff Perspective: Telehealth and Couples Counseling - Considerations for Providers  - Delivering behavioral health services remotely is particularly relevant right now. This Staff Perspective column, by CDP's April Thompson, takes a look at considerations for presenting couples counseling via telehealth, including safey, managing conflict, the therapy process, and more.

Added 30 April

A Guide to Support the Well-Being of Healthcare Personnel During a Time of Crisis - CDP contributed to the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH)'s resource on helping healthcare personnel. This tool is designed for healthcare workers to quickly navigate to evidence-based information from USU partners, including the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, the Center for Deployment Psychology, and the Consortium for Health and Military Performance.

Staff Perspective: Telehealth and Couples Counseling - Considerations for Providers  - Delivering behavioral health services remotely is particularly relevant right now. This Staff Perspective column, by CDP's April Thompson, takes a look at considerations for presenting couples counseling via telehealth, including safey, managing conflict, the therapy process, and more.