CDP News: Sept. 4, 2015
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. We’ve just about made it to the unofficial end of summer, but we’ve still got lots of great events coming up! Let’s get to it.
This week we presented our monthly CDP Presents webinar. To help highlight the fact that September is National Suicide Prevention Month, Dr. Sharon Birman presented a webinar entitled “Understanding Suicidal Behavior Associated with Military Service.” This hour-and-a-half webinar touched on a variety of aspects of military suicide. If you weren’t able to attend the live version, next week we will be posting a recording for on-demand viewing. We recently posted the recording of last week’s military culture webinar by Dr. Bill Brim and Dr. Patricia Watson. Our next webinar, “Behavioral Health Concerns in Military Connected Patients: An Overview for Civilian Primary Care Providers,” will be held on 14 October. Those who attend and complete a post-seminar survey will be eligible to receive one free CE unit as well.
If you’d like a much more in-depth instruction on military suicide prevention, we will be holding a two-day course online via Second Life 9-10 September. Registration for the course is $30 and it comes with 13.5 CEs. For additional details or to register for the course, please click here. We’ve also opened up registration for our online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression (CBT-D) via Second Life on 15-16 October. It’s a new course that we’re very excited to be able to offer online for the first time.
If you’re interested in learning more about military culture and would like the opportunity to gain some free CEUs, we invite you to take the four-module Military Culture: Core Competencies for Healthcare Professionals. This self-paced online course is designed to help providers gain an understanding of the importance of and breadth of military culture. Each module in the course is eligible for two CEU credits upon completion of the final exam, for a total of eight possible credits.
Our next scheduled 1-Week event will be held in the Albany, NY-metro area 26-30 October. We will be posting additional details and registration information within the next few weeks. If you’d like to be emailed when registration for this and other upcoming Regional 1-Week Civilian Training opportunities, please complete the form here.
Finally, over in the CDP Blog, this week’s Staff Perspective entry was by Laura Copland and is entitled, “Recognition of Moral Injury.” In it, she examines the concept of moral injury, which is defined as “psychological pain that results from a transgression of deeply-held moral beliefs”. It’s an important topic that is, thankfully, getting more and more attention. Also, don’t forget to take a few minutes to read this week’s Research Update on the CDP’s Blog. It’s got all the latest news, articles and plenty of useful links related to deployment psychology.
That’s it for this time around. We hope everyone has a great holiday weekend! See you next week!
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. We’ve just about made it to the unofficial end of summer, but we’ve still got lots of great events coming up! Let’s get to it.
This week we presented our monthly CDP Presents webinar. To help highlight the fact that September is National Suicide Prevention Month, Dr. Sharon Birman presented a webinar entitled “Understanding Suicidal Behavior Associated with Military Service.” This hour-and-a-half webinar touched on a variety of aspects of military suicide. If you weren’t able to attend the live version, next week we will be posting a recording for on-demand viewing. We recently posted the recording of last week’s military culture webinar by Dr. Bill Brim and Dr. Patricia Watson. Our next webinar, “Behavioral Health Concerns in Military Connected Patients: An Overview for Civilian Primary Care Providers,” will be held on 14 October. Those who attend and complete a post-seminar survey will be eligible to receive one free CE unit as well.
If you’d like a much more in-depth instruction on military suicide prevention, we will be holding a two-day course online via Second Life 9-10 September. Registration for the course is $30 and it comes with 13.5 CEs. For additional details or to register for the course, please click here. We’ve also opened up registration for our online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression (CBT-D) via Second Life on 15-16 October. It’s a new course that we’re very excited to be able to offer online for the first time.
If you’re interested in learning more about military culture and would like the opportunity to gain some free CEUs, we invite you to take the four-module Military Culture: Core Competencies for Healthcare Professionals. This self-paced online course is designed to help providers gain an understanding of the importance of and breadth of military culture. Each module in the course is eligible for two CEU credits upon completion of the final exam, for a total of eight possible credits.
Our next scheduled 1-Week event will be held in the Albany, NY-metro area 26-30 October. We will be posting additional details and registration information within the next few weeks. If you’d like to be emailed when registration for this and other upcoming Regional 1-Week Civilian Training opportunities, please complete the form here.
Finally, over in the CDP Blog, this week’s Staff Perspective entry was by Laura Copland and is entitled, “Recognition of Moral Injury.” In it, she examines the concept of moral injury, which is defined as “psychological pain that results from a transgression of deeply-held moral beliefs”. It’s an important topic that is, thankfully, getting more and more attention. Also, don’t forget to take a few minutes to read this week’s Research Update on the CDP’s Blog. It’s got all the latest news, articles and plenty of useful links related to deployment psychology.
That’s it for this time around. We hope everyone has a great holiday weekend! See you next week!