Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 15 August 2019

By Shirl Kennedy  on 15.08.2019 12:29 pm

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● PTSD Research Quarterly -- PTSD and TBI Comorbidity
● A randomized controlled trial of public messaging to promote safe firearm storage among U.S. military veterans.
● Military Telehealth: A Model For Delivering Expertise To The Point Of Need In Austere And Operational Environments.
● Competent Cultural Telebehavioral Healthcare to Rural Diverse Populations: Administration, Evaluation, and Financing

Staff Perspective: Can Good People Do Bad Things?

By Sharon Birman  on 14.08.2019 9:35 am
Sharon Birman, Psy.D.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among Service members and Veterans receives a lot of well-deserved attention. That said, it was not until 1992, that the term Moral Injury was coined by Dr. Jonathan Shay to describe the devastating impacts of an event or experience that violates one’s personal ideals, ethics, moral expectations, conscience, or attachments. Since moral expectations are at the core of who we are as humans, moral injury describes a fracture to one’s deepest sense of being. The result of this moral violation can lead to guilt, existential crisis, and loss of trust (Jinkerson, 2016).  

CDP News: 9 August 2019

By Christopher Adams  on 09.08.2019 2:24 pm

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're still in the depths of summer, but we're already hard at work on lining up our schedule for the fall.

Research Update: 8 August 2019

By Shirl Kennedy  on 08.08.2019 5:21 pm
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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:
● The association of insomnia and sleep apnea with deployment and combat exposure in the entire population of US army soldiers from 1997 to 2011: a retrospective cohort investigation.
● The Veteran Wage Differential.
● Timing of evidence-based psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder initiation among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans in the Veterans Health Administration.

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