Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 28 March 2024

By Shirl Kennedy  on 28.03.2024 12:42 pm

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:

  • Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement.
  • Impact of Early-Life Adversity on Cannabis Use: Exploring the Mediating and Moderating Effects of Chronic Pain.
  • Impulsivity and Psychiatric Diagnoses as Mediators of Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts Among Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injury.

Staff Perspective: Helping Patients Off Hypnotic Medications Using CBT-I

By Timothy Rogers  on 27.03.2024 2:14 pm

Providers often report having questions about whether to start CBT-I if a patient is on a sleep medication, or how to help a patient taper off sleep medications and obtain good treatment outcomes while providing cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I). In this blog, Dr. Rogers will summarize research findings and clinical recommendations pertaining to the use and tapering of hypnotic medications while providing CBT-I.

Research Update: 21 March 2024

By Shirl Kennedy  on 21.03.2024 5:13 pm

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Emotional reactivity linking assaultive trauma and risky behavior: Evidence of differences between cisgender women and men.
● Determining who military service members deem credible to discuss firearm safety for suicide prevention.
● Migraine Prevalence, Environmental Risk, and Comorbidities in Men and Women Veterans.

Research at CDP: Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Within PTSD Clusters and Moral Injury Subtypes

By Maegan Paxton Willing  on 20.03.2024 10:42 am

Recently, the CDP collaborated with colleagues within the VA Healthcare System, University of Rochester, and Louisiana State University to examine the role of difficulties with emotion regulation on military connected individuals with PTSD

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