Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 15 February 2024

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Teaching Military/Veteran Cultural Competence for Working with Veterans and Military Families: Effects on Student Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, Comfort, and Behavioral Intentions.
● Officer-Involved Killings of Unarmed Black People and Racial Disparities in Sleep Health.
● Three-Item Dimensions of Anger Reactions Scale.

Practically Speaking: Behind the Episode EBP Confessionals Part 2 - Listeners’ Confessions

Dr. Jenna Ermold

It’s hard to believe that we have officially wrapped up our fourth season of Practical for Your Practice and I have to admit, this season feels a little extra special because it reinforced (over and over again) how NOT alone I am when it comes to the art of being a perfectly imperfect EBP provider. In eleven episodes and across topics from insomnia treatment, to Written Exposure Therapy, to implementing Unified Protocol groups, to suicide postvention, our brave guests met the vulnerability challenge and offered up their tales of imperfection and how they recovered from clinical missteps. And maybe even more important, how they grew as a provider by facing the tough situations that didn’t go by the book… or manual as it were.
Listen to the full episode here: EBP Confessionals Part 2 - Listeners Confessions.

Research Update: 8 February 2024

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include: 
● Availability of Mental Telehealth Services in the US.
● Cumulative trauma load and timing of trauma prior to military deployment differentially influences inhibitory control processing across deployment.
● Women Veterans’ perspectives, experiences, and preferences for firearm lethal means counseling discussions.

By The Numbers: 5 February 2024

7%

The percentage of "sexual and/or gender diverse (SGD)" adolescents who "may have at least one parent currently or previously serving in the US military, an estimated 133,000 youth nationwide," according to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry -- Youth With Sexual or Gender-Diverse Identities and Military Connection: Recommendations to Optimize Clinical Care.

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