Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 10 August 2023

By Shirl Kennedy  on 10.08.2023 12:49 pm
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The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Leadership perspectives on facilitators and barriers to sustaining evidence-based prevention interventions in the United States Military.
● Age differences in long-term mortality among male nonveterans, noncombat veterans, and combat veterans.
● Associations between DSM-5 posttraumatic stress disorder Criterion E2 endorsement and selected self-destructive behaviors in recent-era veterans: A focus on disordered eating.

Staff Perspective: Moral Injury Related to the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan and a Large-Scale VA Study

By Paula Domenici  on 09.08.2023 11:07 am

A few years ago, I had the privilege of treating an Afghan interpreter who had served alongside U.S. soldiers for several years during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF); he had witnessed and directly experienced a multitude of traumas. When the U.S. decided to fully withdraw from Afghanistan in August 2021, my patient became incredibly anxious about the safety of interpreters and their families still in that country, as well as his own safety in the U.S. 

By the Numbers: 8 August 2023

By Shirl Kennedy  on 07.08.2023 3:02 pm

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The number of times the "Department of the Air Force has moved military families...over the past two years to help them escape racist or anti-LGTBQ+ harassment," according to an article published June 20 in the online publication Defense One.

“When I'm forced to move families from installations, because their school will do nothing when their LGBT kid is being bullied—that worries me, because that's distracting from the mission, that's detracting from our readiness,” Alex Wagner, assistant Air Force secretary for manpower and reserve affairs, said earlier this month.

“If servicemembers are thinking and concerned about the experience their kids are having, they're not going to be focused on their jobs. They're not gonna be focused on their mission,” Wagner said.

Research Update: 3 August 2023

By Shirl Kennedy  on 03.08.2023 12:32 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:
● Military to civilian cultural transition experiences of retired military personnel: A systematic meta synthesis.
● Rural-Urban Disparities in Video Telehealth Use During Rapid Mental Health Care Virtualization Among American Indian/Alaska Native Veterans.
● Substances Detected During Coroner Postmortem Toxicology Analyses in Poisoning- and Nonpoisoning-Related Suicides.

Staff Perspective: The Rate of Mental Health Diagnoses Among Deployed Soldiers

By Maegan Willing  on 31.07.2023 4:21 pm

We often hear about the high rates of mental health disorders among service members; however, these rates typically reflect only those diagnoses received or the disorders treated while in-garrison. The mental health burden experienced while in-theater has been frequently underreported. This represents an important gap in our understanding of the behavioral health care needs of service members while deployed as well as the training needs of deploying providers.

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