Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 1 June 2023

By Shirl Kennedy  on 01.06.2023 12:51 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:

● Reducing Opioid Use for Chronic Pain With a Group-Based Intervention: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
● Cannabis Use Disorder and Subsequent Risk of Psychotic and Nonpsychotic Unipolar Depression and Bipolar Disorder.
● Understanding a Time of High Risk for Suicide: Adversities Associated with Separation from Military Service among National Guard and Reserve Service Members.

Staff Perspective: Treating Our Adolescents in Uniform

By Andrea Israel  on 31.05.2023 9:19 am
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BLUF: If you work with our United States Service members, you may be treating more adolescents than you realize. Did you know that contemporary theories of human development consider adolescence to extend to about age 25? If we think of adolescence as extending to about age 25, adolescents comprise a large proportion of U.S. Active Duty and Selected Reserve service members.

Research Update: 25 May 2023

By Shirl Kennedy  on 25.05.2023 12:26 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:
  • Informing measurement of gender differences in suicide risk and resilience: A national study of United States military veterans
  • Military experiences, connection to military identity, and time since military discharge as predictors of United States veteran suicide risk
  • Estimated Rates of Incident and Persistent Chronic Pain Among US Adults, 2019-2020
  • Evaluation of a Psychoeducational Group to Expand Mobile Application Knowledge and Use in a Veteran Residential Treatment Program

Research Update: 18 May 2023

By Shirl Kennedy  on 18.05.2023 12:23 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:

  • Sleep deficiency, operational fatigue and the interplay of compromising factors: Analysis to aid in fatigue management
  • Associations among meaning in life, coping, and distress in trauma-exposed U.S. military veterans
  • An Application of the Confluence Model of Sexual Aggression Among Young Adult Male Soldiers
  • Families transition, too! Military families transition out of service: a scoping review of research from the Five Eyes nations

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