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Center for Deployment Psychology

Center for Deployment Psychology

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The Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) is an organization offering training for behavioral health professionals who provide mental health services unique to the experience of deployment in the United States Armed Forces for active-duty military service members, veterans and their families.[1][2] CDP is headquartered at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland, and is funded by the United States Department of Defense.[3]

Overview

Both military and non-military mental health providers are served, and CDP has placed deployment behavioral health psychologists at 11 military medical centers across the United States.[4] Each medical center has an established American Psychological Association accredited psychology internship program. In addition, CDP offers workshops for college and university mental health professionals to help campus personnel understand and treat the specific mental health needs of the military and veteran student.

Training

Training is offered in the following areas: the deployment experience, trauma, mental health care of the seriously wounded, and the impact of deployment on families.[5][6] The Center provides workshops on treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), insomnia, chronic pain, depression, suicide, and substance abuse.[7][8] For non-military behavioral health professionals, CDP conducts workshops on military culture.[9]

The training emphasizes empirically supported treatments known as evidence based psychotherapies. Training includes workshops in Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD, Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for insomnia.[10] Under the leadership of Executive Director David Riggs,[11] the Center for Deployment Psychology has trained more than 20,000 behavioral health professionals since its formation in 2006.

References

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    Adler, A.B., Bliese, P.D., Castro C.A. (2011) Deployment Psychology: Evidence-Based Strategies to Promote Mental Health in the Military
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    Fantone, D. M. (2011) Defense Centers of Excellence: Limited Budget and Performance Information on the Center for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, p. 22
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    "Department of Defense : Center for Deployment Psychology" (PDF). Apa.org. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
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    Department of Defense Appropriations for 2008: Hearings Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, p. 369
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    Moore, B.A., Penk W.E. (2011) Treating PTSD in Military Personnel: A Clinical Handbook p. 345
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    "The Center for Deployment Psychology". TexVet. 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
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    Simon R.I., Hales, R.E., (2012) The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management, 2nd ed.
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    Domenici P., Best S., Armstrong K.,(2013) Courage After Fire for Parents of Service Members: Strategies for Coping When Your Son or Daughter Returns from Deployment
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    "The Center for Deployment Psychology: Military Culture". Retrieved 2013-10-17.
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    Roberts, C.A. (2011) Coping with posttraumatic stress disorder: A Guide for Families p.55
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    Sharon Morgillo Freeman, PhD, MSN(Editor), Bret A Moore, Psy.D. (Editor), Arthur Freeman, Ed.D, ABPP (Editor) (2009) Living and Surviving in Harm's Way: A Psychological Treatment Handbook for Pre- and Post-Deployment of Military Personnel, p. xxvii and p. 429
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