CDP News: Oct. 24, 2014
Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. It was a busy week, as we prepared for several events that we’ve got coming up. Here’s a look at just a few of the things we’ve got cooking.
Next week we’ll be holding another iteration of our “Topics in Military and Deployment Psychology” course. This five-day training event brings together uniformed behavioral health providers from all branches of the military to the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. Over the course of the week, instructors from CDP, as well as distinguished guest lecturers, will instruct attendees on a wide variety of subjects related to military behavioral health and deployment psychology. For more information on this course, please visit the program’s page here.
On Thursday and Friday, we held our last two “open houses” in Adobe Connect to get participants ready for the online Prolonged Exposure Training (PE) via Adobe Connect we’re holding next Tuesday and Wednesday. If you weren’t able to register for this training, but are interested in attending, keep a close eye on our training calendar. In the next few weeks, we may be opening up registration for a limited number of slots in our online PE training event in December.
If you’re looking for some face-to-face training in December, consider our Southeast Regional Civilian 1-Week Training event. The event will be held 8-12 December in Miami, FL. We’re offering two educational tracks to choose from, one focusing on PTSD and one on overall health psychology. For more information about the training or to register, head over to the 1-Week Training section of our website.
This week we also released a brand new feature on our website, the PE Metaphor Bank. Metaphors are frequently used in Prolonged Exposure Therapy to explain the concepts involved. The concepts of exposure and habituation can feel unnatural and counter-intuitive to many people. Metaphors can be a useful tool to help frame these and other concepts for patients.
For more about the use of metaphors and the PE Metaphor Bank tool, check out this week’s blog entry by Dr. Kevin Holloway. In it, he further explores the rationale behind the use of metaphors in PE. Also, don’t forget to read this week’s Research Update. It’s packed with the latest in news, journal articles and useful links from all around the Web.
That’s it for this time around. Enjoy the weekend everyone! We’ll see you back here next week for a new entry in the By the Numbers column.
Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. It was a busy week, as we prepared for several events that we’ve got coming up. Here’s a look at just a few of the things we’ve got cooking.
Next week we’ll be holding another iteration of our “Topics in Military and Deployment Psychology” course. This five-day training event brings together uniformed behavioral health providers from all branches of the military to the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. Over the course of the week, instructors from CDP, as well as distinguished guest lecturers, will instruct attendees on a wide variety of subjects related to military behavioral health and deployment psychology. For more information on this course, please visit the program’s page here.
On Thursday and Friday, we held our last two “open houses” in Adobe Connect to get participants ready for the online Prolonged Exposure Training (PE) via Adobe Connect we’re holding next Tuesday and Wednesday. If you weren’t able to register for this training, but are interested in attending, keep a close eye on our training calendar. In the next few weeks, we may be opening up registration for a limited number of slots in our online PE training event in December.
If you’re looking for some face-to-face training in December, consider our Southeast Regional Civilian 1-Week Training event. The event will be held 8-12 December in Miami, FL. We’re offering two educational tracks to choose from, one focusing on PTSD and one on overall health psychology. For more information about the training or to register, head over to the 1-Week Training section of our website.
This week we also released a brand new feature on our website, the PE Metaphor Bank. Metaphors are frequently used in Prolonged Exposure Therapy to explain the concepts involved. The concepts of exposure and habituation can feel unnatural and counter-intuitive to many people. Metaphors can be a useful tool to help frame these and other concepts for patients.
For more about the use of metaphors and the PE Metaphor Bank tool, check out this week’s blog entry by Dr. Kevin Holloway. In it, he further explores the rationale behind the use of metaphors in PE. Also, don’t forget to read this week’s Research Update. It’s packed with the latest in news, journal articles and useful links from all around the Web.
That’s it for this time around. Enjoy the weekend everyone! We’ll see you back here next week for a new entry in the By the Numbers column.