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Parental Military Deployment and Children: What Have We Learned from More than a Decade of War?

Society of Clinical Psychology

A common saying in the military is that when one person joins the whole family serves. For many military families, geographic relocations, disrupted family routines, financial hardships, and fear of losing a loved one became a way of life. Effective support and intervention services for these two groups of children may in turn differ.

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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

Social Work Blog

1 Although PTSD has commonly been associated with the military and veteran populations, it affects people of all ages, communities, gender, and social economic background. This event is open to the public and intended for behavioral health/healthcare providers who treat military personnel, veterans, and their families.

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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

By investigating the underlying mechanism of action in our earlier work, we were able to create an efficient and efficacious intervention that we hope will improve treatment access and the subsequent health, well-being and quality of life of people exposed to trauma and in need of treatment services. Military Medicine, 178 , 939-944.

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Getting Better Outcomes from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatments

Society of Clinical Psychology

Our systematic review assessed high quality evidence for current interventions designed to augment first-line PTSD treatments (Metcalf et al., We clustered these 28 augmentation interventions into eight broad categories, based around the mechanism of augmentation, detailed in the table below. Possible therapeutic outcome.

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Roadmap toward a neuromodulatory treatment for PTSD and anxiety

Society of Clinical Psychology

Neuromodulation is rapidly emerging as a novel avenue for the treatment of psychiatric conditions, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a noninvasive neuromodulation technique, has been shown to be a versatile tool in the arsenal (Lefaucheur et al., Device-Based Modulation of Neurocircuits as a Therapeutic for Psychiatric Disorders.

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You Asked, We Answered; 12 Questions about Trauma-Informed-Care

Relias

Therapeutic interventions may be most effective when racial trauma is addressed and treated as the trauma that it is. Make medical/psychiatric referrals as needed. It’s more than about specific interventions with clients and isn’t simply about face-to-face interactions. How can organizations become trauma-informed?