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News Items – August 11, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Psychology Today. Being a teen is hard enough, but with the current adolescent mental health crisis , parents should know about the psychosocial challenges — from stress to suicidal thoughts — teens face nowadays. Lynn Hagan is a member: Be Remarkable: Lynn Hagan helps disaster relief volunteers, military members.

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

Society of Clinical Psychology

Alfano & Simon Lau, Department of Psychology, University of Houston. 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. Chandra et al.,

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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

She is an expert on psychosocial interventions for traumatic stress disorders and has a specific interest in efficient treatment approaches for PTSD. Implementation Outcomes of Military Provider Training in Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Military Medicine, 178 , 939-944.

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