[tips] US Armed Forces planning to use Training in Positive Psychology to offset PSTD
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/health/18psych.html?em Thought this article reveals a relatively enlightened perspective in some in our armed forces. Joan jwarm...@oakton.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] US Armed Forces planning to use Training in Positive Psychology to offset PSTD
Hi It appears to me that important evaluative steps are being ignored or inadequately dealt with in this proposed program. They've already decided that millions will receive the training when there is limited reason to believe the program will be effective, unless one thinks it is valid to generalize from middle and high school students to soldiers in wartime. I use the DEOMI video in my culture class (it's about the military's equal opportunity program) and again wonder about the strength of the evidence for this approach to changing race-related attitudes and behaviors. It is not that they have ignored evidence, just they have looked for it with weak (i.e., non-experimental) methods. Ironically, with so many thousands to expose to programs, it would be easy to use random selection to set up true evaluations for these programs. Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca >>> "Joan Warmbold" 18-Aug-09 4:28:06 PM >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/health/18psych.html?em Thought this article reveals a relatively enlightened perspective in some in our armed forces. Joan jwarm...@oakton.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] US Armed Forces planning to use Training in Positive Psychology to offset PSTD
And of course, it's an attempt to fudge the real problem -- multiple tours of combat duty. If we're going to fight two wars, we need a much larger army to spread the load. In other words, a draft. On Aug 18, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Jim Clark wrote: Hi It appears to me that important evaluative steps are being ignored or inadequately dealt with in this proposed program. They've already decided that millions will receive the training when there is limited reason to believe the program will be effective, unless one thinks it is valid to generalize from middle and high school students to soldiers in wartime. I use the DEOMI video in my culture class (it's about the military's equal opportunity program) and again wonder about the strength of the evidence for this approach to changing race-related attitudes and behaviors. It is not that they have ignored evidence, just they have looked for it with weak (i.e., non-experimental) methods. Ironically, with so many thousands to expose to programs, it would be easy to use random selection to set up true evaluations for these programs. Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca "Joan Warmbold" 18-Aug-09 4:28:06 PM >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/health/18psych.html?em Thought this article reveals a relatively enlightened perspective in some in our armed forces. Joan jwarm...@oakton.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) Paul Brandon 10 Crown Hill Lane Mankato, MN 56001 pkbra...@hickorytech.net --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
