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.
[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.
[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.