The Center for Deployment Psychology
The Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) trains military and civilian behavioral health professionals to provide high-quality, culturally-sensitive, evidence-based behavioral health services to military personnel, veterans and their families.
To date, there have been over 2.2 million deployments in support of the global war on terrorism and overseas contingency operations. To better fulfill the unmet deployment-related behavioral health needs of service members and their families, CDP, an innovative Department of Defense psychology training consortium, was established in 2006.
CDP is designed in a "hub-and-spoke" framework with the headquarters at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland and satellite sites at each of the eleven military treatment facilities that house established American Psychological Association (APA)-accredited psychology internship programs.