Deployment Psychology Blog

CDP News: 11 October 2019

Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. October is going by quick and keeping everyone here busy!

Research Update: 10 October 2019

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:

● Communicating With Leadership: Behavioral Health and HIPAA in the Field.
● Longitudinal Associations between Sleep, Intrusive Thoughts, and Alcohol Problems Among Veterans.
● An Attempt to Identify Reproducible High-Density EEG Markers of PTSD during Sleep.
● Cortical hyperarousal in NREM sleep normalizes from pre- to post- REM periods in individuals with frequent nightmares.

Staff Perspective: Counting the Previously Uncounted - Military Spouses and Suicide

April Thompson, LCSW

The Department of Defense’s Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness recently released an inaugural Annual Suicide Report (ASR). Along with data regarding suicides among Active Component, Guard and Reserve Service members, it also included the first ever number of suicide deaths among military spouses and dependents. According to the ASR, there were 186 reported military family member suicide deaths in CY17.

Research Update: 3 October 2019

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:

● Clinical depression in untreated obstructive sleep apnea: examining predictors and a meta-analysis of prevalence rates.
● Fatal and Non-fatal Self-Injury in the USA: Critical Review of Current Trends and Innovations in Prevention.
● Clinical Efficacy of Ketamine for Treatment-resistant Depression.

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