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. June is wrapping up already, but we’ve got plenty on the schedule.
The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Differential Effects of an Evolutionary-Based EMDR Therapy on Depression and Anxiety Symptoms: A Case Series Study.
● Dissociative symptoms mediate the relation between PTSD symptoms and functional impairment in a sample of military members, veterans, and first responders with PTSD.
● Posttraumatic Cognitions and Suicidal Ideation Among Veterans Receiving PTSD Treatment.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is one of the gold-standard treatments available to adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and remains a first-line recommended treatment in the latest VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of PTSD and Acute Stress Disorder (DVA & DoD, 2017). CPT is a robust and flexible treatment in that it can be delivered with or without a written trauma account, in person or via tele-health, and individually or in group format. Dozens of randomized control trials and effectiveness trials demonstrate that CPT is one of the most effective treatments for PTSD in both civilian and military-connected populations.
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The number of counties among 3,142 in the U.S. in which no military Veterans live, according to a Military Times article about a new study by the Purdue Military Families Research Institute (MFRI) and the Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) -- Measuring Communities: The State of Military and Veteran Families in the United States.
The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Associations of Time-Related Deployment Variables With Risk of Suicide Attempt Among Soldiers: Results From the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS).
● The role of personal practice in therapist skill development: a model to guide therapists, educators, supervisors and researchers.
● The effects of clinical supervision on supervisees and patients in cognitive behavioral therapy: a systematic review.