17.2%
The percentage of transgender Service members who have experienced military sexual assault (MSA), according to a recent article in the Journal of Traumatic Stress -- Military Sexual Assault in Transgender Veterans: Results From a Nationwide Survey.
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. May is just flying by and we’ve got lots to talk about.
The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Psychological Services -- Special Issue -- Psychosocial Approaches to Improving the Military-to-Civilian Transition Process
● Clinician's Trauma Update Online (CTU-Online)
● Association of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury With and Without Loss of Consciousness With Dementia in US Military Veterans.
Understanding military culture and the ways military service and deployments impact couples is critical when providing counseling to military-connected clients. The Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences offers webinars which are specially designed to support clinicians who provide couples counseling to this population. This week we’re wrapping up our initial sessions of the 2018 Couples Webinar Series. On Thursday, we’ll be presenting all three sessions over the course of the day, starting at 10 a.m. Eastern.
9%
The percentage of U.S. businesses in which a Veteran is the majority owner, according to a recent article in the journal Military Medicine -- American Military Veteran Entrepreneurs: A Comprehensive Profile of Demographic, Service History, and Psychosocial Characteristics.