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275,000 to more than one million
The number of "men and women who are caring or have previously cared for wounded, ill, or injured service members and veterans," according to a new study by the RAND Corporation, Military Caregivers: Cornerstones of Support for Our Nation's Wounded, Ill, and Injured Veterans. That seems like a wide numerical range but, RAND says, nobody know for sure exactly how many military caregivers there are, and the actual number may be higher.
The number of "men and women who are caring or have previously cared for wounded, ill, or injured service members and veterans," according to a new study by the RAND Corporation, Military Caregivers: Cornerstones of Support for Our Nation's Wounded, Ill, and Injured Veterans. That seems like a wide numerical range but, RAND says, nobody know for sure exactly how many military caregivers there are, and the actual number may be higher.
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It's Friday and that means it's time for another edition of CDP News, where we take a quick look at the latest happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology. First up, today our University Counseling Center Core Competency program visits North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, NC. CDP Executive Director, Dr. David Riggs will be delivering this presentation. The next UC4 program will be held on March 18th, when the program heads to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
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The CDP's weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
• Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans: National Findings from VA Residential Treatment Programs.
• Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for the Treatment of Headache Pain: A Pilot Study.
• Factors Associated With Shift Work Disorder in Nurses Working With Rapid-Rotation Schedules in Japan: The Nurses' Sleep Health Project.
• Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans: National Findings from VA Residential Treatment Programs.
• Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for the Treatment of Headache Pain: A Pilot Study.
• Factors Associated With Shift Work Disorder in Nurses Working With Rapid-Rotation Schedules in Japan: The Nurses' Sleep Health Project.
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ACCOUNTABILITY! ACCOUNTABILITY! That is the mantra of our current era of fiscal challenges. It is noteworthy then to ask how will viable programs continue to thrive with diminished resources? An effective strategic tool to guide this decision process is program evaluation. The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO, Designing Evaluations, 2012) defines program evaluation as “A systematic study using research methods to collect and analyze data to assess how well a program is working and why.”
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28 percent
This represents the increase in "the cumulative amount of time that a soldier has spent deployed," from December 2008 to December 2011, according to a new report by the RAND Corporation, Measuring Army Deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. The report is rich with statistics. Some key findings:
• The Army has provided the bulk of U.S. troops to Iraq and Afghanistan: over 1.5 million troop-years as of December 2011, and 54 percent of all active component troop-year deployments within the area of operations.
• Since 2008, the cumulative amount of time that a soldier has spent deployed has increased (on average) by 28 percent. In contrast, the percentage "not yet deployed" and the Army's unutilized capacity to deploy have both decreased.
This represents the increase in "the cumulative amount of time that a soldier has spent deployed," from December 2008 to December 2011, according to a new report by the RAND Corporation, Measuring Army Deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. The report is rich with statistics. Some key findings:
• The Army has provided the bulk of U.S. troops to Iraq and Afghanistan: over 1.5 million troop-years as of December 2011, and 54 percent of all active component troop-year deployments within the area of operations.
• Since 2008, the cumulative amount of time that a soldier has spent deployed has increased (on average) by 28 percent. In contrast, the percentage "not yet deployed" and the Army's unutilized capacity to deploy have both decreased.
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Welcome to March and this week’s edition of CDP News. As always, we’ll be taking a brief look at the happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology. First up, today is the final day to register in advance for our Southwest Regional Civilian Training to be held in Phoenix March 11-15. Our week-long training events are a great opportunity to learn about a wide variety of deployment related issues directly from CDP’s very own subject matter experts.
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The CDP's weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
• Physiological Employment Standards III: physiological challenges and consequences encountered during international military deployments.
• Risk for Addiction-Related Disorders Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in a Large Cohort of Active-Duty U.S. Airmen.
• Neural Network Modulation by Trauma as a Marker of Resilience: Differences Between Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Resilient Controls.
• Physiological Employment Standards III: physiological challenges and consequences encountered during international military deployments.
• Risk for Addiction-Related Disorders Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in a Large Cohort of Active-Duty U.S. Airmen.
• Neural Network Modulation by Trauma as a Marker of Resilience: Differences Between Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Resilient Controls.
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Want to hear some good news? On Feb. 6, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) hosted an educational panel, the first of its kind, focusing on the mental health of deployed, gay and lesbian service members. Our own, Ken Furman, Ph.D. organized the panel as part of the Center for Deployment Psychology’s (CDP) eight-day course called "Topics in Deployment Psychology", a course designed to train military and civilian mental health providers to provide evidence based mental health care to military service members and their families.
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19
The number of "potential" suicides among active duty soldiers in January 2013, according to data just released by the Army. The Department of Defense (DoD) news release said two of those suicides had been confirmed and the other 17 were still under investigation.
According to a DoD news release at the beginning of this month, among Army members for the calendar year 2012, there were 182 "potential active duty suicides," with 130 confirmed as suicides and 52 still under investigation.
The number of "potential" suicides among active duty soldiers in January 2013, according to data just released by the Army. The Department of Defense (DoD) news release said two of those suicides had been confirmed and the other 17 were still under investigation.
According to a DoD news release at the beginning of this month, among Army members for the calendar year 2012, there were 182 "potential active duty suicides," with 130 confirmed as suicides and 52 still under investigation.
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Welcome to this week's CDP News update. We recently received a nice bit of attention for a new panel we implemented in the last iteration of our "Topics in Deployment Psychology" course. There's a great article here talking about the panel which focused on "the mental well-being of deployed gay and lesbian service members". The four-member panel talked about a variety of LBGT issues related to the military. It's a very important topic and we were pleased to be able to incorporate a discussion on it into our training. It was quite well received and we look forward to hosting it again in future iterations.
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The CDP's weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
• Child and Adolescent Exposure to Trauma: Comparative Effectiveness of Interventions
Addressing Trauma Other Than Maltreatment or Family Violence (AHRQ)
• Sleep Trends of Active‐Duty Service Members Referred for Psychiatric Care: A Descriptive Study.
• Sleep and Resilience: A Longitudinal 37‐Year Follow‐up Study of Vietnam Repatriated Prisoners
of War.
• Warriors in the Academy: Veterans Transition from the Military to Higher Education.
• Experimental Exposure Therapy for Posttraumatic Nightmares.
• Child and Adolescent Exposure to Trauma: Comparative Effectiveness of Interventions
Addressing Trauma Other Than Maltreatment or Family Violence (AHRQ)
• Sleep Trends of Active‐Duty Service Members Referred for Psychiatric Care: A Descriptive Study.
• Sleep and Resilience: A Longitudinal 37‐Year Follow‐up Study of Vietnam Repatriated Prisoners
of War.
• Warriors in the Academy: Veterans Transition from the Military to Higher Education.
• Experimental Exposure Therapy for Posttraumatic Nightmares.
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Here at the Center for Deployment Psychology, our website is constantly growing and changing. In order to further our mission of training behavioral health providers to treat deployment-related psychological issues, we're continually adding more content to help those providers. To help you utilize that content, I'd like to take a few moments to showcase a few sections of the site and their offerings. There's much more than I can cover in this brief summary, but I wanted to provide a broad overview of the sections we have available.
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Hello and welcome to the end of another week, but before we head off into the long weekend it's time to recap the news of the past week and look ahead to the future in this week's CDP News. Our biggest event of the week is the launching of our 2013 South Regional 1-Week Training event. We're headed to the Oklahoma City metro area, specifically Norman, OK, from April 8 through 12. Seating is limited for this event, so if you're interested be sure and sign up quick. For more details or to register, please visit the event's page here. On the same subject, our Southwest Regional 1-week Training held in Phoenix, AZ from March 11 through 15 is still open for registration as well. For more information on that event, just click here. Both of these events are great opportunities for civilian behavioral health providers to receive top-notch training from the CDP's staff of subject matter experts. For those of you interested in attending one of our sessions, but are unable to travel to the west, stay tuned as we will be announcing more events in the coming weeks!
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The CDP's weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
• Mental Disorders Among OEF/OIF Veterans Using VA Health Care: Facts and Figures (CRS)
• Veterans and Homelessness (CRS)
• Screening for Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Primary Care: A Systematic Review (VA)
• Ethics for the Weekends: The Case of Reservists.
• Impact of impaired sleep on the development of PTSD symptoms in combat veterans: a
prospective longitudinal cohort study.
• Mental Disorders Among OEF/OIF Veterans Using VA Health Care: Facts and Figures (CRS)
• Veterans and Homelessness (CRS)
• Screening for Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Primary Care: A Systematic Review (VA)
• Ethics for the Weekends: The Case of Reservists.
• Impact of impaired sleep on the development of PTSD symptoms in combat veterans: a
prospective longitudinal cohort study.
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For providers steeped in the use of evidence-based psychotherapies, it is important to keep in mind the relief from suicidal ideation that can be achieved through the use of combination therapy (psychotherapy plus pharmacotherapy). For patients experiencing suicidal ideation with intent, it is especially critical to alert patients to the option of psychiatric medications, and to support their decision to pursue pharmacotherapy in conjunction with psychotherapy. A subset of patients afflicted by mental health issues do not “buy in” to psychotherapy and may be open to pursuing a trial of psychotropic medication.
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29%
"Prevalence of PTSD Among OEF/OIF Veterans Using VA Health Care, FY2002–FY2012," according to a recently released report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Mental Disorders Among OEF/OIF Veterans Using VA Health Care: Facts and Figures.
"Prevalence of PTSD Among OEF/OIF Veterans Using VA Health Care, FY2002–FY2012," according to a recently released report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Mental Disorders Among OEF/OIF Veterans Using VA Health Care: Facts and Figures.
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Happy Friday and welcome to this week's CDP News Update, where we take a quick look at recent and upcoming happenings in and around the CDP. First up, we've spent this week running our "Topics in Deployment Psychology" Training in Bethesda. The first few days have gone well and hopefully the three days next week will continue in the same fashion.
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The CDP's weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
• Suicide Data Report, 2012 (VA)
• Sleep Disorders and Associated Medical Comorbidities in Active Duty Military Personnel.
• The relation of mild traumatic brain injury to chronic lapses of attention.
• The Impact of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate in a Veteran
Population.
• Suicide Data Report, 2012 (VA)
• Sleep Disorders and Associated Medical Comorbidities in Active Duty Military Personnel.
• The relation of mild traumatic brain injury to chronic lapses of attention.
• The Impact of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate in a Veteran
Population.
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I recently learned about updates to the Naval Center for Combat & Operational Stress Control’s Psychological Health Pathways (PHP) Initiative in a conversation with the center’s director, CAPT Scott L. Johnston. Here is an interview with CAPT Johnston to tell us more about the role of PHP and how it will help our Sailors and Marines access and receive mental health care.
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50,634
The number of servicemembers evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan for medical reasons from January 2003 through December 2011, according to data from the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, included in a January 2013 report from the Government Accountability Office -- Military Personnel: DOD Has Taken Steps to Meet the Health Needs of Deployed Servicewomen, but Actions Are Needed to Enhance Care for Sexual Assault Victims.
The number of servicemembers evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan for medical reasons from January 2003 through December 2011, according to data from the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, included in a January 2013 report from the Government Accountability Office -- Military Personnel: DOD Has Taken Steps to Meet the Health Needs of Deployed Servicewomen, but Actions Are Needed to Enhance Care for Sexual Assault Victims.
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