The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● The prevalence of moral distress and moral injury among U.S. veterans.
● Rates of Sleep Disorders Based on a Structured Clinical Interview in US Active- Duty Military Personnel with Acute Suicide Risk.
● Mental Health Antecedents and Correlates of 2 Distinct Developmental Pathways to Suicidal Ideation.
Over the last year, I’ve been involved in a research project that looks at the effect of regular consultation on a therapists skill in delivering treatments like Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I). Through the course of this project I’ve been thinking a lot about how we as therapists can improve in our craft over time. There is value in general experience, but experience alone is often insufficient to really improve.
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The number of times the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline was contacted between July 1, 2022, and December 31, 2024. 1,792,123 contacts (11.0%) (were) rerouted to the Veterans Crisis Line.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Posttraumatic growth among mental health officers who treat soldiers with nonsuicidal self-harm/suicidal behavior: The role of cognitive and personality characteristics.
● Sex Differences in Life Course Suicide Rates by State Firearm Policy Environment.
● Driving cognitive change: a guide to behavioural experiments in cognitive therapy for anxiety disorders and PTSD.
Before we dive into the world of trendy self-help books and motivational countdowns, let’s pay our respects to the ancestors of behavioral science. Thorndike (1911) showed us that actions followed by rewards get repeated, basically, the first “treat-for-trick” system. Hull (1943) tried to jazz things up with drive theory and equations, but it didn’t exactly go viral. Then B.F. Skinner (1953) stepped in and said, “Forget the feelings, just watch what happens after the behavior,” and psychology, education and advertising have never been the same.