The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Body Dissatisfaction Is Central to Military Eating Disorder Pathology: A Multi- Time-Point Network Analysis.
● Cognitive Behavioral Therapy App, Resting State Functional Connectivity, and Anxiety.
● Psychopathology and Gaming Disorder in Adolescents.
Sleep isn’t just a personal health issue for service members; it’s a mission-critical factor that affects unit cohesion, operational performance, and overall force readiness. Yet for years, military culture sent a different message. Pushing through exhaustion was worn like a badge of honor, and phrases like “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” were all too common. Sleep deprivation was seen as a sign of toughness rather than a threat to mission success. Thankfully, the conversation is shifting.
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Factor by which US children are "more likely to die of suicide with a gun at home than in a shooting at school," according to recent commentary in the journal JAMA Network Open -- Safe Gun Storage and Youth Suicide—The Sum of Their Regrets.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Collective Impact: A Practitioner-Scholar Framework for Serving Military- Connected Youth.
● Benefits of the “worst-case scenario”: a multi-level examination of the effects of confronting the feared outcome during imagery-based exposure.
● Addictive Screen Use Trajectories and Suicidal Behaviors, Suicidal Ideation, and Mental Health in US Youths.
Most of us have struggled with getting enough sleep at some point, but when you compare sleep habits between civilians and service members, the difference is striking. While about a third of the general population reports not getting the recommended seven hours of sleep per night, the number jumps to more than 85% among service members.