1,320 - 6,630
The estimated number of transgender active duty Service members, according to a recently published report by the RAND Corporation -- Assessing the Implications of Allowing Transgender Personnel to Serve Openly.
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. We had a couple of events this week to talk about and we’re laying the groundwork for even more coming up soon.
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:
● PTSD Monthly Update: Living with Someone with PTSD
● Removing Barriers in the Assessment of Combat-Related Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.
As part of my job with the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) as a Deployment Behavioral Health Psychologist, I have the privilege of training psychology students in their last year of training—the predoctoral internship. Our faculty have a lot to teach them in that one year: military officership AND military psychology. In addition, we want to make sure that each intern’s skills as a generalist are well-grounded with strong abilities in assessment, consultation, and treatment. Since we carefully select our interns from among the most competitive applicants, we usually have the luxury of “fine-tuning” during the internship year. In other words, as faculty, we get to work with advanced psychology students and hone some special skills.
65%
The percentage of all Veterans who died from suicide in 2014 who were 50 years or older, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that will be publicly released later this month.