The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Adding insult to injury: Exploring the relation between moral injury and military sexual trauma.
● Examining sleep disturbance components as near-term predictors of suicide ideation in daily life.
● Firearm Ownership Among a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Veterans.
September is Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month. While there is usually not one single factor that leads to these tragic losses of life. There are oftentimes so many missed opportunities for intervention. As you take the time to listen to Lisa's story, although a fictional account, realize the implications are very real. Suicide Prevention is something that requires collaboration, we can't handle it alone So ask yourself, Where will I stand in the gaps?
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The percentage of "total active component service member medical encounters in 2022" involving COVID-19, according to a report published in June 2023 by the Military Health System -- Absolute and Relative Morbidity Burdens Attributable to Various Illnesses and Injuries Among Active Component Members, U.S. Armed Forces, 2022.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Cohort Profile Update: The US Millennium Cohort Study—evaluating the impact of military experiences on service members and veteran health.
● Cognitive reappraisal moderates the effect of combat or other exposures on negative behavioral health symptoms.
● Early predictors of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder symptom trajectories in U.S. Army soldiers deployed to the Iraq war zone.
In our first episode of season 4, we tackle one of the top concerns we hear in our PTSD EBP workshops and consultation… “But what if my client dissociates?!”. If this has been on your list of clinical worries, worry no more! In this episode we are joined by one of CDP’s PTSD experts, Dr. Kelly Chrestman to dig into what is dissociation (and what isn’t)? What is its function? How can we best assess it? When is it likely to show up? AND most importantly, what providers can do to manage it in the context of their EBP work!