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:
● Clinician’s Trauma Update (National Center for PTSD)
● Predicting Suicides After Psychiatric Hospitalization in US Army Soldiers The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS).
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The percentage of civilian behavioral health providers surveyed the RAND Corporation who "met all the readiness criteria" to serve veterans and their families, according to a new report -- Ready to Serve: Community-Based Provider Capacity to Deliver Culturally Competent, Quality Mental Health Care to Veterans and Their Families.
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. This week was cut down due to the holiday on Tuesday, but we still stayed quite busy.
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:
What defines competency for trauma-related mental health services? Cook and Newman (2014) wrote an article summarizing major findings from the New Haven Trauma Competency Consensus Conference in effort to provide a comprehensive model of “trauma-focused, empirically informed competencies” (p 300). The conference participants were nominated by peers for their expertise with trauma and varied in their professional backgrounds (e.g., psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers), roles (e.g., independent practice, medical settings, academic affiliation) and professional organizations. The main purpose of the conference was to have subject matter experts identify empirically informed knowledge, skills, and attitudes deemed critical to developing competency in working with traumatized adults and children.