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:
The percentage of a sample of mental health providers working with military patients who have experienced "secondary traumatic stress (STS)," according to a study recently published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease -- Secondary traumatic stress among mental health providers working with the military: prevalence and its work- and exposure-related correlates.
Welcome to this week's CDP news update! We usually like to use this space to look back on recent and upcoming news and happenings at the CDP, but since Christmas was this week and New Year's Day is next week, we don't have much news to talk about this time around. Instead, we'd like to take a moment to wish you and yours a happy holidays.
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The percentage of "private contractors working in conflict environments" who screened positive, respectively, for PTSD, depression, and alcohol misuse, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation -- Out of the Shadows: The Health and Well-Being of Private Contractors Working in Conflict Environments.
Welcome to another Friday edition of CDP News! We like to use this space every week to review recent news and happenings, in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events.