The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Brief behavioral treatment for insomnia: Treatment schedule and training feasibility in the military.
● Examining the development of PTSD symptoms in individuals who witness acute stress reaction on the battlefield.
● CBT and CFT for Chronic Pain.
Newer research is examining not just the overall effect of treatment strategies for insomnia, but how certain approaches may produce different symptom specific effects during the course of treatment. The purpose of this blog will be to review the theory, interventions, and research findings about how these treatment approaches may produce symptom specific effects during the course of insomnia treatment.
The number of male and female U.S. Veterans as of 2020, according to a recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- Employment Situation of Veterans. The report indicates that this is "about 7 percent of the civilian noninstitutional population age 18 and over."
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● The Relationship Between Suicidal Behaviors and Zero Suicide Organizational Best Practices in Outpatient Mental Health Clinics.
● The association between type of trauma, level of exposure and addiction.
● Acute Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment and Management in the Austere Setting—A Review.
Dr. Rita Brock recently shared her thoughts on moral distress and injury and COVID-19 frontline workers with me. Dr. Brock has spent much of her career as an academic in philosophy and religion, obtaining her doctorate in this field in 1988. Her interests turned toward moral injury after a 2009 article by Dr. Brett Litz “grabbed me and wouldn’t let me go.”