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. It's spring and our training schedule is "spring"ing to life as well.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Assessment of a Risk Index for Suicide Attempts Among US Army Soldiers With Suicide IdeationAnalysis of Data From the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS).
● Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia among active duty military personnel.
● Intimate Partner Cohesion and Military Unit Cohesion: Different Types of Interpersonal Relationships Each Uniquely Predict Soldier Wellbeing.
● The Association of Pain Intensity and Suicide Attempts Among Patients Initiating Pain Specialty Services.
After exploring the effects on the immediate family, I’d like to refocus on the injured Service member/Veteran and highlight some important resources for better understanding the experiences of TBI through the words of the survivors themselves. The following links highlight several examples of interviews and documentaries with Service members and Veterans who experienced TBI during their military careers.
22.8% & 9.1%
Respectively, the percentage of 265,566 Iraq and Afghanistan war Veterans who "initiated an EBP" and "completed treatment" at the VA, according to a forthcoming article in the journal Psychiatry Research -- Factors associated with completing evidence-based psychotherapy for PTSD among veterans in a national healthcare system.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● What Do Veterans Want? Understanding Veterans’ Preferences for PTSD Treatment Delivery.
● Relationships of deployment and combat experiences to postdeployment negative health conditions among Army National Guard soldiers.
● The reliability of the Epworth Sleepiness Score in a sleep clinic population.