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. September is going fast and October is just around the corner.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web, including a special section on suicide prevention. Some of this week's topics include:
● The Association between Mental Health Disorders and History of Unintended Pregnancy among Women Veterans.
● Factors affecting behavioral health provider turnover in US Air Force primary care behavioral health services.
● Sleep, resilience, and psychological distress in United States military Veterans.
● A genome-wide association study of suicide attempts and suicidal ideation in U.S. military Veterans.
My first professional experience with suicide occurred over 20 years ago. The suicide was not one of my clients, but was someone many felt they knew and his death had a huge impact on my professional life. In 1996, I had just moved to Yokosuka, Japan to work as a counselor on a Navy base. It was my first job working for the Navy and I was excited to support Sailors and their families in an overseas environment. At the time I had been out of graduate school only a few years. I was seeking an opportunity to have a positive impact and felt I had the skills and experience to do that on the Navy base.
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The percentage by which Veterans living in rural areas have a higher risk of dying by suicide than Veterans who live in urban areas, according to an article recently published in the journal Psychological Services -- A menu of options: Resources for preventing veteran suicide in rural communities.
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. We’re at the midpoint of the month and it’s been a busy one so far!