Dr. Marjorie Weinstock is the Lead, Military Families & CBT for Depression at the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. This week I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to sit down with her to discuss her background and ask her a variety of questions about military life and its impact on families.
Estimated program costs of the Post 9/11 GI Bill over its 15-year lifespan, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation -- Understanding the Cost and Quality of Military-Related Education Benefit Programs. The gist of the report is that there needs to be more research done regarding the efficacy of this program.
Welcome to 2014 and the new year’s first edition of CDP News!
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.