CDP's own Dr. Michelle Cornette providers readers with an overview and summary of a recent piece she co-authored on the topic of social cognition and its relation to suicide risk. Check it out on the CDP's blog here!
Between 2000 and 2012, 159,107 "active component service members" experienced 192,317 "mental disorder hospitalizations," according to the July 2013 issue of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center's Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR). The report in this special "Mental Health Issue" points out that "mental disorders are the only illness/injury category for which hospitalization rates have markedly increased during the first 11 years of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Happy Friday everyone! Welcome to the latest edition of CDP News, where we take a look and the news and happenings around the Center for Deployment Psychology. We’ve got plenty of big things to talk about this time around.
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:
After nearly 25 years, the DSM-V has finally been released! The diagnoses of PTSD and ASD have been significantly revised based upon recent research. Most notably, PTSD and ASD have been moved from anxiety disorders to new category “Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders.” In addition, in DSM-IV and DSM IV-TR, PTSD and ASD were distinct. ASD was not a diluted version of PTSD, but an early response characterized primarily by an emphasis on dissociative qualities.