The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Cognitive Processing Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder via Telehealth: Practical Considerations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
● Assessing Triggers of Posttrauma Nightmares.
● Minority Participation in Randomized Controlled Trials for Prolonged Exposure Therapy: A Systematic Review of the Literature.
As we close out this year's PTSD Awareness Month, we wanted to take a quick look at a few relevant stories from around the web.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Communication strategies used by women to influence male partners to seek professional help for mental health problems: A qualitative study.
● Evaluating the impact of simulation-based education on clinical psychology students' confidence and clinical competence.
● It Takes a Family: How Military Spousal Laws and Policies Impact National Security.
● Handgun Ownership and Suicide in California.
I had a patient who had once been a psychiatrist and left the field to return to general medicine. He was an active duty Service member who'd had multiple deployments. I remember thinking that he had become so burned out from working with Service members around behavioral health issues and combat that he had to leave that part of the profession altogether. But even then, I realized that "burned out" did not capture what I was seeing in him