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 heading into April and we’ve got lots of things to talk about!
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:
● Anxiety, depression, and the suicidal spectrum: a latent class analysis of overlapping and distinctive features.
● Integrated Treatment of PTSD and Substance Use Disorders: Examination of Imaginal Exposure Length.
What do we say to our clients who perceive that discussing military experiences is akin to “leaking” classified information or will result in legal consequences? Some things can only occur when we can be confident that our disclosures and behavior will be kept hidden from the public eye. Standards related to confidentiality are enshrined in the ethics codes of all mental health disciplines precisely because these standards allow our clients to speak about their issues in a candid manner without fear that their disclosures could be used to harm them.
When my husband decided to join the US Navy, he and I were still dating. I had recently graduated with my Master’s degree in social work and just started my first “real” job, working as a substance abuse counselor for incarcerated adolescents. I still remember the day he told me he was thinking of joining the military. He asked if I was okay with his decision. I said I supported him, but would have to decide if I wanted to follow him down this path.
600,000
The number of U.S. residents who died by suicide during 1999-2015, according to a recent article in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbisity and Mortality Weekly Report -- Trends in Suicide by Level of Urbanization — United States, 1999–2015. The report noted that the highest annual rate occurred in 2015.