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. It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is next week, but we’ve got lots to fit in before then.
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:
● Clinician's Trauma Update Online (VA)
● Reciprocal Relationships Between Stressors and Mental Health Problems in Military Veterans.
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The "labor force participation rate" of military wives in 2010, down from 63% in 1990, according to a new article in the journal Review of Economics of the Household -- The labor supply of military wives in the US.
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:
● Why might poor sleep quality lead to depression? A role for emotion regulation.
● Forensic implications of changes in DSM-5 criteria for responses to trauma and stress.
In Part 1 of this blog titled, Pondering the Question of Prescribed Cannabis Use and the Potential Effect on Trauma and Stressor-Related Treatment, I closed by saying that while research is being conducted currently on this issue, there is no study of marijuana use in the Veteran population. I am happy to report that research with 76 Veteran participants who have treatment-resistant PTSD was approved by the DEA and is underway.