$58.4 billion
"The national cost of suicides and suicide attempts in the United States in 2013," according to a new article in the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior -- Suicide and Suicidal Attempts in the United States: Cost and Policy Implications.
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. This week was broken up with Veterans Day in this middle, so it slowed things down a little, but we’ve still got plenty 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:
● Veterans Day 2015: PTSD and Veterans - PTSD Monthly Update, November 2015
● Psychometric Analysis of the PTSD Checklist-5 (PCL-5) among Treatment-Seeking Military Service Members.
For military families, while there has been much attention paid to how military service can impact the Service member’s sleep, aspects of military service such as deployments, TDYs, PCSs, long hours, and stress on a Service member can also impact his or her children’s sleep. That is, on top of normal pediatric sleep issues, children in military families can face additional challenges to sleeping well.
So, I decided to increase my knowledge in this area by going straight to the source and interviewing a subject matter expert on pediatric behavioral sleep medicine, Dr. Brandy Roane, Ph.D., CBSM.
75%
The percentage of military spouses responding to the Blue Star Families 2015 Military Family Lifestyle Survey who said that being a military spouse "had a negative effect on their ability to pursue a career."