764,000
The number of young adults (ages 18-24) who "serve in either the Active Duty or the Reserve component of the U.S. Armed Forces," according to a new report from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, America's Young Adults: Special Issue 2014.
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 missed last week due to the holiday, so there's plenty to catch up on 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:
● Military Families in Transition: Stress, Resilience, and Well-being (CTS/USU)
● Relationships, Health, and Coping Among Active Duty Military and Veterans
In a recent Op-Ed published by the Washington Post, Captain Benjamin Summers discussed how "hero worship of the military" and Service members is counter-productive. Dr. Paula Domenici takes a look at this article and examines how some of the same problems can arise during therapy.
44%
The percentage of 2,597 soldiers who had been deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq who reported suffering from chronic pain, according to a research study at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, recently published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine -- Chronic Pain and Opioid Use in US Soldiers After Combat Deployment. 23.2% of these soldiers "reported past-month opioid use."