Deployment Psychology Blog

This article provides rationale for utilizing a suicide screening procedure in a sleep medicine setting and offers suggested elements for such screening. The authors note that the connection between sleep problems and suicide risk has become well established, although the mechanisms of this relationship are not yet clear. Even though research on the relationship between sleep problems and suicide is not new (these authors note that the relationship was known nearly sixty years ago!), an increase in the amount and specificity of research examining sleep and suicide has been fairly recent and has led to the inclusion of sleep disturbance as both a risk factor and a warning sign for suicide risk.

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:

● PTSD Research Quarterly: Practical Implications of Research on Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
● The Role of Psychological and Social Factors in the Relationship between Attachment and Suicide: A Systematic Review.
● The Use of Telepain for Chronic Pain in the U.S. Armed Forces: Patient Experience from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
● Effect of Patient Compliance With Treatment Recommendations on Clinical Outcomes in Chronic mTBI: A TEAM-TBI Study.