There is a growing demand for embedding mental health personnel in military operational settings to improve health and optimize the performance. Given the importance of sleep to both general health and occupational performance, this blog seeks to highlight relevant findings concerning how supervisor’s behaviors correspond to sleep outcomes for subordinates.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Clinician's Trauma Update Online (February 2020)
● Increasing Mindfulness Skills of Veterans With PTSD Through Daily Mindfulness Training Incorporated Into an Intensive Treatment Program.
● Burnout in psychological therapists: A cross-sectional study investigating the role of supervisory relationship quality.
● Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for mental health problems: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Military deployments and family separations due to trainings and other military duties are not easy – not for the Service members nor for the spouses left behind. These military experiences can place significant stress on couples which can result in marital dissatisfaction. Therefore, understanding the specific ways these military experiences impact couples as well as identifying interventions that help combat relationship distress is of critical importance.
7.2%
The percentage of a sample of U.S. adults who "met criteria" for either post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), according to a study recently published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress -- ICD‐11 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the United States: A Population‐Based Study. "(T)he prevalence rates were 3.4% for PTSD and 3.8% for CPTSD."