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:
● Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Military and Veteran Populations: Final Assessment. (IOM)
● The Public Health Approach to Reducing Suicide: Opportunities for Curriculum Development in Psychiatry Residency Training Programs.
Review of The RAND Report:
I recently had the opportunity to attend a webinar by the authors of the new RAND Report: “The Deployment Life Study: Methodological Overview and Baseline Sample Description.” This is a topic that’s of interest to me both personally and professionally, so I wanted to share what I learned. This is a 3-year study that is still ongoing, whose objective is to identify the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of family readiness across the deployment cycle.
9.2%
The percentage of all VA users in 2012 who sought care for PTSD, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine -- Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Military and Veteran Populations: Final Assessment.
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 been a busy week, full of training events all across the country. Next week looks like it’s going to be more of the same as we continue the CDP’s mission of offering high-quality training on evidence-based therapies to civilian and military behavioral health providers.
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:
● Positive posttraumatic stress disorder screens among first-time medical cannabis patients: Prevalence and association with other substance use.
● Proinflammatory milieu in combat-related PTSD is independent of depression and early life stress.