CDP's Dr. Augusto Ruiz talks with Dr. Marvin Podd, Navy Internship Training Director at Walter Reed National Medical Center, about what makes a good military psychology intern and some of the challenges they face in that role.
It’s the end of the week, but before you take off for the holiday weekend, join us for the latest edition of CDP News! As always, we’ll be taking a look back at recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, as well as upcoming events. The kids aren’t the only ones headed back to school, we’ll be bringing the University Counseling Center Core Competency (UC4) program to Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, PA this Thursday, Sept. 5. The following week on 11-12 Sept., we’ll be visiting Penn. State University for our UC4-E program and teaching a two-day session on Cognitive Processing Therapy.
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:
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Mental Health Problems in the Military: Oversight Issues for Congress
FOCUS -- Current Issue: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury
Most discussions regarding limits to confidentiality tend to lead to further questioning and investigation for answers to an ethical practice.
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The increase in the "reported incidence" of PTSD between 2001 and 2011, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Other Mental Health Problems in the Military: Oversight Issues for Congress. According to the report, PTSD diagnoses have gone from 170 per 100,000 "person years" in 2000 to about 1,110 in 2011.