The portion of U.S. veterans who "report having been arrested and booked into jail at least once in their lives." according to recent research by the Council on Criminal Justice, a think tank focused on criminal justice policy. "
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● The role of military identity in substance use and mental health outcomes among U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers.
● The potential role of sleep symptoms in tobacco withdrawal for the success of cessation therapies.
● Posttraumatic cognitions and sexual assault: Understanding the role of cognition type in posttraumatic stress symptoms and problematic alcohol use.
You name it, we’ve heard about it. Our sleep consultants regularly come across purported new “solutions” for sleep problems, many of which of course involve only a low, low price. If I sound skeptical, it’s because I am; if a revolutionary cure for sleep problems existed, why do people continue to have problems sleeping? So many of my patients have been convinced something works, but still come in reporting they do not sleep well.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Incidences of anxiety disorders among active duty service members between 1999 and 2018.
● Network analysis of mild traumatic brain injury, persistent neurobehavioral and psychiatric symptoms, and functional disability among recent-era United States veterans.
● Family-Involved Mental Health Care Among OEF/OIF Veterans With and Without PTSD Using VHA Administrative Records.
Child and adolescent behavioral health clinicians have always been invested in the mental health needs of our youngest clients. They have a profound understanding of how biology, family, community, and systems impact youth mental health. Mental health needs for children and adolescents continue to rise to an unsurpassed level. Nearly one in five children have a diagnosable mental health condition like depression, anxiety, or ADHD and according to the Centers for Disease Control.