The percentage of of veterans who will be women by 2032, according to an article from the RAND Corporation -- Improving Support for Veteran Women: Veterans' Issues in Focus. Currently, 10% of veterans are women.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Using Client Narratives to Identify Predictors of Outcome in Written Exposure Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy.
● Event centrality and posttraumatic stress symptoms after traumatic injury: A longitudinal investigation.
● Comparing immediate- and delayed-onset posttraumatic stress disorder: Results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions–III (NESARC-III).
While I’ve written numerous blogs about military couples, one of my other professional interests is suicide prevention. Since September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, I thought suicide prevention would be a good topic for my blog post this month. So, when I recently ran across Khalifan and colleagues’ (2022) article “Utilizing the couple relationship to prevent suicide: A preliminary examination of treatment for relationships and safety together” I was intrigued!
The number of low-income veterans who report owning a firearm, according to a study published earlier this year in the journal Military Psychology -- Prevalence and characteristics associated with firearm ownership among low-income U.S. veterans.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Caring for Service Members Who Have Been Sexually Assaulted: The Military Health System.
● Sexual compulsivity, erectile dysfunction, and suicidality among male survivors of military sexual violence.
● The mental health impact of COVID-19–related stressors among treatment seeking trauma-exposed veterans.