The percentage of "(w)omen serving in the U.S. military" who "report mental health problems," according to a recent study from the RAND Corporation -- Gender Differences in Health Among U.S. Service Members. Among male service members, it's 15%.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Black women in the military: Prevalence, characteristics, & correlates of sexual harassment.
● Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Veterans With Comorbid Posttraumatic Headache and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
● Co-occurring alcohol and mental health problems in the military: Prevalence, disparities, and service utilization.
As we head into a month of Staff Perspective blogs focusing on the stigma around mental health, I struggled to come up with an angle that had not been addressed, either in previous blogs by CDP staff or in a myriad of other venues. The construct of stigma around mental health is well researched and many have written on the root of the stigma, why the military may be particularly plagued by stigma and potential directions to go in reduction efforts.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Military Traumatic Brain Injury: The History, Impact, and Future.
● A review of the referral process for evidence-based psychotherapies for PTSD among veterans.
● Evaluation of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Acute Stress Disorder VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines Training.
Once upon a time, in the post-disco 1980’s, Madonna was singing about material girls and Vincent Felitti was trying to figure out why so many people were prematurely dropping out of his weight loss program at Kaiser Permanente’s Department of Preventative Medicine in San Diego. The weight loss clinic was a state-of-the-art program designed to help those who were 100 to 600 pounds overweight. Inexplicably, many were dropping out even though they had successfully been losing weight.