The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment Outcomes in Military Clinics.
● Mental Health Stigma in Department of Defense Policies: Analysis, Recommendations, and Outcomes.
● Mental Health Care Use Among U.S. Military Veterans: Results From the 2019– 2020 National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study.
Ah, the post-holiday blues! We've all seen them, if not in others than in ourselves. Why do they happen? How do they actually make a lot of sense? This blog shares a way to explain this phenomenon that can actually help people understand their increased depression after the holidays in a way that lessens their potential guilt for having the blues.
The number of "beneficiaries" served by Military Health System (MHS) in the U.S. and abroad, according to a recently updated Congressional Research Service report -- Military Medical Care: Frequently Asked Questions.
As I write this, I am wrapping up end of year tasks (this is one of the last must-dos) and looking forward to 2022. I think it is going to look much different than any of us expected. I know for myself, I thought, perhaps naively, that we would be past some of the COVID challenges. I was hopeful at this time last year that we would be back to some normalcy. While things are different than a year ago, we still have a long way to go in managing life as COVID continues to bring more challenges and new variants.
The percentage of Army recruits between 2001 and 2012 who "needed some kind of waiver to get in, most often for health reasons," according to an article in the Rand Review -- Army Enlistment Waivers in the Age of Legal Marijuana