The percentage of Americans who "believe the (m)ajority of (v)eterans (e)xperience PTSD," according to a recent America’s Mental Health PTSD Pulse Survey conducted by the Cohen Veterans Network.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Effects of pre-bedtime blue-light exposure on ratio of deep sleep in healthy young men.
● From everyday life predictions to suicide prevention: Clinical and ethical considerations in suicide predictive analytic tools.
● Social closeness and support are associated with lower risk of suicide among U.S. Army soldiers.
A common target for stigma-reduction interventions is to increase social support within military units with the goal of fostering support for mental-health treatment for individual service members. Recent findings from a study of Army National Guard personnel suggest that these approaches may have some unexpected and unintended consequences for treatment-seeking in Service members with service-related mental health conditions.
The percentage of providers is a recent study who reported using Prolonged Exposure therapy (PE) in PTSD treatment, according to a recent article in the journal Behavior Therapy -- Exposure Therapy Beliefs and Utilization for Treatment of PTSD: A Survey of Licensed Mental Health Providers. Roughly 2/3 of those surveyed (68%) reported having received training in PE.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Predictors and protective factors for suicide ideation across remotely piloted aircraft career fields.
● Pornography Use and Intimate Partner Violence Among a Sample of U.S. Army Soldiers in 2018: A Cross-Sectional Study.
● Presence of PTSD is Associated with Clinical and Functional Impact in Veterans with Depression Treated in Community-Based Clinics.