Roughly the amount of money lost to scams targeting military personnel and Veterans since 2012, according to Comparitech, a website that provides "information, tools, and comparisons to help consumers...research and compare tech services."
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Determinants of new-onset alcohol use disorder in U.S. military veterans: Results from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study.
● Medicinal cannabis for psychiatric disorders: a clinically-focused systematic review.
● Baseline Cognitive Performance and Treatment Outcomes From Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Naturalistic Study.
● Courses of suicidal ideation among military veterans in residential treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder.
While the majority of military spouses are female, male military spouses represent a unique and often unrecognized segment of military dependents. In this blog, we examine what, if any, advances in understanding this population have been made through recent DoD demographics and research publications
$94 billion
The total amount of benefits provided to Veterans by the Post-9/11 GI Bill -- which "pays tuition, housing, and other costs for veterans pursuing higher education" -- since 2009, according to 2019 testimony from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) -- POST-9/11 GI BILL: Veterans Affected by School Closures.
Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. It seems like the new year just started, but we're already at the end of January!