Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 13 September 2018

By Shirl Kennedy  on 13.09.2018 12:56 pm

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web, including a special section on suicide prevention. Some of this week's topics include:
● Treatment of trauma related anger in operation enduring freedom, operation Iraqi freedom, and operation New Dawn veterans: Rationale and study protocol.
● Death, Trauma and God: The Effect of Military Deployments on Religiosity.
● COMISA (Comorbid Insomnia and Sleep Apnea): a Practical Approach.
● Heterogeneity in Short-Term Suicidal Ideation Trajectories: Predictors of and Projections to Suicidal Behavior

Staff Perspective: Means Safety – Does It Make a Difference?

By Sharon Birman  on 12.09.2018 8:45 am
Sharon Birman, Psy.D.

In 2015, the National Center for Health Statistics found that in the U.S. alone, 9.8 million adults endorsed having serious suicidal thoughts, and 1.3 million adults reported a suicide attempt during the past year (World Health Organization). Suicide experts advocate for restricting access to lethal means as an effective strategy to reduce suicide rates. In this blog, I plan to review the efficacy of reducing access to various lethal means.

CDP News: 7 September 2018

By Christopher Adams  on 07.09.2018 11:56 am

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. This was a shorter week, due to the Labor Day holiday on Monday, but we still had lots going on.

Research Update: 6 September 2018

By Shirl Kennedy  on 06.09.2018 12:26 pm
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The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web, including a special section on suicide prevention. Some of this week's topics include:
● Clinician's Trauma Update Online (CTU-Online) (August 2018)
● Be There for Veterans and Service Members, PTSD Monthly Update - August 2018
● Mediators of Change in Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Clinical Burnout
● Comparison of the Safety Planning Intervention With Follow-up vs Usual Care of Suicidal Patients Treated in the Emergency Department.

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