We all know the necessity of learning new things and professional development. However, it can be difficult to carve out time in one’s busy schedule to attend training, especially when that training may include the travel and other expenses.
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The percentage of a cohort of 570,248 "deployed Post-9/11 Veterans" who "had at least one diagnosis of sensory dysfunction" (i.e., auditory, visual, vestibular, chemosensory and multiple sensory problems), according to an article recently published online by the journal Brain Injury -- Sensory dysfunction and traumatic brain injury severity among deployed post-9/11 veterans: a chronic effects of neurotrauma consortium study.
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. We’ve got lots to look forward to this time around.
The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Sleep deprivation and hallucinations. A qualitative study of military personnel.
● Subtypes of severe psychological distress among US Air Force remote warriors: A latent class analysis.
● Tailoring and testing an event history calendar of lifetime sexual partnerships for military Veterans.
As part of CDP's spotlight on suicide prevention in the month of September, we will be presenting a series of hour-and-a-half long webinars. Each of these free webinars will be led by guest subject matter expert presenters and will focus on an aspect of suicide or suicide prevention. The events will be held on Thursdays, throughout the month, from noon to 1:30 p.m. We invite those interested to register for any or all of the events below by clicking on the titles or by visiting the Suicide Prevention Webinar Series page here.