35%
The percentage of women Veterans who identified "mental health" as their top "personal challenge" in the Service Women’s Action Network's first annual Survey of Service Women and Women Veterans.
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’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is next week, but we’ve got lots to fit in before then.
The CDP's weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Clinician's Trauma Update Online (VA)
● Reciprocal Relationships Between Stressors and Mental Health Problems in Military Veterans.
With the 2011 repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and Don’t Pursue policy, which later became known as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT), the transgender military population was left unprotected with an increased uncertainty about their status in the US military. They were unable to join the military and if already serving, being identified as a transgender individual could be grounds for involuntary separation or denial of reenlistment (Goldbach & Castron, 2016; Kerrigan, 2012).
57 %
The "labor force participation rate" of military wives in 2010, down from 63% in 1990, according to a new article in the journal Review of Economics of the Household -- The labor supply of military wives in the US.