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The percentage by which the Post-9/11 Veteran population is expected to increase between 2014 and 2019, according to a report released last month by the National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics -- Profile of Post-9/11 Veterans: 2014.
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 was a slower week than usual, due to the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, but we’ve got plenty of events on the horizon.
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:
● PTSD Research Quarterly -- Group Treatment for PTSD
● Assessing mental health clinicians’ intentions to adopt evidence-based treatments:reliability and validity testing of the evidence-based treatment intentions scale.
I’ve always loved comedy and gravitated towards individuals with humor and quick wit, whether in a friend, colleague, or comedian. I find that comedy and humor can be base, but in other moments incredibly stimulating intellectually and even emotionally powerful. Comedy can make connections between ideas and subjects that are seemingly unconnectable, it can short-circuit the brain into confusion and epiphany in a singular moment of time, dousing our brains with dopamine and contorting our bodies with intense laughter.
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 been busy this week, since next week will be shortened by Memorial Day on Monday.