The ratio by which military spouses and children now outnumber service members, according to a special issue of The Future of Children, a journal published jointly by The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution.
We’ve reached the end of the week and that means it’s time for another edition of CDP News! Join us as we take our weekly look back at recent happenings as well as upcoming events in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology.
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:
I recently had the privilege of working with my colleagues, Dr. David Riggs and Dr. Paula Dominici, to deliver a workshop for experienced PE therapists who are taking their skills and knowledge to the next level by becoming consultants. If you know Dave and Paula, then you are aware that the workshop was well-organized, data-driven, thorough, and extremely clinically relevant. It was a beautiful thing.
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"The crude rate of suicide per 100,000 person years," among 150,000 active duty personnel and Veterans who, respectively, did not deploy to OEF/OIF, who deployed without combat, and who experienced combat, according to a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association -- Risk factors associated with suicide in current and former US military personnel.