The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Increases in Positive Emotions as Precursors to Therapeutic Change.
● Premorbid traumatic stress and veteran responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
● Association Between Social Media Use and Self-reported Symptoms of Depression in US Adults.
This past December 7th marked the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. As a young psychologist, just out of internship in the Navy, I visited the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. This was before September 11, 2001 and I was hopeful that we were facing an extended period of peace in our country. Before entering the USS Arizona Memorial, I had thought of it as a historical war memorial from my grandparents’ generation. But that day, standing before the marble wall towering over me, listing the names of those who died, I was transformed.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● The career transition experiences of military Veterans: A qualitative study.
● Military identity and planning for the transition out of the military.
● Anxiety sensitivity and posttraumatic stress symptoms: Associations among female Veterans with a history of military sexual trauma.
The percentage of veterans believed by the American public to be suffering from PTSD, according to a recent survey by the Cohen Veterans Network, "a not-for-profit philanthropic organization that serves post-9/11 veterans, military families and active duty service members through a nationwide system of mental health clinics". In reality, according to the survey, "PTSD impacts 11-20% of Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans, approximately 12% of Gulf War veterans, and 15% of Vietnam veterans."
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● STRONG STAR Consortium and the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD (2021). STRONG STAR and the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD: Shaping the future of combat PTSD and related conditions in military and veteran populations.
● The effect of perceived life stress on posttraumatic stress disorder treatment outcome.
● Effects of training service dogs on service members with PTSD: A pilot-feasibility randomized study with mixed methods.