An exciting collaboration between the Uniformed Services University Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology and the Center for Deployment Psychology is investigating a standardized training program for eating disorders within military settings.
Hopefully, the title hooked you. Now what am I talking about? And who is “us”? The “what” is conversations about firearm safety and suicide prevention. The “who” is healthcare providers. Let’s take a few steps back…
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Children’s Experiences of Parental Deaths Due to Suicide, Homicide, Overdose, Alcohol, or Drug Use.
● Leveraging Novel Alternative Payment Models to Promote Evidence-Based Behavioral Health Care. (Viewpoint)
● Adolescent Treatment Landscape of Depression, Suicidality, and Substance Use Disorder in the US.
In our suicide prevention trainings at CDP, we discuss current theories of suicide risk, specifically emphasizing those of that fall within the “ideation-to-action framework” (Klonsky & May, 2016). This framework posits that the development of suicidal ideation and the progression from ideation to suicide attempts are distinct processes with distinct explanations. In conjunction with this discussion, we also spend a substantial amount of time talking about risk and protective factors, both in the civilian population and among military-connected individuals.
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The factor by which "(o)lder men are more likely to die by firearm suicide compared with older women," according to an article in JAMA Network Open -- Sex Differences in Trends of Firearm Suicide Among Older Adults, 2014 to 2023. "However," the article points out, "female gun ownership has surged in recent years, with nearly one-half of all new gun owners being women.