9.42 million
The number of Military Health System beneficiaries in FY 2017, according to a Congressional Research Service brief issued earlier this year -- Defense Primer: Military Health System.
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’re working our way through August and getting ready for a very busy September!
The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Telemental Health Delivery of Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR) for Rural Women Veterans Who Have Experienced Military Sexual Trauma.
● Cognitive reappraisal moderates the relationship between PTSD symptoms and alcohol use over time in post-9/11 U.S. military veterans.
● Deployment and Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Active Duty Service Members in the U.S. Military
We all know the necessity of learning new things and professional development. However, it can be difficult to carve out time in one’s busy schedule to attend training, especially when that training may include the travel and other expenses.
23%
The percentage of a cohort of 570,248 "deployed Post-9/11 Veterans" who "had at least one diagnosis of sensory dysfunction" (i.e., auditory, visual, vestibular, chemosensory and multiple sensory problems), according to an article recently published online by the journal Brain Injury -- Sensory dysfunction and traumatic brain injury severity among deployed post-9/11 veterans: a chronic effects of neurotrauma consortium study.