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The percentage of civilian behavioral health providers surveyed the RAND Corporation who "met all the readiness criteria" to serve veterans and their families, according to a new report -- Ready to Serve: Community-Based Provider Capacity to Deliver Culturally Competent, Quality Mental Health Care to Veterans and Their Families.
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. This week was cut down due to the holiday on Tuesday, but we still stayed quite busy.
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:
What defines competency for trauma-related mental health services? Cook and Newman (2014) wrote an article summarizing major findings from the New Haven Trauma Competency Consensus Conference in effort to provide a comprehensive model of “trauma-focused, empirically informed competencies” (p 300). The conference participants were nominated by peers for their expertise with trauma and varied in their professional backgrounds (e.g., psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers), roles (e.g., independent practice, medical settings, academic affiliation) and professional organizations. The main purpose of the conference was to have subject matter experts identify empirically informed knowledge, skills, and attitudes deemed critical to developing competency in working with traumatized adults and children.
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The number of programs offered by the Department of Defense (DoD) "to help address the effects of combat on post-9/11 servicemembers, their families, or both," according to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report -- DOD and VA Programs That Address the Effects of Combat and Transition to Civilian Life. According to the GAO, "These programs often offer multiple types of services. The services most common are mental health and substance abuse (50), information and referral (37), and case management or care coordination (15)."