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. The seasons may be changing, but the CDP’s mission to deliver high-quality training to civilian and military behavioral health provides remains the same! It was a busy week and we’ve got lots more events coming up soon as well.
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:
● Clinician’s Trauma Update - August 2014 (National Center for PTSD)
● Co-occurrence of dissociative identity disorder and borderline personality disorder.
We have had a lot of questions about personality disorders since the new DSM-V was released earlier this year. The personality disorders (PD) are still included in the revised DSM but are no longer listed on Axis II. I will briefly summarize the PD’s before briefly discussing PD’s in the military. When diagnosing personality disorders it is best to consider a long-term, stable pattern of behavior that meets multiple diagnostic criteria (often five or more). I encourage clinicians to obtain corroborating information from family and long-term friends if possible prior to diagnosis. Please note, that the purpose of this blog is not to diagnose friends, family and co-workers.
31.2%
The percentage of 21,120 Wounded Warrior Project alumni responding to an annual survey who said that mental health issues made it difficult for them "to obtain employment or change jobs."
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.