200%
According to an article reviewing numerous studies in the April issue of Military Medicine -- Casualties of the Global War on Terror and Their Future Impact on Health Care and Society: A Looming Public Health Crisis -- "PTSD sufferers are 200% more likely to be diagnosed with an unrelated medical disease within 5 years of returning from deployment" than a control group without PTSD.
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. Today is the final day of our 2014 Mid-Atlantic Regional 1-Week Civilian Training event in Washington, D.C. We’d like to thank all of our participants, especially those who traveled from around the country to join us this week. It’s been a very busy week, but we’re always glad to see so many providers eager to learn and enhance their skills.
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:
● Non-pharmacological Intervention for Chronic Pain in Veterans: A Pilot Study of Heart
Rate Variability Biofeedback.
● Suicide Prevention in Social Work Education: How Prepared Are Social Work Students?
● Risk and Protective Factors for Three Major Mental Health Problems Among Latino
American Men Nationwide.
Last week the Center for Deployment Psychology hosted the first ever (that we’re aware of) online training in Prolonged Exposure Therapy for continuing education credits. We’re very proud of our team of presenters and support staff that helped pull this off. Even more importantly, all of the participants in this training seemed to enjoy and get quite a bit out of it, judging from the post-training surveys we’ve already received.
22.3%
The percentage of adults in Utah who "experienced any mental illness in the past year," according to a recent report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration -- State Estimates of Adult Mental Illness for the 2011 and 2012 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health, which "provides an overview of the nature and scope of mental illness within each state and the District of Columbia."