According to a recent Washington Post story -- Motor vehicle crashes: A little-known risk to returning veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan -- veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, after they leave active service, have a 75% higher rate of fatal motor vehicle accidents than civilians.
Welcome to Friday, the end of another work week and the latest edition of CDP News. As always, we’re taking a look back at the past week as well as future events around the Center for Deployment Psychology. For upcoming trainings, our University Counseling Center Core Competency Extended (UC4-E) program will be visiting Columbus, OH to present Prolonged Exposure Therapy training at The Ohio State University on Wednesday and Thursday, May 8-9. This follow-up training is designed to build upon the instructional foundations that are laid during our standard UC4 course. The two-day session teaches attendees about of the use of specific evidence-based therapies, either Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) or Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT).
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:
• Survival–Recovery Effect: Military Wives With Soldier–Husbands Deployed to the Operation Iraqi Freedom Conflict.
• Mind-Body Practices for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
• Emotion Differentiation as a Protective Factor Against Nonsuicidal Self-injury in Borderline Personality Disorder.
Working in an active duty Department of Defense (DoD) Behavioral Health Clinic can be challenging, with busy patient loads, complex cases, limited administrative time, and frequent short notice tasks. It can be a recipe for burnout, and those of us working there are often encouraged to engage in “provider self-care.” Such self-care is intended to be a daily ritual with the hope that doing so will prevent burnout and keep the caregivers healthy and productive. I’m a fan of the daily self-care model. I have an active social life, I regularly engage in my hobbies, I read, I exercise, I have a healthy diet, and even go to yoga. Even with all this text book self-care sometimes tragedy and adversity can crash into the personal lives of the caregiver.
The percentage by which "psychotherapy targeting suicide prevention reduced the risk for attempts" -- at least for adults -- according to an article recently published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine -- Screening for and Treatment of Suicide Risk Relevant to Primary Care: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.