The number of "beneficiaries" served by Military Health System (MHS) in the U.S. and abroad, according to a recently updated Congressional Research Service report -- Military Medical Care: Frequently Asked Questions.
As I write this, I am wrapping up end of year tasks (this is one of the last must-dos) and looking forward to 2022. I think it is going to look much different than any of us expected. I know for myself, I thought, perhaps naively, that we would be past some of the COVID challenges. I was hopeful at this time last year that we would be back to some normalcy. While things are different than a year ago, we still have a long way to go in managing life as COVID continues to bring more challenges and new variants.
The percentage of Army recruits between 2001 and 2012 who "needed some kind of waiver to get in, most often for health reasons," according to an article in the Rand Review -- Army Enlistment Waivers in the Age of Legal Marijuana
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Increases in Positive Emotions as Precursors to Therapeutic Change.
● Premorbid traumatic stress and veteran responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
● Association Between Social Media Use and Self-reported Symptoms of Depression in US Adults.
This past December 7th marked the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. As a young psychologist, just out of internship in the Navy, I visited the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. This was before September 11, 2001 and I was hopeful that we were facing an extended period of peace in our country. Before entering the USS Arizona Memorial, I had thought of it as a historical war memorial from my grandparents’ generation. But that day, standing before the marble wall towering over me, listing the names of those who died, I was transformed.