50%
The percentage of patients with eating disorders who report "sleep disturbance," according to a recent article in the International Journal of Eating Disorders -- The Integration of Sleep Research Into Eating Disorders Research: Recommendations and Best Practices.
Over the last few years, the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) has been hard at work developing a first of its kind training for the core components of cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention (CBT-SP). The resulting Second Life Island for Preventing Suicide, or SLIPS, is an asynchronous, avatar-based learning environment focused on reinforcing the concepts learned during traditional two-day CBT-SP workshops.
20%
The percentage of "Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan...diagnosed with a gastrointestinal (GI) disease," according to a recent article published in the journal Sage Open Medicine -- The relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder and gastrointestinal disease in United States Military Veterans.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Unveiling the Structure in Mental Disorder Presentations.
● Heavy Versus Light Smoking: Its Association With Opioid Use, Chronic Pain, and Mental Health.
● Reasons for Gun Ownership Among Demographically Diverse New and Prior Gun Owners.
By show of hands, how many of us encounter clients that are struggling with substance abuse and addiction in the midst of dealing with other mental health issues? Ok, this is a blog, so of course I can’t see your hands, but I am imagining a wall of hands in the air of everyone reading this. And of course that is because substance use disorders are highly co-morbid with other mental health conditions. If you’re like me, having received training in several evidence-based psychotherapies for various conditions, you may not have a lot of experience or training in how to treat or manage co-morbid substance use disorders (SUD). This can be particularly true regarding the addition of medication-assisted therapist (MAT) for SUD.