CDP News: Jan 3, 2014
Welcome to 2014 and the new year’s first edition of CDP News!
Deployment Psychology Blog
Research Update: Jan. 2, 2014
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:
- Tainting the soul: Purity concerns predict moral judgments of suicide.
- Sleep duration, but not insomnia, predicts the 2-year course of depressive and anxiety disorders.
By the Numbers - Dec. 30, 2013
19.2%
The percentage of a sample of mental health providers working with military patients who have experienced "secondary traumatic stress (STS)," according to a study recently published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease -- Secondary traumatic stress among mental health providers working with the military: prevalence and its work- and exposure-related correlates.
CDP News: Dec. 27, 2013
Welcome to this week's CDP news update! We usually like to use this space to look back on recent and upcoming news and happenings at the CDP, but since Christmas was this week and New Year's Day is next week, we don't have much news to talk about this time around. Instead, we'd like to take a moment to wish you and yours a happy holidays.
By the Numbers - Dec. 23, 2013
25%
18%
50%
The percentage of "private contractors working in conflict environments" who screened positive, respectively, for PTSD, depression, and alcohol misuse, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation -- Out of the Shadows: The Health and Well-Being of Private Contractors Working in Conflict Environments.