Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 25 September 2025

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The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Evaluating Equity in Universal Suicide Screening: Race/Ethnic Differences in Screening Acceptance and Results.
● Sex Differences in Life-Course Suicide Rates by State Firearm Policy Environment.
● Parental Diseases of Despair and Suicidal Events in Their Children.

Research Update: 18 September 2025

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Children’s Experiences of Parental Deaths Due to Suicide, Homicide, Overdose, Alcohol, or Drug Use.
● Leveraging Novel Alternative Payment Models to Promote Evidence-Based Behavioral Health Care. (Viewpoint)
● Adolescent Treatment Landscape of Depression, Suicidality, and Substance Use Disorder in the US.

Staff Perspective: Protective Factors for Veterans at Risk for Suicide

In our suicide prevention trainings at CDP, we discuss current theories of suicide risk, specifically emphasizing those of that fall within the “ideation-to-action framework” (Klonsky & May, 2016). This framework posits that the development of suicidal ideation and the progression from ideation to suicide attempts are distinct processes with distinct explanations. In conjunction with this discussion, we also spend a substantial amount of time talking about risk and protective factors, both in the civilian population and among military-connected individuals.

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