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The percentage of U.S. businesses in which a Veteran is the majority owner, according to a recent article in the journal Military Medicine -- American Military Veteran Entrepreneurs: A Comprehensive Profile of Demographic, Service History, and Psychosocial Characteristics.
I have been watching and experiencing Navy deployment reunifications for decades. As a clinical social worker, I’ve talked to many Sailors and families about what they can expect following a deployment. The first deployment I personally experienced was in the mid-90s when my now-husband and I first started dating. His Japan-based ship was completing a scheduled five-month deployment. In those days, families knew the date the ship was leaving, the date they would return, as well as dates and locations of every port visit while they were out.
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Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. It’s May and feeling like summer here at CDP headquarters. It’s going to be a busy month, so let’s get to it!
The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Talking about Sexual Abuse, PTSD Monthly Update - April 2018
● Associations of Time-Related Deployment Variables With Risk of Suicide Attempt Among Soldiers: Results From the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Service members (Army STARRS).
● Suicide Ideation in Female Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma: The Trauma Source Matters.