Starting today and continuing on Wednesdays throughout May, CDP is proud to introduce a new, annual webinar series examining multi-disciplinary care for Service members, Veterans, and their families. "Forces For Health: Warrior Wednesday" is a four-part webinar series via the Zoom teleconferencing platform.
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. We're in the final days of April and our Sleep Spotlight month.
The weekly research update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web and a special section focused on sleep and sleep-disturbances. Some of this week's topics include:
● Means restriction for the prevention of suicide: generic protocol.
● Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in DSM- 5 and ICD- 11: Clinical and Behavioral Correlates.
● Military Sexual Assault in Transgender Veterans: Results From a Nationwide Survey.
● Nightmares in United States Military Personnel with Sleep Disturbances.
During this month’s Sleep Team takeover of the CDP website, I wanted to take a minute to talk about a particularly hard hit subset of military members, Special Duty personnel. Over my career I had many opportunities to work with these elite military members both as a clinician and as an embedded consultant. Sleep problems are endemic in this population, so let’s take a quick look at who they are and what types of issues are affecting their mission readiness related to sleep.
31.2%
The percentage of 500 active duty U.S. military personnel who underwent a sleep medicine evaluation and polysomnography who had weekly nightmares, according to a recent study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine -- Nightmares in United States Military Personnel With Sleep Disturbances. Yet only 3.9% of the study participants "reported nightmares as a reason for evaluation."