24%
The percentage of Veterans who live in rural area, compared to 18.6% of civilians, according to a new report from the VA's National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics -- Characteristics of Rural Veterans: 2014 (PDF).
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've still got a few more weeks of summer, but we're not letting the heat slow us down any!
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:
● PTSD Monthly Update -- Talking to Your Doctor About PTSD
● A Semantic Corpus Comparison Analysis of Couple-Focused Interventions for Problematic Alcohol Use.
This year, 2016, we celebrate a notable anniversary for the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP). Ten years ago, CDP was established at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and embarked on the crucial undertaking of training and educating behavioral health professionals to help them better care for our nation’s Service members, Veterans, and their families.
40,000
The approximate number of behavioral heath providers educated by CDP since 2006, on topics including military culture, evidence-based psychotherapies, and clinical issues such as depression, in Service members, Veterans and families.