116,000
and
20,300
Respectively, the number of Service members who were sexually harassed last year and the number who were sexually assaulted, according to a new RAND Corporation report -- Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military (Volume 2. Estimates for Department of Defense Service Members from the 2014 RAND Military Workplace Study).
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. Welcome to May everyone. Summer is right around the corner, but we’ve still got plenty on our schedule.
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:
● Understanding Sexual Trauma: PTSD Monthly Update, April 2015
● DSM-5 personality traits discriminate between posttraumatic stress disorder and control groups.
I recently watched a very powerful video by famed author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger, entitled “Why veterans miss war”. As part of the TED Talk series, he discusses his experiences in Afghanistan and what he learned about the soldiers he spent time alongside.
37%
The percentage of U.S. military members who "sleep the recommended seven to eight hours per night," according to a new RAND Corporation report -- Sleep Problems and Their Impact on U.S. Servicemembers. Moreover, 31% of the servicemembers in RAND's survey reported getting fewer than 5 hours of sleep a night -- "an amount linked to an increased risk of mental and physical health problems," according to the researchers. Additionally, "nearly half the sample had clinically significant poor sleep quality. (By way of comparison, the study noted that just 8% of the adult civilian population reported getting 5 or fewer hours of sleep per night.)