I vividly remember when the Department of Defense (DoD) transitioned to using the DoD Suicide Event Report (DoDSER) system. I was a young Air Force psychologist stationed in Germany at the time and I remember thinking, “Oh no, one more new system to learn”. However, I now know how valuable the DoDSER program is in helping standardize suicide surveillance across the Services.
24,000
The number of texts responded to by the Veterans Crisis Line (text 838255) since it was established in 2011, according to a new Congressional Research Service report -- Health Care for Veterans: Suicide Prevention (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’re well into February and going strong!
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:
● Defense Health Care: Additional Information Needed about Mental Health Provider Staffing Needs (GAO)
● Training in the Implementation of Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Provider Correlates of Treatment Outcome.
4,608
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6,186
Respectively, the number of DoD mental health providers in FY 2009 and FY 2013, according to a Government Accountability Office report released on January 30th -- Defense Health Care: Additional Information Needed about Mental Health Provider Staffing Needs. According to the report, "Social workers and psychologists were the most frequently added types of mental health providers during this period."