Last week the Center for Deployment Psychology hosted the first ever (that we’re aware of) online training in Prolonged Exposure Therapy for continuing education credits. We’re very proud of our team of presenters and support staff that helped pull this off. Even more importantly, all of the participants in this training seemed to enjoy and get quite a bit out of it, judging from the post-training surveys we’ve already received.
22.3%
The percentage of adults in Utah who "experienced any mental illness in the past year," according to a recent report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration -- State Estimates of Adult Mental Illness for the 2011 and 2012 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health, which "provides an overview of the nature and scope of mental illness within each state and the District of Columbia."
Happy Friday and 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 been a very exciting week around here! On Thursday and Friday, we presented our first ever online Prolonged Exposure training session via Adobe Connect.
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:
● Casualties of the Global War on Terror and Their Future Impact on Health Care and Society: A Looming Public Health Crisis.
● Participant experiences in peer- and clinician-facilitated mental health recovery groups for veterans.
5.5 million
The number of military caregivers in the United States, according to a new RAND Corporation report -- Hidden Heroes America's Military Caregivers.