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:
• Delivery of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy via Video Telehealth.
• Predeployment Sleep Duration and Insomnia Symptoms as Risk Factors for New-Onset Mental Health Disorders Following Military Deployment.
• Two War-Torn Soldiers: Combat-Related Trauma through an Intersubjective Lens.
Every year for the past five years as our new class of Army Psychology Interns arrives for orientation at Brooke Army Medical Center, we have them watch the film “Return With Honor” by filmmakers Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders. This is not a new film, being made in 2001 by Public Broadcasting Services. Despite this, two successive active duty training directors have considered it important enough that our new intern officers should watch. I agree with them.
Roughly, the number of veterans who obtain "medical, surgical, and rehabilitative care" annually from the Veterans Health Administration, out of 22 million who are eligible, according to a recent RAND Corporation Report -- Health Care Spending and Efficiency in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The VHA comprises 152 hospitals, 800 community-based outpatient clinics, and 126 nursing homes, according to the report, which represents just a small fraction of the overall U.S. health care system, which includes some 5,000 hospitals.
It’s Friday and that means it’s time for this week’s CDP News. Join us as we take a minute to look back at the past week, as well as looking ahead to upcoming events at the Center for Deployment Psychology. We’re enjoying the summer, but still keeping busy at our mission to provide high-quality instruction in evidence-based therapies to behavioral health providers. We’ve got a few training events coming up soon. The first up is the University Counseling Center Core Competency program, which will be heading to Irving, Texas, just outside of Dallas, to present at North Lake College on Tuesday, July 16th.
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:
• Family-Centered Care for Military and Veteran Families Affected by Combat Injury.
• Long-Term Trajectories and Service Needs for Military Families.
• The Association of Sleep Duration, Mental Health, and Health Risk Behaviors among U.S. Afghanistan/Iraq Era Veterans.