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The number of times the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline was contacted between July 1, 2022, and December 31, 2024. 1,792,123 contacts (11.0%) (were) rerouted to the Veterans Crisis Line.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Posttraumatic growth among mental health officers who treat soldiers with nonsuicidal self-harm/suicidal behavior: The role of cognitive and personality characteristics.
● Sex Differences in Life Course Suicide Rates by State Firearm Policy Environment.
● Driving cognitive change: a guide to behavioural experiments in cognitive therapy for anxiety disorders and PTSD.
Before we dive into the world of trendy self-help books and motivational countdowns, let’s pay our respects to the ancestors of behavioral science. Thorndike (1911) showed us that actions followed by rewards get repeated, basically, the first “treat-for-trick” system. Hull (1943) tried to jazz things up with drive theory and equations, but it didn’t exactly go viral. Then B.F. Skinner (1953) stepped in and said, “Forget the feelings, just watch what happens after the behavior,” and psychology, education and advertising have never been the same.
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The proportion of "firearm suicides in the US" that occurred "outside the home," according to a Research Letter published in the journal JAMA Network Open -- Location of Firearm Suicides in the United States, 2003-2021.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Prevalence of loneliness states among the US adult population: Findings from the 2022 HINTS-6.
● Location of Firearm Suicides in the United States, 2003-2021.
● Social Drivers of Health and Firearm Storage Practices.