250,000+
The number of pairs of running shoes that U.S. military recruits go through in a year, according to a recent Congressional Research Service Insight brief report -- Athletic Footwear for the Military: The Berry Amendment Controversy (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. June continued to be another busy month! We had training events going on all around the country, with even more on the horizon.
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:
● Expert Insight into the Assessment of Competence in Cognitive–Behavioural Therapy: A Qualitative Exploration of Experts' Experiences, Opinions and Recommendations.
● Suicide prevention strategies revisited: 10-year systematic review.
While Veteran employment issues have received substantial attention, the difficulties related to military spouse unemployment and underemployment have long existed in the background. Recently, multiple studies and surveys have turned the spotlight onto these issues and the individual and societal problems they present for military families.
12.9% and 4.3%
The percentages of anxiety disorders among American adults who, respectively, did not complete high school, and those with at least an undergraduate college degrees. These data points come from a recently released brief by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality -- Adults with Less Education Most Likely to Have a Past Year Anxiety Disorder (PDF).