Blog posts with the tag "Data"

Staff Perspective: The Impact of Stigma on Mental Health Seeking in People of Color

Although individuals from minority populations in the U.S. experience mental illness at similar rates as white individuals, symptoms are potentially more long-lasting and disabling among minority groups due to a variety of factors. Part of this may be due to difficulty obtaining appropriate mental health care in a timely way. Primarily, the broad context of systemic racism and social barriers that members of minority groups face play a role. 

Staff Perspective: Article Review - Screening for Suicide Risk in Adult Sleep Patients

This article provides rationale for utilizing a suicide screening procedure in a sleep medicine setting and offers suggested elements for such screening. The authors note that the connection between sleep problems and suicide risk has become well established, although the mechanisms of this relationship are not yet clear. Even though research on the relationship between sleep problems and suicide is not new (these authors note that the relationship was known nearly sixty years ago!), an increase in the amount and specificity of research examining sleep and suicide has been fairly recent and has led to the inclusion of sleep disturbance as both a risk factor and a warning sign for suicide risk.

Staff Perspective: Understanding the Relationship Between Supervisor Behaviors and Employee Sleep Functioning

Tim Rogers, Ph.D.

There is a growing demand for embedding mental health personnel in military operational settings to improve health and optimize the performance. Given the importance of sleep to both general health and occupational performance, this blog seeks to highlight relevant findings concerning how supervisor’s behaviors correspond to sleep outcomes for subordinates.

Staff Perspective: Developing a Picture of the Military’s “Invisible” Family Members - Male Military Spouses

Dr. Jenny Phillips

While the majority of military spouses are female, male military spouses represent a unique and often unrecognized segment of military dependents. In this blog, we examine what, if any, advances in understanding this population have been made through recent DoD demographics and research publications

Staff Perspective: Highlights from “What We Know about Military Family Readiness: Evidence from 2007-2017”

Marjorie Weinstock, Ph.D.

A lot has been written on the importance of promoting readiness in the military population, but this concept of “readiness” can be applied to military families as well. It is important that military family members are prepared to meet the challenges that accompany military life, which in turn, helps to ensure that their Service members can be “mission ready.” In March of 2018, “What We Know about Military Family Readiness: Evidence from 2007-2017” was published, which summarized the literature on military family readiness from the past 10 years. 

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