41
The median number of outpatient visits (for any reason) for PTSD patients in the military health system, according to a recent RAND Corporation study -- Quality of Care for PTSD and Depression in the Military Health System: Phase I Report. According to a research brief based on the report, the median number of outpatient visits (for any reason) for depression patients is 30.
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. We’ve got plenty of exciting training opportunities coming soon!
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:
● Quality of Care for PTSD and Depression in the Military Health System: Phase I Report (RAND)
● Mapping the interplay among cognitive biases, emotion regulation, and depressive symptoms.
This same time last year I shared data from the calendar year 2013 (CY13) Department of Defense Suicide Event Report (DoDSER). The DoD releases the most up-to-date DoDSER report annually, which summarizes fatal and nonfatal suicide events for U.S. Service members. As someone who is highly interested in suicide prevention and intervention, I anxiously await the release of the new document every year.
Over the past several years I have seen the same bewildered expression on the faces of numerous Veterans as they struggle to understand and explain their own actions. After several months of treatment, one such client was finally able to articulate, “It’s like there’s a switch in my head that suddenly turns on and it takes everything I’ve got to fight the impulse to do something crazy.”