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. In addition to our usual busy schedule, we’ve got lots of big events coming up in the next couple of weeks!
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:
● PTSD Monthly Update -- PTSD and Intimate Partner Violence
● Acceptability of mental health stigma-reduction training and initial effects on awareness among military personnel.
Clinicians are affected when a patient suicides. We may all be affected differently. Some of us may grieve the loss, some of us may question our competence, and some of us may fear seeing future suicidal or high-risk patients. There are also confounding variables that may arise following the suicide event that can complicate or extend the grief process, including legal/ethical issues, administrative requirements, and clinic procedures to name a few.
9,395,892
The total number of prescriptions written for "active component members" in 2014, according an article in the September issue of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center's Medical Surveillance Monthly Reports (MSMR) -- Rate of Prescriptions by Therapeutic Classification, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2014 (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. It was a shortened week due to the holiday on Monday, but we squeezed in plenty of events and we’ve got even more on the horizon!