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 spent this entire week running two separate training events, on opposite sides of the country.
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:
● Exploring the Relationship between mTBI Exposure and the Presence and Severity of Postconcussive Symptoms among Veterans Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
● The effect of perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness on therapists' assessment of patients' suicide risk.
18.5%
and
4.2%
Respectively, the "estimated 12-month prevalence of mental illness" among adults age 18+ and the "estimated 12-month prevalence of serious mental illness" among adults -- excluding substance use disorders -- according to 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health data included in a recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report: Prevalence of Mental Illness in the United States: Data Sources and Estimates (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.
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:
● Clinician’s Trauma Update – February 2015 (National Center for PTSD)
● Role of morality in the experience of guilt and shame within the armed forces.