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’re past the holidays and now there are plenty more events and training opportunities coming up in the new year!
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:
● Professional Psychology: Research and Practice -- Special Issue: Research on Psychological Issues and Interventions for Military Personnel, Veterans, and Their Families
● PTSD Monthly Update - December 2014: Animated Whiteboard Videos on PTSD
Does anyone else have their fingers crossed that researchers will start finding evidence of which PTSD treatments work best with which specific patients? Happily, it seems like researchers are starting to ask those questions as well, and the recent article comparing Cognitive Processing Therapy standard protocol to Cognitive Processing Therapy - Cognitive Only may have inadvertently started to answer this question.
17% to 22%
and
24% to 28%
The increase in the percentage of, respectively, rural and urban veterans receiving psychotherapy from 2007 to 2010, according to an "early view" article just published online in the Journal of Rural Health -- Psychotherapy Utilization Among Rural and Urban Veterans From 2007 to 2010.
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.