The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Military Traumatic Brain Injury: The History, Impact, and Future.
● A review of the referral process for evidence-based psychotherapies for PTSD among veterans.
● Evaluation of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Acute Stress Disorder VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines Training.
Once upon a time, in the post-disco 1980’s, Madonna was singing about material girls and Vincent Felitti was trying to figure out why so many people were prematurely dropping out of his weight loss program at Kaiser Permanente’s Department of Preventative Medicine in San Diego. The weight loss clinic was a state-of-the-art program designed to help those who were 100 to 600 pounds overweight. Inexplicably, many were dropping out even though they had successfully been losing weight.
The number of veterans who have experienced homelessness, according to a recent article in the journal Psychological Medicine -- Prevalence, correlates, and mental health burden associated with homelessness in U.S. military veterans.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Behavioral health and treatment-seeking behaviors among deployed vs. nondeployed service members: How impactful is deployment on well-being?
● Resilience enhancing programs in the U.S. military: An exploration of theory and applied practice.
● Implementation Strategies Used and Reported in Brief Suicide Prevention Intervention Studies.
Today you’re meeting a new patient. They present with a history of combat trauma and report significant sleep disturbances including problems falling asleep because they fear they will have another nightmare.
This may feel familiar to you, and there is a good reason for that. Nightmares are incredibly common after a traumatic event, with some estimates suggesting posttraumatic nightmares occur in 90% of patients with PTSD.