The percentage of Army recruits between 2001 and 2012 who "needed some kind of waiver to get in, most often for health reasons," according to an article in the Rand Review -- Army Enlistment Waivers in the Age of Legal Marijuana
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Increases in Positive Emotions as Precursors to Therapeutic Change.
● Premorbid traumatic stress and veteran responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
● Association Between Social Media Use and Self-reported Symptoms of Depression in US Adults.
This past December 7th marked the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. As a young psychologist, just out of internship in the Navy, I visited the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. This was before September 11, 2001 and I was hopeful that we were facing an extended period of peace in our country. Before entering the USS Arizona Memorial, I had thought of it as a historical war memorial from my grandparents’ generation. But that day, standing before the marble wall towering over me, listing the names of those who died, I was transformed.
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● The career transition experiences of military Veterans: A qualitative study.
● Military identity and planning for the transition out of the military.
● Anxiety sensitivity and posttraumatic stress symptoms: Associations among female Veterans with a history of military sexual trauma.
The percentage of veterans believed by the American public to be suffering from PTSD, according to a recent survey by the Cohen Veterans Network, "a not-for-profit philanthropic organization that serves post-9/11 veterans, military families and active duty service members through a nationwide system of mental health clinics". In reality, according to the survey, "PTSD impacts 11-20% of Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans, approximately 12% of Gulf War veterans, and 15% of Vietnam veterans."