The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, and useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● A Baseline Model of PTSD From the ACES Cohort.
● Florida's Red Flag Gun Law and Firearm and Nonfirearm Homicide and Suicide Rates.
● Household Firearm Ownership and Firearm Mortality.
How much advice should a provider provide, if the provider could provide advice? As behavioral health providers we often, with good intentions, get swept up in a mission of change with (for?) our clients. A client states problems they are experiencing and we clearly see what needs to be “fixed” and jump in with our EBP guns blazing. But perhaps, at times, we are a little too quick on the draw.
50%
The percentage of patients with eating disorders who report "sleep disturbance," according to a recent article in the International Journal of Eating Disorders -- The Integration of Sleep Research Into Eating Disorders Research: Recommendations and Best Practices.
Over the last few years, the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) has been hard at work developing a first of its kind training for the core components of cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention (CBT-SP). The resulting Second Life Island for Preventing Suicide, or SLIPS, is an asynchronous, avatar-based learning environment focused on reinforcing the concepts learned during traditional two-day CBT-SP workshops.
20%
The percentage of "Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan...diagnosed with a gastrointestinal (GI) disease," according to a recent article published in the journal Sage Open Medicine -- The relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder and gastrointestinal disease in United States Military Veterans.