The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Soul wounds among combat trauma survivors: Experience, effects, and advice.
● A Network Analysis of Risk Factors for Suicide in Iraq/Afghanistan-era Veterans.
● Combat stress in a small-scale society suggests divergent evolutionary roots for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms.
Recently I consulted on a case where a client with insomnia insisted on tracking her sleep with a wearable monitor (think Fitbit or Apple Watch).She soon realized that her sleep tracker was actually increasing her anxiety about sleep. She became more aware of every toss and turn during the night. Ultimately, the client decided to forego the tracker and use only a paper sleep log each night and morning. Her anxiety decreased overnight (pun intended) and she starting falling asleep faster and staying asleep longer.
The number of Veterans experiencing homelessness "(o)n a single night in January 2020," according to the 2020 Annual Homeless Assessment Report Part 1 to Congress, released March 18 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Brief behavioral treatment for insomnia: Treatment schedule and training feasibility in the military.
● Examining the development of PTSD symptoms in individuals who witness acute stress reaction on the battlefield.
● CBT and CFT for Chronic Pain.
Newer research is examining not just the overall effect of treatment strategies for insomnia, but how certain approaches may produce different symptom specific effects during the course of treatment. The purpose of this blog will be to review the theory, interventions, and research findings about how these treatment approaches may produce symptom specific effects during the course of insomnia treatment.