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Parental Military Deployment and Children: What Have We Learned from More than a Decade of War?

Society of Clinical Psychology

A common saying in the military is that when one person joins the whole family serves. For many military families, geographic relocations, disrupted family routines, financial hardships, and fear of losing a loved one became a way of life. Effective support and intervention services for these two groups of children may in turn differ.

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Predictors of veterans’ well-being after leaving service

Society of Clinical Psychology

Although many individuals do well after leaving the military, the transition from military to civilian life can be challenging for some military veterans. Understanding how veterans fare when they leave service is important to inform early intervention and prevention efforts.

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NASW Observes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Month

Social Work Blog

1 Although PTSD has commonly been associated with the military and veteran populations, it affects people of all ages, communities, gender, and social economic background. Time Moves Different in Here: Clinical Implications for Working with Populations of Color, Complex Trauma and Dissociation in the Age of COVID 19 . June 3, 2022.

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“A Liminal Moment in Social Work”: Access NASW’s Social Work Journal Online

Social Work Blog

Furthermore, suicide disproportionately impacts such populations as American Indians/Alaska Natives, those who identify as LGBTQ+, military veterans, criminal justice system–involved people, and Black youth. These patterns underscore disturbing new trends that necessitate multifaceted and social justice–centered responses.

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Getting Better Outcomes from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatments

Society of Clinical Psychology

Our systematic review assessed high quality evidence for current interventions designed to augment first-line PTSD treatments (Metcalf et al., We clustered these 28 augmentation interventions into eight broad categories, based around the mechanism of augmentation, detailed in the table below. Possible therapeutic outcome.

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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

points on the CAPS-5) was not statistically or clinically significant. A brief exposure based treatment for PTSD versus Cognitive Processing Therapy: A randomized non-inferiority clinical trial. Military Medicine, 178 , 939-944. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 80(6), 968-981. 2012; Nacasch et al.,

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Roadmap toward a neuromodulatory treatment for PTSD and anxiety

Society of Clinical Psychology

2019) symptoms, there is currently not sufficient clinical trial data to support widespread adoption of these protocols. This evidence is typically the product of a yearslong series of increasingly large and well-controlled clinical trials that build upon the existing preclinical work identifying the mechanism of action.

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