A national train-the-trainer program to enhance police response to veterans with mental health issues: Primary officer and trainer outcomes and material dissemination.
Psychological Services, Vol 19(4), Nov 2022, 730-739; doi:10.1037/ser0000520Law enforcement officers (LEOs) may play the most important role in directing people in mental health crises into treatment versus incarceration. While most military veterans will never experience a crisis interaction with LEOs, they represent an important at-risk target group for whom to enhance LEO response. The evidence supporting LEO crisis training models includes important limitations that stem from jurisdiction-limited studies, and emphasize LEOs who volunteer for mental health training. The current study reports the primary outcomes of a na...
Source: Psychological Services - September 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Table for two: Perceptions of social support from participants in a weight management intervention for veterans with PTSD and overweight or obesity.
Psychological Services, Vol 19(4), Nov 2022, 719-729; doi:10.1037/ser0000577Individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at an increased risk of being classified as overweight or with obesity in part due to PTSD symptoms (e.g., sleep disturbance and social isolation) interfering with activity and healthy eating. MOVE!+UP is a 16-week behavioral weight management program, tailored to address such barriers for people with PTSD, by combining evidence-based weight loss education and support with cognitive behavior therapy skills to reduce PTSD symptom-based weight management barriers. This qualitative study examin...
Source: Psychological Services - September 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Differences in alcohol screening and alcohol problems among United States veterans based on military service history.
We examined if never-deployed/activated reserve veterans differed from active duty/deployed veterans in alcohol screening and misuse. Using pooled cross-sectional data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH; 2015–2019), we estimated the prevalence of past-year self-reported alcohol screening by a health care provider and measured DSM-IV alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence among U.S. veterans aged 18–49 years with at least one health care visit in the past year (N = 4,148). We used regression models to examine for differences in these outcomes between never-deployed/activated reserve veterans and active...
Source: Psychological Services - September 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A national train-the-trainer program to enhance police response to veterans with mental health issues: Primary officer and trainer outcomes and material dissemination.
Law enforcement officers (LEOs) may play the most important role in directing people in mental health crises into treatment versus incarceration. While most military veterans will never experience a crisis interaction with LEOs, they represent an important at-risk target group for whom to enhance LEO response. The evidence supporting LEO crisis training models includes important limitations that stem from jurisdiction-limited studies, and emphasize LEOs who volunteer for mental health training. The current study reports the primary outcomes of a national (U.S.) large-scale mandated train-the-trainer program to enhance VA L...
Source: Psychological Services - September 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Table for two: Perceptions of social support from participants in a weight management intervention for veterans with PTSD and overweight or obesity.
Individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at an increased risk of being classified as overweight or with obesity in part due to PTSD symptoms (e.g., sleep disturbance and social isolation) interfering with activity and healthy eating. MOVE!+UP is a 16-week behavioral weight management program, tailored to address such barriers for people with PTSD, by combining evidence-based weight loss education and support with cognitive behavior therapy skills to reduce PTSD symptom-based weight management barriers. This qualitative study examined veterans’ (n = 37) perceptions of social support relevant to weight man...
Source: Psychological Services - September 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Differences in alcohol screening and alcohol problems among United States veterans based on military service history.
We examined if never-deployed/activated reserve veterans differed from active duty/deployed veterans in alcohol screening and misuse. Using pooled cross-sectional data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH; 2015–2019), we estimated the prevalence of past-year self-reported alcohol screening by a health care provider and measured DSM-IV alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence among U.S. veterans aged 18–49 years with at least one health care visit in the past year (N = 4,148). We used regression models to examine for differences in these outcomes between never-deployed/activated reserve veterans and active...
Source: Psychological Services - September 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Children’s disaster trauma in Haiti: Configurations of similarities and dissimilarities in experiences.
Psychological Services, Vol 19(4), Nov 2022, 698-709; doi:10.1037/ser0000569The 2010 earthquake in Haiti, an urgent crisis, occurred in the context of persistent social dysfunctions, amplifying both the chronic poor living conditions and adversities for children and families. The present study sought to gain better understanding of the ways Haitian children respond during times of adversity. The House-Tree-Person (HTP) drawing test, culturally adapted for Haitians (Roysircar et al., 2017, 2019a, 2019b), was used to assess Resilience and Vulnerability in 75 Haitian children’s 225 drawings to map the spatial configurations...
Source: Psychological Services - September 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Children’s disaster trauma in Haiti: Configurations of similarities and dissimilarities in experiences.
The 2010 earthquake in Haiti, an urgent crisis, occurred in the context of persistent social dysfunctions, amplifying both the chronic poor living conditions and adversities for children and families. The present study sought to gain better understanding of the ways Haitian children respond during times of adversity. The House-Tree-Person (HTP) drawing test, culturally adapted for Haitians (Roysircar et al., 2017, 2019a, 2019b), was used to assess Resilience and Vulnerability in 75 Haitian children’s 225 drawings to map the spatial configurations of their trauma experiences in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake and con...
Source: Psychological Services - September 2, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
"Distinguishing the need for crisis mental health services among college students": Correction to Sapadin and Hollander.
Reports an error in "Distinguishing the need for crisis mental health services among college students" by Kate Sapadin and Beth L. G. Hollander (Psychological Services, Advanced Online Publication, Mar 18, 2021, np). In the original article, the Method heading that appears above the Crisis Walk-In Sessions heading should appear instead as the Results. All versions of this article have been corrected. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2021-25597-001). The increasing frequency of college students’ use of crisis mental health services at college counseling centers is exacerbating the existin...
Source: Psychological Services - August 26, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Validating military culture: The factor analysis of a military-related adaptation of acculturation in veterans.
Differences between military and civilian culture can impact a veteran’s ability to effectively navigate the transition to the civilian setting after separating from military service. However, systems providing psychological services to veterans lack reliable and valid methods of identifying the extent to which the dissonance between military and civilian cultures is associated with postseparation adjustment (e.g., ability to integrate profound deployment experiences into civilian life) and psychological outcomes. Utilization of a theory-driven, acculturation framework to assess military and civilian cultural affiliation...
Source: Psychological Services - August 12, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Perspectives on opioid misuse from public service psychology: An introduction.
Despite practicing in multiple venues where people with opioid use disorders require services, most public service psychology providers are not delivering, or being trained to deliver, treatment for substance use disorders. In addition, unintentional overdose and death from opioids continue, treatment options for chronic pain remain limited, and a larger discussion on the problem and role of drug and alcohol addiction in society remains largely unspoken. The articles received and included in this special section present some changes in the way that precipitants and prevention of opioid use disorder may be addressed and the...
Source: Psychological Services - August 9, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Outreach to facilitate return to VA care for veterans with serious mental illness: A mixed-methods evaluation of best practices.
Outreach to people with serious mental illness who are disengaged from treatment can facilitate return to care. However, little is known regarding what outreach strategies are effective. This mixed-methods evaluation assessed best practices for conducting outreach to Veterans with serious mental illness via the national Veterans Health Administration Re-Engaging Veterans with Serious Mental Illness program by comparing the strategies used by high-performing sites and low-performing sites. Quantitative data included the types and number of contact attempts used to reach Veterans. Qualitative data included interviews with cl...
Source: Psychological Services - August 5, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Provider perspectives on delivering dialectical behavior therapy via telehealth during COVID-19 in the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy (EBP) for repeated suicidal and nonsuicidal self-injury and Borderline Personality Disorder. There has been little research on the effectiveness or implementation of DBT via telehealth. However, literature has demonstrated that other EBPs delivered via telehealth are just as effective as in person. DBT differs from these EBPs in complexity, inclusion of group sessions, length of treatment, and focus on individuals at high risk for suicide. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused mental health care services across the country and Departmen...
Source: Psychological Services - August 5, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Culturally adapting youth mental health first aid training for Asian Americans.
Despite high rates of mental health challenges, Asian Americans are less likely to seek out and receive school-based mental health services (SBMHSs) than their non-Asian peers. The Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) training is an 8-hr manualized public education program designed to educate adults on recognizing common mental health challenges among adolescents and intervening. However, no published research has evaluated YMHFA among Asian Americans. We culturally adapted YMHFA for Asian Americans (Asian American parents and youth workers) and used a pretest/posttest design to evaluate its effectiveness. Specifically, w...
Source: Psychological Services - July 22, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
