Publications by authors named "David Wittkower"
The Department of Veteran Affairs established Readjustment Counseling Service (RCS) to meet the mental health needs of active-duty service members, veterans, and their families. A diverse therapeutic skill set is needed to serve this complex population. To assess training needs, a national mixed-methods needs assessment consisting of a survey for RCS counselors and focus groups among counselors, RCS educational trainers, and national leadership was conducted.
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- Patient microaggressions significantly impact healthcare practitioners, particularly in psychiatry, highlighting a need for effective responses.
- A scoping review analyzed articles from major databases and found 27 studies with recommendations and training techniques to help healthcare professionals address these microaggressions.
- While the review shows that various strategies and training models exist, further evaluation is required to assess their effectiveness in real-world clinical settings.
Committed relationships and substance use: recent findings and future directions.
Curr Opin Psychol
December 2019
Recent research on substance use in committed relationships covers three general areas. First, partners tend to be concordant for substance use, and concordance is at least partially the result of partner influence (or convergence). Second, substance use (particularly discrepant use) predicts relationship outcomes such as lower relationship quality and greater conflict, intimate partner aggression, and risky sex.
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