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This special issue of Military Medicine highlights the recent progress made in the epidemiology, prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and research on PTSD, depression, substance use disorders, and TBI. It serves as a benchmark of the progress made in military medicine after a decade of unconventional warfare.

This study involved fifteen elite athletes aged 16–23 years who participated in one of three focus group discussions. Participants’ written and verbal data suggested that stigma was the most important perceived barrier to seeking help for young elite athletes. Other notable barriers were a lack of mental health literacy, and negative past experiences of help-seeking. Facilitators to help-seeking were encouragement from others, having an established relationship with a provider, pleasant previous interactions with providers, the positive attitudes of others, especially their coach, and access to the internet. 

Authors discuss athletes’ psychiatric risks after injury; expression of pain; risks of having an identity driven solely by sports; distress tolerance and provide tips for making a differential diagnosis and providing treatment. This information is based on experience treating athletes, supplemented by relevant literature. Includes “Athletes and suicide: Who is at risk?”

This is a special issue of National Council Magazine, produced by the National Council for Behavioral Health features articles by leading experts and researchers in the suicidology field and provides a summary of knowledge to date on suicide prevention. 

This article discusses key questions about suicide bereavement and postvention as it is now and may develop in the future. These questions include “What are the needs of suicide survivors and what is postvention from a clinical perspective and from a public health perspective?” It ends with recommendations to strengthen the possibilities of postvention as prevention.

This issue features an opinion piece by president Lanny Berman discussing correlates of suicide, how they affect trends and difficulties associated with determining which correlates can explain increases and decreases in rates.
The newsletter also includes the first column in a series, Young Researchers, prepared by Jennifer McLaughlin, PhD Student at the University of Stirling, Scotland, describing her study, Understanding intimate partner abuse and suicide risk; reports from new IASP special interest groups Prevention of Intentional Poisoning with Pesticides and Suicidal Behavior in Adolescents; and a column by Dr. Dan Reidenberg on the revised US National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. 

This article in the publication, Principal Leadership, discusses the link between bullying and suicide and prevention strategies involving systematic change to school climate.   

The following manuals are undergoing revisions and will be made available as soon as they have been completed. STAR-Center recommends that school districts, working closely with their community resources, prepare for tragedies by developing policies and procedures that may be activated on very short notice. This manual is intended to help school personnel prepare for the possibility of a tragedy, including suicide, within the school community.

This article describes the problem of contagion and the ways that administrators can act to prevent it by establishing a crisis team, recognizing and monitoring at-risk students, and mobilizing community-wide responses.

This article gives an overview of what current research says about comorbidity of drug use disorders and other mental illnesses. The research report series is part of NIDA’s efforts to better understand how this type of comorbidity works, based on the limited research available on the subject.