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Note: The following text is a quote: Social Science Research Assists Navigation of ‘Human Terrain’ By Navy Lt. Jennifer Cragg Special to American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, May 18, 2009 – The Defense Department is funding research to help warfighters learn and adapt to the social and cultural norms in their deployment areas, a Navy program officer said in a May 13 webcast of “Armed with Science: Research and Applications for the Modern Military” on Pentagon Web Radio. “It's been a shift in the thinking of the Department of Defense away from conventional warfare practices to the asymmetric and irregular...

SEATTLE - "I've been going through this since I was 11 years old," the young woman said, "I'm backed up against the wall. Either I need to do this therapy or I need to die." "Well, why not die?" the therapist asked. "Well, if it comes down to it, I will." "Uh-huh, but why not now?" This aggressive cross-examination is a signature technique of what has become one of the most popular new psychotherapies in a generation. For years, psychotherapists have had a wide array of techniques to draw from in helping troubled patients. The most commonly discussed recent therapies...

Concurrent treatment for alcohol and tobacco dependence: are patients ready to quit both? Stotts AL, Schmitz JM, Grabowski J. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, U.T. Mental Sciences Institute, Substance Abuse Research Center, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 1300 Moursund Avenue, 77030, Houston, TX, USA The prevalence of smoking among alcohol abusers is high, yet little is known about this dual-dependency. This study examines mechanisms involved in changing both alcohol and tobacco use concurrently using the transtheoretical model (TTM) measures of change. Alcohol and tobacco dependent outpatients (N=115) entering a dual-substance dependence program were compared on baseline measures...