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Dr. Michael Anestis: Guns and Suicide in the Military
Description
We discuss:
- What's the most challenging part of being a military service person?
- What are the barriers to those in the military to seeking help?
- How to improve gun safety
- How to build a fulfilling a life outside of the military
- What are "Behavioral Activations?"
- How "Upstream thinking" can improve your life
- Why "moral injury" is just as painful as a physical injury
Dr. Anestis bio:
Michael David Anestis is an American clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Urban-Global Public Health in the Rutgers School of Public Health, as well as the executive director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center.
Contact: mda141@sph.rutgers.edu
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