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This article tells the story of Staff Sgt. James Ownbey, a Marine who served in Iraq as an explosive ordinance disposal technician in 2007, and two other deployments who now suffers from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and numerous physical ailments.

Since the war began in October 2001, there have been periodic reports about substance abuse, depression, domestic violence, suicide, homelessness and violent crime among traumatized veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq. High unemployment in a bad economy has merely compounded their troubles.

This 21-page report provides a description of the services offered by the Defense Center of Excellence (DCoE) for Psychological Health (PH) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and its accomplishments in the years 2007-2008. DCoE's research mission is to coordinate innovative, evidence-based PH and TBI investments across DoD and other government agencies to meet both immediate and long-term needs associated with prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and outreach for warriors and their families.

This reports highlights the challenges faced by veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including the prevalence of TBI, homelessness, PTSD, etc. It also offers lessons learned and suggestions for best practices in addressing the needs of this growing population.

This report highlights the psychological toll of deployments involving prolonged exposure to combat-related stress over multiple rotations and how these types of deployments may be disproportionately high compared with the physical injuries of combat.

This article strives to balance fairly and effectively the voices and needs of individuals with disabilities with those of service providers who provide either disability or domestic violence/sexual assault services. The intent of this article to is to highlight opportunities for positive change, hopefully in a way that will help empower service providers as well as victims and survivors with disabilities.

The research examined reasons for moving to other countries for commercial sex work, the social structure of the commercial sex and trafficking business, economic aspects of smuggling, trafficking, and prostitution, and understand the social patterns for these Chinese women.

This technical report provides a Spanish-language literature review of resources on sex trafficking from Latin America.

This Winter 2010 newsletter addresses the bystander intervention approach to sexual violence prevention. Articles include personal stories of bystander intervention, deconstructing gender norms and male dominance through bystander intervention, and spotlights programs and campaigns.

This study brief discusses best practices in forensic interviewing for child sexual abuse victims. The article gives particular attention to protecting the rights of children while still achieving better case outcomes. It also includes a section on tailoring interviews for special populations.