Psychosocial Screening in Children With Wartime-Deployed Parents

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Summary

Self-report data from parent and youth were utilized to investigate the effects of parental military deployment on adolescents' psychosocial difficulties (internalizing symptoms like depression and anxiety and externalizing symptoms like school and attention problems). Parents and youth reported more psychosocial issues when a parent Service members was currently deployed.

Citation
Aranda, M., Middleton, L. S., Flake, E., Davis, B. (2011). Psychosocial Screening in Children With Wartime-Deployed Parents. Military Medicine, 176, 402-407. doi:10.7205/milmed-d-10-00202