This study examined the relation between adolescents’ coping, ability to regulate emotions (called “effortful control” in this study), parental support, and adjustment as reflected in their conduct problems and emotional symptoms.
Recent research suggests that psychiatric distress and combat trauma may result in poorer family functioning for Service members.
Researchers adapted the Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP) to include concepts and activities specific to mindfulness and mindful parenting (e.g., listening with full attention, emotional awareness of self and child).
Research on military families is often related to Service members' spouses and children.
Military spouses of a single Army Brigade Combat Team (BCT) who were enrolled in a family readiness group completed an online survey as their Service member (partner) prepared for deployment.
An examination of how work, family, friend, and community support were related to psychological distress (i.e., symptoms of depression, anxiety, and maternal guilt) among Active Duty U.S. Navy single mothers was conducted.
Strategies that military couples use to manage contradicting experiences or competing demands during deployment may affect their marital satisfaction and personal stress. Contradictions that deployed Soldiers' wives recalled experiencing were coded and organized into themes.
Previous experiences of trauma can greatly impact an individual's quality of life and relationships with others. Trauma in female partners of Soldiers was explored in relation to the relationship quality reported by the couple.
Children of deployed Service members may face many difficulties and concerns, but little research addresses child deployment perspectives. Children of newly-deployed National Guard Soldiers were interviewed about their perspectives on deployment and frequencies of responses were calculated.
Women were asked to complete a confidential domestic abuse screener during a routine prenatal visit at a Naval medical center. Data were used to estimate the prevalence of domestic violence and the characteristics of pregnant women reporting domestic violence.
Army parents with deployed spouses reported on the psychosocial functioning of their elementary school aged children using standardized psychosocial health and stress measures.
Scores were compared on a self-report measure of disordered eating in a sample of Service members who either: deployed with combat exposure, deployed without combat exposure, or did not deploy.
Substantiated maltreatment reports of 2,969 married, male Soldiers were used to explore the differences between first-time offenders who engaged in both child and spouse maltreatment (dual offenders) versus those who only engaged in child maltreatment (single offender).
The process underlying youth's development of responsibility was examined through an in-depth qualitative study.
Children may develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms following family violence at different rates based on demographic and prior trauma characteristics.
This study investigated how young children have been affected by single and multiple OIF/OEF deployments. Families were surveyed at two separate times assessing child behavior problems, along with individual and family characteristics.
Fathers' engagement with children is crucial for children's optimal development.
Pregnant women eligible for care on military bases completed questionnaires about deployment, community support, and conflict related to acceptance of pregnancy at three time points during pregnancy.
Children whose siblings were adjudicated were at risk for antisocial behaviors. The preventive effect of the modified Incredible Years Series program was examined in the study by randomly assigning high-risk preschoolers and their parents into either an intervention group or a control group.
Suspected child and spouse maltreatment reports were evaluated to determine referral source for Air Force families. Suspected Air Force child maltreatment reports were then compared to U.S. national child maltreatment data to explore how referral source differed among the samples.
This study examined interrelationships among combat exposure, family adjustment, and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including symptom clusters (reexperiencing and avoidance, withdrawal and numbing, arousaland lack of control, and self-persecution), in a sample of Operation Dese
Army Reservists and their family members were interviewed seven times over the first year of the Reservists’ return from Iraq.
This study’s focus was to determine whether combat exposure was associated with new-onset or continued alcohol misuse.
The psychological symptoms and martial satisfaction of women who were the wives of Army Veteran's who been deployed were assessed. This study ask husbands for self-reports of their experiences and wives their perception of these experiences.
Urban youths completed questionnaires in their school classrooms to examine how social interactions, trust, and shared vision that youth have with adults surrounding religion influence youth’s moral behavior. Religiously active youth report more frequent interactions with nonfamilial adults.