This study investigated associations among one partner's relational satisfaction and the other partner's style of attachment and emotional communication.
Objectives: 1. Describe the differences between Active Duty and Reserve Component military forces and how these differences may affect the emotional and behavioral well-being of military children and adolescents.
More than 125 years have passed since William T. Sherman first observed that “war is hell”; since that time, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the effect of war on the young children of soldiers.
Shifting roles (i.e., husband/wife, caretaker) within a couple can be difficult to adapt to, especially for married couples experiencing lengthy military deployments.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of applying role-exit theory concepts in the counseling of military couples experiencing marital discord following extended periods of deployment.
Employers' health insurance coverage for legal spouses places unmarried couples at a disadvantage for obtaining coverage.
An in-depth exploration of ten Vietnam Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and their live-in female partner’s perceptions about family participation in mental health treatment was conducted.
"In an effort to be responsive to the often complicated, multilayered family issues of people living with posttraumatic stress disorder, many well-intentioned therapists create a variety of family-based services— only to be discouraged when participation is very low.
Traumatized military couples represent a new population for the application of attachment theory constructs.
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.
The present study describes the sources of Air Force (AF) Family Advocacy Program referrals (N = = 42,389) for child and spouse maltreatment between 2000 and 2004. Sources of referrals were stable over time, with military sources accounting for the majority of both child and spouse referrals.
As the workforce in state-funded pre-kindergarten programs continues to grow in the United States, the promise of these and other early education opportunities (e.g., Head Start) depends in large part on in-
This study’s focus was to determine whether combat exposure was associated with new-onset or continued alcohol misuse.
Context High rates of alcohol misuse after deployment have been reported among personnel returning from past conflicts, yet investigations of alcohol misuse after return from the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are lacking.
Army Reservists and their family members were interviewed seven times over the first year of the Reservists’ return from Iraq.
The “Global War on Terrorism” has resulted in reservists being deployed at an ever increasing rate.
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
This study examined interrelationships among combat exposure, symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and family adjustment in a sample of male and female Operation Desert Storm veterans (N = 1,512).
Service members who presented to the U.S. Military Hospital Kuwait for an initial appointment participated in a study on the feasibility of using validated mental health screening instruments for deployed Operation Iraqi Freedom military personnel.
Introduction: This study reports on the feasibility of using validated mental health screening instruments for deployed Operation Iraqi Freedom military personnel. Methods: For a 3-month period in 2005, all service members (N = 296) who initially presented to the U.S.
Substance abuse has been cited as a potential risk factor for child maltreatment.
Although substance abuse has consistently been linked to child maltreatment, no study to date has described the extent of substance abuse among child maltreatment offenders within the military. Analysis of U.S.
Deployment can be a stressful time for children, particularly young children who may not understand what is happening. For this study, parents and childcare providers of children ages 18 months to five years old were surveyed regarding their child’s behavior during a parental deployment.
Objective: To describe the effect of wartime military deployments on the behavior of young children in military families. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Childcare centers on a large Marine base.
In this study, researchers aimed to determine incidence rates of diagnosed mental disorders in a cohort of Marines deployed to combat during OIF/OEF between 2001 and 2005 and to compare these with mental disorder rates in two historical and two contemporary military control groups from the Navy a
Research studies have identified heightened psychiatric problems among veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF).
Participants were recruited during childhood and interviewed in early adolescence and adulthood to assess the association between childhood depressed mood and adolescent and young adulthood alcohol use.