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The negotiation of integrated home and school identities of 3 second grade Hispanic English language learners (ELLs) included in an English–dominant classroom are explored through sociocultural paradigms, wi

African American armed service personnel and their families bear great burden in times of war in their effort to protect and secure the nation's civil liberties and freedoms.

Trauma risk management (TRiM) is an intensive posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) psychoeducational management strategy based on peer-group risk assessment developed by the UK Royal Navy (RN).

Although support for corporal punishment of children remains widespread in the United States, there is a substantial body of research from psychology and its allied disciplines indicating corporal punishment

Male victims of interpersonal violence are often unrecognized because of certain views that interpersonal violence includes a power structure in society that favors males.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) by women against men has been the subject of much debate. Feminists typically argue that IPV is committed only by men against women. Others argue that violence is a human problem and women also commit much IPV.

This descriptive study examines how military deployments affect custodial grandparents who are appointed to care for grandchildren during this parental absence. Participants were recruited through pre-existing support groups in community agencies located near military installations.

There is a growing number of grandparents faced with the need to raise their grandchildren as a result of the military deployment of their own child. This is a descriptive study that examines the experiences of 23 grandmothers who are providing full time child care to their grandchildren.

It is important to understand mental health concerns among OEF/OIF Veterans in order for the Veterans Affairs (VA) department to better treat these individuals.

Background Veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) have endured high combat stress and are eligible for two years of free military service–related health care through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system, yet little is known about the burden and c

Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans were grouped by level of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology and compared on self-report meas

It is important to understand the relationship between deployment and child maltreatment in order to provide the best programs for prevention and intervention.

Parental stress is believed to play a critical role in child maltreatment, and deployment is often stressful for military families.

This exploratory study compares perceived stress, loss of psychosocial resources, PTSD symptoms and physiological measures (heart rate, blood pressure) among adolescents who had a family member deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom to both civilian peers and military peers with a nondeployed parent

Objective. The detrimental health effects of tobacco use have long been documented and accepted. Recent research has begun to explore the financial strain that tobacco places on those who use it  e.g. Mokdad, A.H., Marks, J.S., Stroup, D.F., Gerberding, J.L., 2004.

When soldiers return from combat and peacekeeping operations, the United States and many NATO and Partnership for Peace countries conduct some form of postdeployment mental health assessment.

Fifth graders participated in a study designed to examine the development of intentional self-regulation which is defined as selecting and enacting behaviors that attain goals that are pertinent to oneself.

In this research, the authors examined the development of intentional self-regulation in early adolescence, which was operationalized through the use of a measure derived from the model of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC).

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Baseline and three-year follow-up data from Service members from all branches of the military were used to describe new onset and persistence of self-reported posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in a large, population-based military cohort.

To describe new onset and persistence of self-reported post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in a large population based military cohort, many of whom were deployed in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Design: Prospective cohort analysis.

Veterans participated in a study examining how posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and alcohol abuse impact quality of life and mental health utilization. PTSD, and to a lesser degree depression, were associated with lower quality of life in multiple domains.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate levels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, alcohol abuse, quality of life, and mental health service utilization among returnees from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Military youth whose parent was deployed were recruited from one of several National Military Family Association (NMFA) camps. In this study, youth completed semi-structured interviews regarding uncertainty, loss, resilience, adjustment, and the ambiguity of having a parent deployed.

Parental deployment has substantial effects on the family system, among them ambiguity and uncertainty.

Background Gulf War veterans reported multiple psychological symptoms immediately after the war; the temporal course of these symptoms remains unclear.

Soldiers prior to an OIF deployment and Soldiers after an OIF deployment completed a survey to assess the mental health impact of childhood adverse events (e.g., psychological abuse, mental illness in the home) on combat troops.