An evaluation comparing the mental health and well-being of a sample of United States Air Force participants who were required to attend the deployment transition center (DTC) program to a weighted control group who did not attend the DTC program was conducted.
Introduction:Depression and anxiety disorders are highly prevalent among primary care patients. Group visits provide a way of delivering interventions to multiple patients at the same time.
In the current prospective observational study, the impact of short-term separation on female spouses of male military officers who were scheduled to participate in a resident training program was evaluated.
The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a yoga-based social-emotional wellness promotion program, Transformative Life Skills (TLS), on indicators of adolescent emotional distress, prosocial behavior, and school functioning.
Female service members’ family structures differ from the traditional male service member_female spouse composition of military families.
Children of Service members who have experienced combat-related deployments are at increased risk for a variety of negative outcomes. This study sought to examine risk and promotive factors and the likelihood of negative outcomes in children aged 0 to 10 years.
Increased numbers of women are being deployed to combat zones, yet little is known about their tobacco use and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Understanding who engages in parenting education programs and by which modes of delivery (e.g., in-person, online) allows providers to tailor programs to have the greatest impact on families.
The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of military families with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) specifically as it relates to relocation. Online survey methodology was used to gather information from military spouses with children with ASD.
Depression is a prevalent illness affecting youth across the nation. The study purpose was to examine depression and authoritarian parenting among youth from 12 to 17 years of age. A secondary data analysis of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health was performed in the present study.
There is growing interest regarding the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions among Veterans who experience depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Females currently make up 15% of U.S. military service members. Minimal attention has been paid to families of female National Guard members who have been deployed and their subsequent reintegration challenges.
Discussions of relationship transgressions—violations of relationship norms—are often difficult for couples to successfully navigate. Nevertheless, engaging in and resolving these discussions should promote intimacy.
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are being diagnosed more frequently, which affects both civilian and military families. This study investigated the services children in military families with ASD experience, particularly surrounding relocations.
Military families often have more distinct financial conditions than civilian households because of their military status. By analyzing survey data from the National Financial Capability Studies, this study compared the financial status of military households with civilian households.
Military families face unique challenges attributed to military-specific events such as deployment and relocation. Healthy family relationship may serve as a protective factor against these challenges.
Background:Childhood anxiety is associated with low levels of parental autonomy granting and child perceived control, elevated child emotional reactivity and deficits in child emotion regulation.
There are many approaches to parent training that can help improve parents' and children's functioning. This study explored the intervention of parent training focused on parental locus of control in relation to positive social adjustment in children.
This study investigated the importance of 2 resilience resources for service members' ability to deal with threat during deployment.
The purpose of our study was to learn about barriers to participation faced by families who had signed up for but not completed a community-based parenting program that was not part of a research project.
Intentional self-regulatory, or goal-directed, skills are essential for positivesocial relationships, success, and well-being during adolescence. Priortheory has suggested that mentoring relationships may provide a keyresource for building these skills.
Service members' family functioning may be negatively affected following the return of a Service member.
A number of US military Service Members and Veterans experience heavy drinking which may impair their military readiness.
A needs assessment on the current level of technology usage and knowledge and attitudes toward health and nutrition of military parents at two military bases was conducted.
Objective: This study examined youth stressor reactivity in the form of links between daily stressors and adolescents’ negative affect, physical health symptoms, and cortisol patterns. We also tested whether youth gender and parental warmth moderated these linkages.
The effectiveness of home-visiting programs in improving children’s health, developmental, and educational outcomes may depend, in part, on the quality of the relationships between home visitors and parents, one aspect of which is their working alliance (shared bonds, goals, and tasks).
Objective The spillover hypothesis suggests that childhood aggression results from spillover of interparental conflict to poor parenting, which promotes aggressive child behavior.
Using a sample of 438 parents in Los Angeles County, CA, this study examines the role of proximity to social services in child neglect. In an extension of social disorganization theory, it seeks to understand the potential sources of support in neighborhoods for families.
Military spouses are separated from one another for a variety of reasons, including deployment and residential training. This study investigated the effect of short-term separations on military wives’ well-being as well as the ways in which other factors are associated with well-being.
The current study examines the relationship between aspects of social service availability and child maltreatment. Specifically, the study uses negative binomial regression to estimate whether service availability, accessibility, and receipt are associated with physical child abuse and neglect.