483 civilian wives married to U.S. Army Active Duty husbands completed questionnaires to explore the impact of attributions of their spouses’ PTSD symptoms and combat exposure on marital satisfaction.
This study examined parents' provision of academic structure, and whether they implement it in an autonomy supportive or controlling manner, in relation to children's competence‐related beliefs, motivation, and academic behavior over the transition to middle school.
Characteristics of male and female Veterans in the Housing and Urban Development- Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program were examined with administrative data.
Researchers examined how the relational turbulence model applied to post-deployment couple reunions.
Child sexual abuse is a pervasive societal problem. The current prevention model tends to place the responsibility on the very young people that are being victimized. Instead, there needs to be a more comprehensive approach that targets all contexts of a young person’s life.
Military-Extension Adventure Camps provided an opportunity for military personnel who recently returned from deployment to reconnect with their teenagers. The camps used the Campfire Curriculum, and nightly campfire programs from the Blue to You curriculum for military families.
The program described in the present article focused on service member parents and their teenage children participating in camps together.
Interviews and focus groups were conducted with principals, counselors, and teachers at military-connected public schools to explore the broad impact of military-connected student enrollment on schools and educators.
This descriptive report, for 2009-2012, compares the prevalence of overweight and obese children and adults in the Military Health System (MHS) population to rates of the general U.S. population.
Military wives face numerous stressors (e.g., frequent moves, spouse’s deployment) that may impact their mental health and also face several barriers to treatment. A sample of military wives was surveyed in order to describe their mental health needs and treatment barriers.
Objective: An Internet-based survey sought information about barriers to mental health services for military wives. Methods: On the basis of qualitative work, an Internetbased program was created to identify military wives who may have major depressive disorder.
Individuals grieve the death of a loved one due to military combat differently; however, social support and healthy coping are likely important to the grief process.
The purpose of this longitudinal case study was to describe the grief process within a military context of two parents who lost a son in combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The couple was interviewed three times during the year following the death of their son.
The association of military service history with past-year suicidal ideation and past-30-days mental distress in a sample of individuals was examined. Military service was defined as current or former active-duty service or National Guard or Reserve service.
Veterans from OEF/OIF/OND participated in a clinical trial of expressive writing; Veterans Affairs (VA) users were compared to nonusers in terms of demographic and clinical characteristics.
A history of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is common among military members who served in Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn (OEF/OIF/OND).
Survey data were utilized to examine the influence of military connectedness and parental deployment on adolescent mental health (i.e., feeling sad or hopeless, suicidal ideation, well-being, and depressive symptoms).
Moral injury entails emotional distress associated with perceived violations of one’s moral code and has been proposed to be a possible contributor to self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITB) among military personnel.
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with female members of the U.S. National Guard to learn about their experiences with deployment to combat zones and the following reintegration.
This study examined the relationship between adolescents’ prosocial and aggressive behaviors and moral affect and cognition (feelings of guilt, shame and empathy, and perspective taking), negative emotionality, and biases in thinking.
Objective: The aims of this study were 2-fold: to provide a brief introduction to the prospective longitudinal Great Smoky Mountains Study and review recent findings; and to use this sample to conduct an epidemiologic analysis of common childhood anxiety disorders.
A noninferiority randomized trial design compared the efficacy of two self-help variants of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program: an online version and a self-help workbook.
Participants from 11 rural counties in western North Carolina participated in a prospective longitudinal study aimed at characterizing developmental patterns, prevalence, and comorbidity of childhood anxiety disorders and their relationships to adult functioning.
A random sample of 10,250 Active Duty U.S. Military personnel who were single and sexually active were used to identify risk factors for self-reported sexually transmitted infection (STI) within the past 12 months.
Since 2001, the rapid pace of deployments of military personnel who are parents has created additional concern for the emotional and behavioral health of their children.
The population prevalence of asthma, bronchitis, and sinusitis were investigated among Veterans deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq compared to nondeployed Veterans (N = 20,563; 64% deployed, 36% nondeployed). Data for this study came from the National Health Survey for a New Generation of U.S.
The current study examined the relationships among self-reported depression severity, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity and grade point average (GPA) among student service members and veterans.
There were 325 OEF/OIF Veterans who completed questionnaires designed to examine whether presence of a spouse or partner buffers the relationship between mental health symptoms and alcohol consumption.
Military Children who have experienced multiple deployments of one or both parents are more likely to have emotional and behavioral difficulties compared with their civilian peers (e.g., Chandra et al., 20