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The authors examine the relationship between specific posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and interpersonal aggression (verbal, psychological, and physical) among male Veterans completing a residential PTSD treatment program.

This study examined the relation between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) severity and aggression (verbal, psychological, and physical aggression) in a longitudinal dataset.

Data from a population-based study including civilians, Veterans Active Duty, and National Guard or Reserves members were used to compare the health status of women who have served in the military to that of civilians.

Background: Women who have served in the military are a rapidly growing population. No previous studies have compared directly their health status to that of civilians. Purpose: To provide estimates of several leading U.S. health indicators by military service status among women.

In-depth interviews with male Veterans from Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) and used to explore the reasons for miscommunication during deployment between Service members and their civilian family members.

Twenty Reserve component (Army and Marines) and Army National Guard male veterans of Operational Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom discuss their deployment and postdeployment family reintegration experiences.

Data from the Millennium Cohort Study were used to examine military women's mental health outcomes (depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD]) following deployment.

Previous research has shown that military women often experience potentially severe health outcomes following deployment. Data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a 21-year longitudinal study examining the health effects of military service, were used to examine this issue.

Focus group and interview data were utilized to examine perceptions of the benefits, feasibility, barriers and logistical considerations of implementing a family education program (SAFE: Support And Family Education) in rural outpatient clinics (CBOCs).

The Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system is dedicated to providing high-quality mental health services to all veterans, including the nearly 40% of enrolled veterans living in rural areas.

This study examined the relationships of mindfulness, a form of focused self‐awareness, with physical and psychological health.

A workshop was held for school counselors to train them on best practices for helping children with a deployed parent. Attendees participated in discussion groups about their own experiences and rated the usefulness of the training for their careers.

Purpose: With nearly 3 million US troops having deployed for Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn (OEF/OIF/OND) since the conflicts began, an estimated 2 million children have been separated from a parent.

The risk of incarceration for male Veterans compared with non-Veterans was examined through the use of national surveys of jail and prison inmates.

Using data from national surveys of jail and prison inmates conducted in 2002 and 2004, the authors found that male veterans in the age group that entered military service in the early years of the All Volunteer Force (AVF) were at greater risk of incarceration than nonveterans of similar age and

Combat-injured Service members diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury participated in a study examining the relationships among bodily injuries, traumatic stress, and post-concussion symptoms.

Interviews with female spouses or fianceés of deployed male Service members were conducted to examine relational coping during spousal deployment.

Wartime deployment involves prolonged separation and creates uncertainty, fear, and disorganization in families (M. J. Peebles-Kleiger & J. H. Kleiger, 1994). This study examined how military wives/fiancées reported coping with the demands they associated with spousal deployment.

Objective: To examine the relations among bodily injuries, traumatic stress, and postconcussion symptoms in a sample of combat-injured US service members who sustained a mild traumatic brain injury.

U.S. Army Reservists and partners of U.S. Army Reservists were interviewed about their relationships after the Reservists returned from a year-long deployment in Iraq.

This study examines the romantic relationships of reservists following wartime deployment. Members of an Army Reserve unit and their partners participatedin seven waves of interviews in the year following the reservists’ return from deployment.

Nearly, 2 million children in the United States live in military families. Throughout all branches of the U.S.

Male Veterans with life expectancies of less than 12 months and nine of their family members completed a semi-structured interview to assess their spiritual needs, the spiritual care they have received, and their satisfaction with spiritual care.

Spiritual care is an important domain of palliative care programs across the country and in the Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System specifically.

The records of married U.S. Air Force personnel were reviewed to compare rates of spouse abuse before and after combat deployments to Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF).

Objective: To conduct the first population-based study comparing spouse abuse rates before and after combat-related deployments during Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom among married U.S. Air Force personnel.

Active Duty military personnel participated in a study examining the role of spirituality in mental health problems. Researchers tested whether spirituality moderates the relationships among combat exposure, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suicidality.

Understanding the role of spirituality as a potential coping mechanism for military personnel is important given growing concern about the mental health issues of personnel returning from war.