In a pilot study we examined the effect of a one-week Operation Purple Camp intervention with children and adolescents (N = 48) in military families on their self-perception of social acceptance, athletic competence, and global self-worth.
Parents play an important role in helping children regulate their emotions. By observing mothers and children interacting when the children were disappointed, researchers examined the relation between maternal use of emotion regulation strategies and children’s expression of negative emotions.
Social relationships are important to health outcomes. The postdeployment family reintegration literature focuses on the role of the civilian family in facilitating the transition from Active Duty military deployment to civilian society.
Air Force child and spouse maltreatment reports were utilized to examine how the implementation of revisions to maltreatment criteria influenced overall rates of substantiation and one-year recidivism.
Objective: The U.S. Air Force recently implemented system-wide changes that both (a) clarified the criteria used to determine when family maltreatment has occurred and (b) made the process by which these decisions are made more consistent.
Extant research is ambivalent about whether or not working outside the home provides mothers of children with special needs a buffer against the stressful effects of caregiving. The empirical evidence of a respite effect is based primarily on small, non-probability samples.
We examined the direct relationships between parent and child emotion regulation (ER) strategy use during the transitionary and understudied developmental periods of middle childhood through to adolescence.
Recent studies have confirmed that repeated wartime deployment of a parent exacts a toll on military children and families and that the quality and functionality of familial relations is linked to force preservation and readines
Although military children are typically as resilient as the general child population, the ongoing conflict has exposed military children to unusu
This article addresses issues associated with the treatment of substance use disorders (SUD) in the U.S. veteran population.
As the newest generation of veterans returns home from the fronts in Afghanistan and Iraq, increased attention is being paid to their postdeployment mental health adjustment as well as the interpersonal se
Children of deployed Service members may experience a variety of difficulties, including emotional and behavioral concerns.
This study examined deployment effects in children and spouses of National Guard troops using a longitudinal design to assess 18 children (ages 6 to 17 years) and 13 non-deployed spouses before, during, and after deployment.
National Guard members are often faced with the difficult task of finding a new job following deployment. Service memebrs who were employed or unemployed at 45-60 days after demobilization were compared on several variables (e.g., demographics, deployments, mental and physical health).
National Guard Service members face deactivation from active duty soon alter they return to the United States and rapid entry into the civilian workforce; therefore, it is important to examine employment among these Veterans. Methods:The sample included 585 National Guard service members.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can cause relationship difficulties, particularly when symptoms are not well understood.
Romantic partners of combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) report elevated relationship and psychological distress.
Psychology and the U.S. military have a long history of collaboration. The U.S.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may strongly impact Service members' relationships.
Relationship adjustment and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms were assessed across two time points in a sample of 313 married or partnered National Guard soldiers recently returned from combat duty in Iraq.
Medical record data were used to examine the association between deployment length and mental health diagnoses among children and adolescents of US Army Active Duty personnel who had experienced or not experienced deployment.
Following the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States, there has been increased utilization of the Reserve Components (RC) by the military to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Objective: To characterize the risk of mental health diagnoses among children of US military personnel associated with parental deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). Design: Nonrandomized, retrospective cohort study (2003-2006).
This study evaluated relational uncertainty and interference from partners as potential mechanisms linking depressive symptoms with relationship satisfaction.
In contrast to romanticized portrayals of reunion after deployment, U.S. military personnel may contend with the harsh reality of both depressive symptoms and upheaval in their romantic relationships during the postdeployment transition.