Early Childhood (under 5 years)

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

This article reports a meta-analysis on social skills training as a measure for preventing antisocial behavior in children and youth.

Objectives: 1. Describe the differences between Active Duty and Reserve Component military forces and how these differences may affect the emotional and behavioral well-being of military children and adolescents.

This report summarizes the findings of a study supported by the Military Family Research Institute and the DOD Quality of Life Office that focused on the adaptations of adolescents in military families when a parent is deployed.

When a service member is injured or dies in a combat zone, the consequences for his or her family can be profound and long-lasting.

A comprehensive mission for schools is to educate students to be knowledgeable, responsible, socially skilled, healthy, caring, and contributing citizens.

How educators and researchers define and study school effectiveness continues to be shaped by two divided camps.

The concept of school engagement has attracted increasing attention as representing a possible antidote to declining academic motivation and achievement.

Social workers who treat children of deployed servicemembers may feel poorly prepared to work competently with military families and will benefit from understanding the immediate and long-term effects of parental deployment upon

Much research on children in military families has taken a deficit approach—that is, it has portrayed these children as a population susceptible to psychological damage from the hardships of military life, s