Adolescence (12-18 years)

Despite evidence that children of male war veterans with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD

231 Croatian adolescents whose fathers had severe military-related PTSD and who were admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit participated in a study examining the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of suicide attempts.

In 1987, data were collected on 2,731 young men and their parents as part of the Army Communications Objectives Measurement System (ACOMS) survey to understand factors associated with mili

2,731 young men and one of their parents participated in a telephone survey to understand factors associated with military enlistment.

Some Navy families are subject to unusual stress in that the active duty parent may be deployed for several months at a time.

118 Navy and 103 civilian children and adolescents who were psychiatrically hospitalized over a three-year period participated in a study to examine deployment as a risk factor for hospitalization. 60% of Navy youth who were hospitalized had a Navy parent whose job required long-term deployment.

Children of incarcerated parents are exposed to factors that place them at risk for delinquency.

This study, like numerous others, found parental absence to be associated with problematic behavior on behalf of children.

The decade of the 1980s witnessed more than a doubling in the number of incarcerated individuals.

It is generally argued that parental use of specific discipline techniques (e.g., reasoning vs power assertion) differentially affects a child's internalization. This article offers an expanded formulation.