Military Spouses

This study addresses the abuse experiences of immigrant women married or engaged to U.S. servicemen and the response of military  social service and legal systems.

Objectives.

Separations enforced by, or which incorporate, psychological threat have the potential to cause the development of immediate and long-term psychological and psychiatric symptoms in family members.

Data are reported from a sample of 2,991 spouse physical abusers who received Air Force Family Advocacy Program (FAP) services and who volunteered to complete program evaluation measures that were administ

To date, more than 1.3 million service members have served in the Global War on Terrorism.

The current study examined rates of alcohol misuse among National Guard (NG) service members and their spouses/partners, concordance of drinking behaviors among couples, and the effects of alcohol misuse, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on three measures of family functioning

Prior studies suggest racial/ethnic differences in the associations between alcohol misuse and spouse abuse.

Traumatized military couples represent a new population for the application of attachment theory constructs.

Employers' health insurance coverage for legal spouses places unmarried couples at a disadvantage for obtaining coverage.

Army Reservists and their family members were interviewed seven times over the first year of the Reservists’ return from Iraq.