Over the past decade, studies into the impact of wartime deployment and related adversities on service members and their families have offered empirical support for systemic models of family functioning and a more nuanced understanding of the mechanisms by which stress and trauma reverberate acro
Military families experience unique stressors and may benefit from increases in resilience. Researchers investigated a brief, strengths-based intervention focused on enhancing military family resilience through increased communication, parenting skills, collaboration, flexibility, and routines.
As increasing numbers of women are recruited into the U.S. Navy, retention of women (especially in combat occupational specialties) lags behind men. Data indicate that women and men leave the Navy because of impact on their family.
Societal gender roles and norms may negatively influence female Service members' persistence in military career advancement, thus impacting retention of female Service members in the military. This study examined work and family expectations among 267 U.S. Naval Academy students.
Perceived social support is negatively associated with severity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but the literature lacks data about specific sources of support.
There is evidence that perceived level of social support is negatively associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). An examination of the relationships between PTSD and perceived support from different sources were conducted in the study using two distinct samples of Service members.
Although military deployment has been suggested as a possible cause of increases in domestic violence, little is known about it. The purpose of this study was to determine if deployment of 6 months to Bosnia predicted early postdeployment domestic violence.
It is important to study the relationship between deployment and domestic violence. By administering anonymous surveys to both deployed and non-deployed male Service members, the study examined the relationship between deployment and domestic violence.
Objective: Parenting through the deployment cycle presents unique stressors for military families.