Service Members

Deployment and combat exposure can put stress on both a Service member and their intimate relationships.

Objectives. We evaluated the Families OverComing Under Stress program, which provides resiliency training designed to enhance family psychological health in US military families affected by combat- and deployment-related stress. Methods.

Evidence-based programs are needed to help military families cope with the stress of deployment. Parent, child, and overall family well-being was compared before and after the Families OverComing Under Stress (FOCUS) program to examine its effect on resilience and psychological health.

Using conservation of resources theory, this study examines the role of resources in the relationship between work-induced family separation and workersintentions to leave their employment and how these relationships vary across ethnic groups.

Family separations can cause strain in military families and may influence Service members' decision to re-enlist or leave the military.

Objective: Identify unique correlates of clinically significant emotional abuse (CS-EA) in a large representative U.S. sample of men and women. Method: Active duty members of the U.S.

All types of abuse, including emotional abuse, can be influenced by risk factors from multiple ecological levels (e.g., family, community, workplace).

Domestic violence rates among Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are higher than those of the general population. Individuals who have been diagnosed with PTSD who seek couples therapy with their partners constitute an understudied population.

Mental health diagnoses following deployment can influence Veterans' relationships and risk for domestic violence.

Emerging literature shows a consistent pattern of relationship and psychological distress in spouses or partners of combat veterans with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).