Children of deployed Service members may face many difficulties and concerns, but little research addresses child deployment perspectives. Children of newly-deployed National Guard Soldiers were interviewed about their perspectives on deployment and frequencies of responses were calculated.
Parental stress is believed to play a critical role in child maltreatment, and deployment is often stressful for military families.
It is important to understand the relationship between deployment and child maltreatment in order to provide the best programs for prevention and intervention.
Research studies have identified heightened psychiatric problems among veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF).
In this study, researchers aimed to determine incidence rates of diagnosed mental disorders in a cohort of Marines deployed to combat during OIF/OEF between 2001 and 2005 and to compare these with mental disorder rates in two historical and two contemporary military control groups from the Navy a
As a result of the high rate at which young Marines are getting married and divorced, a group of Navy chaplains created a new comprehensive three stage intervention program entitled, Intimate Relationships Awareness, Training, and Enrichment program (iRelate) to address the various relationship n
Marines tend to marry younger than civilians, and there is some evidence that they are underprepared for the demands of marriage, as indicated by the high divorce rates among young Marines.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders (SUD) frequently co-occur and affect a substantial proportion of military Veterans.
Parents often encounter multiple unique challenges and stressors in their day-to-day experience of raising children that may exacerbate certain mental health disorders.
Objectives. We described the risk for maltreatment among toddlers of US Army soldiers over different deployment cycles to develop a systematic response within the US Army to provide families appropriate supports. Methods.