Since September 11, 2001, over 2 million U.S. service members have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, resulting in hundreds of thousands of military-connected children (MCC) having experienced a parental deployment.
Schools can be an effective setting to deliver interventions to promote well-being among children. One such intervention for military-connected children, Staying Strong with Schools, was tested for its effectiveness in a civilian school.
We conducted semi-structured focus groups with men in the United States Air Force (N = 39) to examine fathers' access to parenting information during the transition to parenthood, and to determine methods for engaging fathers in intervention.
Fathers' access to parenting information during the transition to parenthood and how best to engage fathers in parenting intervention programs were explored.
In recent decades, psychologists have been actively involved in the development and evaluation of parenting programs and are now turning their attention to the implementation of these evidence-based programs in real-world contexts.
Evidence-based parenting intervention programs have ample research to support their effectiveness; however, these programs are not being widely used in community settings.
This study examines the association between veterans’ physical and mental health symptoms and perceptions of adverse child and relationship functioning.
Veterans' family relationships may be impacted by deployment and its effects on Veteran mental and physical health.
This study examines military adolescents’ experiences of managing private information within their families during a parental deployment. Thirty-eight adolescents were interviewed about how they and their families managed private information across the deployment cycle.
This study sought to explore adolescents' perspectives of how private information within their family was managed during their parents' military deployment.