This article reviews select literature that describes unique aspects of the challenges, roles, and responsibilities that family members may face as a result of the military culture and military family system.
When a service member is injured or dies in a combat zone, the consequences for his or her family can be profound and long-lasting.
Military mothers and their children cope with unique issues when mothers are deployed.
Social workers who treat children of deployed servicemembers may feel poorly prepared to work competently with military families and will benefit from understanding the immediate and long-term effects of parental deployment upon
Understanding the experiences of non-deployed military spouses is important to improve services to military families.
This exploratory study compares perceived stress, loss of psychosocial resources, PTSD symptoms and physiological measures (heart rate, blood pressure) among adolescents who had a family member deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom to both civilian peers and military peers with a nondeployed parent