Families

Deployment affects not just the service members, but also their family members back home.

Little is known about how family processes during a deployment (i.e. household routines and rituals, communication) affect the Service member and each family member during reintegration.

This study drew on the relational turbulence model to investigate how the interpersonal dynamics of military couples predict parents’ reports of the reintegration difficulty of military children upon homecoming after deployment.

Various aspects of couples' relationships can affect their children in different ways.

The current study examined the impact of active duty service members’ symptoms following a combat deployment on child mental health symptoms.

Marital distress, aggression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms are commonly linked in research. However, less often is the consideration of the impact on children, and specifically, their increased mental health symptoms.