Families

Youth who experience the death of a parent may be at increased risk for later suicide.

This study assessed some ways in which schools, neighborhoods, nuclear families, and friendship groups jointly contribute to positive change during early adolescence. For each context, existing theory was used to develop a multiattribute index that should promote successful development.

An assessment of ways in which school, neighborhood, nuclear family, and friendship group contexts jointly contribute to positive change during early adolescence was conducted. Middle school students, parents, teachers, and staff from one county bordering with Washington D.C.

The present study explored the experiences of parents of children with Down syndrome at different phases of the life span.

Parents of children with Down syndrome face unique challenges at different stages of life. In this study, parents were divided into four groups based on the age of their children and answered questions regarding their coping strategies, hope, life satisfactions, and marital relationships.

Transactional cascades among child internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and fathers’ and mothers’ posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms were examined in a sample of families with a male parent who had been deployed to recent military conflicts in the Middle East.

The effects of parent combat exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms can impact families long after deployment.

When military service members deploy, they move outside the immediate boundary of their families. However, because boundaries are permeable, service members remain a psychological part of their families in spite of their physical absence.

Families must balance closeness and distance in boundaries with a deployed family member in order to maintain a relationship and cope with the separation in healthy ways.

This study examined the relationships between domains of stress (work-related, familyrelated, finances-related, health-related), coping style, substance use, and symptoms of depression with level of job functioning among women and men in the U.S. armed forces.