Deployment separation and reunifications are salient contexts that directly impact effective family functioning and parenting for military fathers. Yet, we know very little about determinants of postdeployed father involvement and effective parenting.
Post-deployed fathers' who served in the National Guard and Reserves, involvement and effective parenting were examined. Pre-intervention data were used from fathers participating in the After Deployment, Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT) randomized control trial.
In the families of the new cohort of war veterans now entering the civilian population in the United States are over two million young children (Cozza, Haskins & Lerner, 2013; Institute of Medicine, 2013).
Children of Service members who have experienced combat-related deployments are at increased risk for a variety of negative outcomes. This study sought to examine risk and promotive factors and the likelihood of negative outcomes in children aged 0 to 10 years.
Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) creates many challenges for families as well as for patients. Few intervention studies have considered both the needs of the person with TBI and his or her family and included both in the intervention process.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) creates challenges for both patients and their family members, yet few intervention programs have taken the needs of the whole family into consideration. This study examined the effectiveness of the Veterans' In-home Program on family member's well-being.
This study reports on the results of a program evaluation of the U.S. Navy New Parent Support Program (NPSP). NPSP is comprised of two components: center-based parenting classes and home-based visits.
The U.S. Navy New Parent Support Program (NPSP) aims to improve participants’ parenting skills, reduce their parenting stress, and help the Service Members to concentrate on their jobs. The purpose of the study was to evaluate participants’ perception of NPSP.