The article presents research comparing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms in a sample of Canadian veterans who had been deployed between 1990 and 1999 to a sample who had not been deployed (referred to here as “nondeployed”).
Research on child development shows that children’s sexual identity generally develops during early adolescence. Generally, by age 10 or 11, youth are aware of their lesbian, gay, or bisexual sexual orientation.
Suicide is currently the third leading cause of death for youth between the ages of 15 and 24, and each year, nearly 4,600 youth ages 10 to 24 commit suicide3. Even more troubling, for every completed suicide among youth ages 15 to 24, there are between 100 and 200 suicide attempts.
In this study, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of an 8-week mindfulness training for children aged 8–12 and parents (who received a mindful parenting training) in Amsterdam, Netherlands with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Aggression is any behavior intended to harm another individual. This brief specifically focuses on childhood aggression directed toward peers.
Army Reservists and their family members were interviewed seven times over the first year of the Reservists’ return from Iraq.
This study provides a descriptive analysis of college students from military and civilian families (employed by the U.S. Department of Defense) residing overseas regarding their observations of their parents engaging in parental spousal violence.
The United States military force includes over 2.2 million volunteer service members. Three out of five service members who are deployed or are preparing for deployment have spouses and/or children.
The deployment of U.S. military personnel to global hot spots, whether as combatants or as peacekeepers, has increased attention to the psychological well-being of military personnel and their family members.
Occasionally, a political initiative makes so much sense that widespread bipartisan support is possible, indeed even expected. The Presidential initiative, Strengthening Our Military Families is just such a measure.