Exploring religious and spiritual issues in family therapy has become more commonplace over the past decade (Walsh, Spiritual resources in family therapy, 2009), but understanding how religion and spirituality evolve within military families is unclear.
Recent studies have highlighted the impact of deployment on military families and children and the corresponding need for interventions to support them.
The article lists various nonprofit organizations which aid individuals and families show their support to military soldiers in the U.S. for the celebration of the National Military Appreciation Month on May 2011.
This article summarizes the findings from the Second Annual Trauma Spectrum Disorders Conference, which was held in December 2009 and was sponsored by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury in conjunction with the Department of Veterans Affairs and t
This study surveyed 253 military families with children who have disabilities to determine if they experienced difficulties in adapting to military life. Responses indicated that 25 percent of children with disabilities were 3 years or younger and 75 percent were age 4 through 6 years.
We provide a summary of the limited research on three uniquely stressful experiences of military families: relocation, separation, and reunion.
This article describes an exploratory study of stress reactions experienced by adult dependents separated from family members involved in the Persian Gulf War. The majority of respondents reported loneliness and anxiety along with strong feelings of pride and patriotism.
The effects of father absence for varying lengths of time and varying growth periods are compared with the effects of father presence, as reflected in college entrance scores on the American College Entrance exam. Comparisons are made for only children in the 2 and 3-child families.
Psychological symptom profiles were obtained on 1,601 children of soldiers deployed during Operation Desert Storm (ODS). The profiles were obtained from reports of the parents who stayed at home with the children.