The cohort of women who served in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) was the largest group of women in history to serve in the military and be deployed to combat zones.
Little is known about how the experience of military service in Iraq and Afghanistan has affected female Veterans as they return to family life.
The spouse of a military service member is in a special position to understand the behaviors of a service member better than anyone. These individuals live with the military members and are able to detect changes in behavior and increased stress reactions.
Military spouses are in a unique position to detect changes in behavior in their Service member spouse. The current study assessed if military spousal knowledge of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and access to resources about PTSD was related to a higher level of resilience.
This study compares children and youth who have experienced lifetime war-related parental absence or deployment with those having no such history on a variety of victimization types, non-victimization adversity, trauma symptoms, and delinquency; and assesses whether cumulative adversity and victi
Interview data were used to compare rates of victimization and adversity among children with war-related parental deployment and those without war-related parental deployment. The associations between victimization and adversity and child trauma symptoms and delinquency were also explored.
Although the experience of deployments has been described as devastating to married life, evidence linking deployments directly to poorer marital functioning has been sparse.