Background: Little is known about military families who have a dependent with special health care and/or educational needs. The Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) is designed to link these families to military/community support services through family support provider (FS providers).
Families with a dependent who has special health care or educational needs can experience stressful challenges. The Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) assists military families with identifying military and community support services through a family support provider.
Objective: Although the working alliance-outcome association is well-established for adults, the working alliance has accounted for 1% of the variance in adolescent therapy outcomes.
Researchers examined the association between working alliance and treatment outcome in a sample of military youth who received psychotherapy for problems related to substance abuse. Participants' ratings on working alliance and treatment outcome were collected during each session.
Objective: To determine if deployment to recent military operations or other health, demographic, or military-related characteristics were associated with employment after military service.
The study examined whether deployment experiences, health, demographic, and militaryrelated characteristics were associated with civilian employment after military service. Of the 9,099 former U.S. Active Duty Service members in the study, 17% were unemployed after military service.
Drawing on social support theory, this study examines the main and interactive effects of parental perceived stress and social support on externalizing behaviors in military youth.
Stress and the ways that families cope with stress often have a large impact on children's behavior, which may be particularly relevant for military families. This study investigated externalizing behaviors among military children and associations with family stress and social support.
Background: Young people in military-connected families may be exposed to deleterious stressors, related to family member deployment, that have been associated with externalizing behaviors such as substance use.
Young people in military-connected families may be exposed to negative stressors, related to family member deployment, and as such be more likely to engage in substance use.