Active Component

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.

Meaning-making and social support have been shown to mediate between traumatic stress and the onset and course of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Semi-structured interviews were completed with 12 Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans regarding how they made meaning of their traumatic experiences and how they defined their identity after experiencing combat.

The experiences of parents, partners, and siblings of Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans were explored, to understand the consequences of repeated deployments on participants’ mental health. Method. Purposive sampling was used.

Research on military families is often related to Service members' spouses and children.

Military spouses (milspouses) enact resilience through communication before, during, and after military deployments.

With the stressors of deployments on military families, it is essential that military spouses find ways to promote resilience during the deployment cycle. Military spouses' view of resilience and coping during deployment were analyzed for overarching themes.

Female service members’ family structures differ from the traditional male service member_female spouse composition of military families.

A secondary analyses of the 2010 wave of the Military Family Life Project regarding structural differences in male and female Service members' families and the experiences of their military spouses was investigated.