Army

The research on highly mobile military adolescents has produced mixed findings.

Qualitative data from students, parents, and school staff were used to examine transition-related stressors experienced by mobile military students (i.e., those who experience multiple military-related moves), the efforts utilized to help these students cope with stress, and to identify strategie

Family involvement contributes to student success, and family-school communication (FSC) is intended to promote parent involvement; however, little is known about the communication processes that enlist that involvement.

This qualitative study used an ecological framework to explore educator perceptions of family-school communication at two elementary schools serving U.S. Military families.

This study examines the romantic relationships of reservists following wartime deployment. Members of an Army Reserve unit and their partners participatedin seven waves of interviews in the year following the reservists’ return from deployment.

U.S. Army Reservists and partners of U.S. Army Reservists were interviewed about their relationships after the Reservists returned from a year-long deployment in Iraq.

Military children experience a variety of military-specific stressors. Stressors include repeated geographic relocation and parental separation, both of which can negatively affect social, emotional, psychological, and academic outcomes.

School administrators from the Building Capacity Consortium schools (140 schools dedicated to developing military friendly school environments) were surveyed to uncover how they understand the needs of military connected students and actions their school takes to address those needs.

There are approximately 1.5 million active duty service members in today’s military and approximately 726,000 (56.1 %) of these individuals are married. Therefore, healthy couple functioning is important for the military community.

Dual military couples were recruited from a military family medicine clinic and completed questionnaires about relationship functioning. Levels of physiological stress were also assessed in both partners.