A description of military fathers' perspectives on involvement with their children is provided. Results around father involvement are presented using three overlapping major domains of functioning: cognitive, affective, and behavioral.
The program described in the present article focused on service member parents and their teenage children participating in camps together.
Military-Extension Adventure Camps provided an opportunity for military personnel who recently returned from deployment to reconnect with their teenagers. The camps used the Campfire Curriculum, and nightly campfire programs from the Blue to You curriculum for military families.
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.