The more than decade long tempo of war has taken a considerable toll on military families, with the rates of mental health concerns in non-deployed spouses on the rise. To date, few evidence-based programs exist to meet the unique needs of military spouses.
In this study, military spouses participated in the HomeFront Strong program, an eight week group-based resiliency intervention. The study's purpose was to assess participants' perceptions of deployment and depressive symptoms after participation in HomeFront Strong.
Military families with adolescents experience high levels of stress associated with parental deployment, but many of these families do not seek or utilize mental health services.
Adolescent children of Service members can experience significant stress and emotional difficulties during parent deployment; however, mental health care utilization rates are low.
Deployment separation and reunifications are salient contexts that directly impact effective family functioning and parenting for military fathers. Yet, we know very little about determinants of postdeployed father involvement and effective parenting.
Post-deployed fathers' who served in the National Guard and Reserves, involvement and effective parenting were examined. Pre-intervention data were used from fathers participating in the After Deployment, Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT) randomized control trial.
Recent studies have found that military-connected students confront many challenges-such as secondary traumatization-that may stem from a parent's deployment and frequent relocations.
Military youth attending public schools often possess many risk factors also associated with gang membership, including home and school upheaval and alienation from peers.
The Social Acknowledgment Questionnaire (SAQ; Maercker & Mueller, 2004) is a measure of trauma survivors’ perceptions of social acknowledgment and disapproval from others, and these factors are shown to be associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among civilian trauma survivors.
An investigation of treatment-seeking Veterans' and the associations between perceived social reactions to their trauma-related experiences and their mental health diagnosis was conducted.