Educators from elementary schools near large military installations participated in focus groups and interviews and completed questionnaires regarding the knowledge, skills, and dispositions teachers perceive as being critical for supporting military students’ academic and social development.
Objective: Women veterans have a higher prevalence of chronic pain relative to men. One hypothesis is that differential combat and traumatic sexual experiences and attenuated levels of social support between men and women may differentially contribute to the development and perpetuation of pain.
Social support variables and traumatic experiences were examined as predictors of pain outcomes in a group of EF/OIF/OND Veterans experiencing chronic pain, with particular attention to whether these relationships differed between men and women.
Relationships are increasingly impacted by military involvement, necessitating a deeper understanding of communication within these couples.
Partners of civilian and military members participated in a survey to understand communication difference among military and civilian couples.
One of therapists’ contemporary moral imperatives is to support American service members and their families regardless of personal position on the Global War on Terrorism.
Focus groups and interviews were held with military wives to gain insight into their experiences while their husbands were deployed during wartime.
This study examined the relations among three different types of naturally occurring social support (from romantic partners, friends and neighbors, and unit leaders) and three indices of Service member well-being (self reports of depressive symptoms, satisfaction with military life, and perceptio
Researchers explored relationships between negative deployment experiences, naturally occurring social support (i.e. romantic partners, friends and neighbors, and unit leaders), and post-deployment adjustment in Active Duty Air Force personnel.
This study examined the association between symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in male Vietnam veterans and their use of aggressive behavior in relationships with intimate female partners. Fifty couples participated in the study.