Air Force

This study examines associations between adolescent reports of family communication patterns (FCPs) and difficulties experienced during the deployment and reintegration of a military parent.

Family communication patterns in military families can have a significant impact on family resilience and military readiness. This study investigated adolescents' adjustment in military families during parental deployment and reintegration.

Objective: To determine the efficacy of the Mentors Offering Maternal Support (MOMS) program to reduce pregnancy-specific anxiety and depression and build self-esteem and resilience in military women.
Design: Randomized controlled trial with repeated measures.

Prenatal intervention programs may decrease civilian women's anxiety and depression levels during pregnancy; however, less is known about how prenatal interventions impact women affiliated with the military.

For military couples reunited following deployment, discussing or avoiding topics is a central dimension of communication. This paper theorizes about two predictors of topic avoidance that arise from a lack of confidence in social situations: generalized anxiety and relational uncertainty.

Service members and their romantic partners often encounter communication problems after deployment. In one study, 220 returning Service members talked about their topic avoidance (i.e., topics that they avoided talking about) with their partner after deployment.