Marines

Pathways of Risk and Resilience: Impact of a Family Resilience Program on Active-Duty Military Parents

Military families experience unique stressors and may benefit from increases in resilience. Researchers investigated a brief, strengths-based intervention focused on enhancing military family resilience through increased communication, parenting skills, collaboration, flexibility, and routines.
2016
Saltzman, W. R.
Lester, P.
Milburn, N.
Woodward, K.
Stein, J.

Pathways of Risk and Resilience: Impact of a Family Resilience Program on Active-Duty Military Parents

Over the past decade, studies into the impact of wartime deployment and related adversities on service members and their families have offered empirical support for systemic models of family functioning and a more nuanced understanding of the mechanisms by which stress and trauma reverberate across
2016
Saltzman, W. R.
Lester, P.
Milburn, N.
Woodward, K.
Stein, J.

Targeting Relational Aggression in Veterans: The Strength at Home Friends and Family Intervention

Objective: We evaluated the effectiveness of Strength at Home Friends and Families (SAH-F), a dyadic group intervention to prevent relational aggression and its negative consequences, in a community-based sample of service members/veterans and significant others who reported relational difficulties.
2015
Hayes, M. A.
Gallagher, M. W.
Gilbert, K. S.
Creech, S. K.
DeCandia, C. J.
Beach, C. A.
Taft, C. T.

Perspective of Family and Veterans on Family Programs to Support Reintegration of Returning Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Understanding the experiences of and preferences for mental health care services available to Veterans and family members upon post-deployment is critical for facilitating Veterans' reintegration into civilian life.
2015
Fischer, E. P.
Sherman, M. D.
McSweeney, J. C.
Pyne, J. M.
Owen, R. R.
Dixon, L. B.

Perspective of Family and Veterans on Family Programs to Support Reintegration of Returning Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Combat deployment and reintegration are challenging for service members and their families. Although family involvement in mental health care is increasing in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) system, little is known about family members’ preferences for services.
2015
Fischer, E. P.
Sherman, M. D.
McSweeney, J. C.
Pyne, J. M.
Owen, R. R.
Dixon, L. B.