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Students in urban schools may have difficulties with their social-emotional and character development skills.

Youth programs are designed to support youth development; however, not much is known about youth's own perspectives of what adult behaviors are most supportive.

It is important to understand the associations between deployment and child neglect types in military families. This study examined 390 substantiated child neglect cases in four Army installations; the neglect type and the deployment status at the time of each neglect incident was investigated.

Data from the 2013 California Healthy Kids Survey (N = 688,713) were used to examine associations between military affiliation and youth substance use, violence, and weapon carrying.

National Guard or Reserve Service member fathers who had been separated from their children due to deployment participated in individual interviews about their beliefs and attributions regarding their young children.

Middle school children were assessed at three time points over a school year (7 month period) to examine the role of stressful life events as a risk factor for elevated anxiety sensitivity. Stressful life events were associated with later increases in anxiety sensitivity.

Interviews and survey data were used to identify common stressors experienced by military wives and explore whether problem-focused coping strategies (e.g., acceptance, planning, active coping, religion, and using emotional support) or emotion-focused coping strategies (e.g., self-distraction, ve

Female spouses of deployed Active Duty Army personnel participated in a study examining predictors of general wellbeing (including perceived stress, coping behaviors, and health-promoting behaviors) during deployment separation.

Interview data from National Guard and Reserve spouses were utilized to identify sources of stress throughout the deployment cycle and explore spouses' coping strategies. Stressors varied from pre-deployment through post-deployment, as did coping responses.

Using data from a large-scale Community Assessment survey of Air Force members, the author examined Active Duty members’ perceptions of their spouse’s or significant other’s ability to cope with deployment of unknown length and adjust to demands of being an Air Force family.