An in-depth exploration of ten Vietnam Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and their live-in female partner’s perceptions about family participation in mental health treatment was conducted.
Suicide has a profound impact on surviving family members and friends, although few research has examined this issue in the military population.
The feasibility for adapting the Marriage Checkup (MC), a brief intervention for enhancing marital resiliency, for use in a clinic serving an Active Duty military population was assessed.
Substantiated maltreatment reports of 2,969 married, male Soldiers were used to explore the differences between first-time offenders who engaged in both child and spouse maltreatment (dual offenders) versus those who only engaged in child maltreatment (single offender).
Survey data of 1,367 Navy recruits were utilized to explore the demographic and psychosocial variables associated with those who are at risk for engaging in intimate partner violence (IPV) and child physical abuse (CPA).
Access to proper nutrition in military families is important for improved military readiness. Researchers surveyed 248 households in order to describe the presence of food insecurity (i.e., having limited availability of nutritionally adequate, affordable foods) in military families.
Data from 26 Dutch-speaking couple and individual interviews are used to explore the meaning of not talking about the grief experience with a partner following the death of a child to cancer.
Findings from previous research are mixed in identifying and determining the effects and types of violence among intimate partners. Self-report data collected from 488 male U.S.
A mixed-methods approach was utilized to examine the effectiveness of an intergroup dialogue intervention with 36 public school teachers regarding their attitudes, feelings and behaviors towards lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) students and parents.
Effects on military families’ overall well-being has yet to be examined as it relates to duration and frequency of deployments. This study sought to explore the relationship between parents’ deployment and change in adolescent behavior and parent well-being.