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.
This investigation examined the mutual influences between structured parenting and child social wariness during toddlerhood using a longitudinal adoption design. The sample consisted of 361 adoption-linked families, each including an adopted child, adoptive parents, and a birth mother.
Relationships are increasingly impacted by military involvement, necessitating a deeper understanding of communication within these 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.
The homecoming period following combat deployment can be as stressful to military spouses as the deployment itself.
The present study explored the impact of online communication and social networking sites on military spouses as they experienced a deployment of their spouse.
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
A retrospective cohort study was conducted to examine risk and protective factors for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms reported by soldiers (n = 2,583) at postdeployment.
The development of child and adolescent self-concept was examined as a function of the self-concept domain, social/developmental/educational transitions, and gender.
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.