Child care and parenting needs of adults with mental illness are of growing concern, especially among those seeking Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) mental health services.
Objective: Limited data suggest that the children of U.S. service members may be at increased risk for disordered-eating. To date, no study has directly compared adolescent military-dependents to their civilian peers along measures of eating pathology and associated correlates.
Since military operations began in Afghanistan and Iraq, lengthy deployments have led to concerns about the vulnerability of military marriages. Yet evaluating military marriages requires some benchmark against which marital outcomes in the military may be compared.
One important but understudied source of support for Army families is the family readiness group (FRG).
This manuscript describes a qualitative study using focus group methods to gain insight into how combat-related parental deployments affect preschool-age children.
Combat injury in military service members affects both child and family functioning. This preliminary study examined the relationship of child distress postinjury to preinjury deployment-related family distress, injury severity, and family disruption postinjury.
Romantic partners of combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) report elevated relationship and psychological distress.
National Guard Service members face deactivation from active duty soon alter they return to the United States and rapid entry into the civilian workforce; therefore, it is important to examine employment among these Veterans. Methods:The sample included 585 National Guard service members.
In the context of current discussions among social commentators about the status and well being of community in American society, this article examines the nature of civic engagement and sense of community in the U.S. military.
We investigated associations between children's representations of mothers in their play narratives and measures of children's and mother socioemotional adaptation, and explored the development of these representations between the ages of 4 and 5 years.