Publications

Information about selected journal articles, papers, and other documents authored or formally reviewed by MFRI researchers and other staff:

Maternal perspectives on deployment and child-mother relationships in military families (2015)

We are still learning about the impact of deployment challenges of young children whose parent experience military wartime deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. To gain insight on this issue, MFRI contributing authors used survey data from 292 mothers of military children to study relations among military deployment factors, quality of maternal care and child attachment behavior with their mother.

Effectiveness of a multimedia outreach kit for families of wounded veterans (2014)

This study evaluated a Sesame Workshop multimedia kit which included video and print materials, aimed to help caregivers assist young children as they adjusted to their parent’s injury. The authors hypothesized that use of the materials would produce improvements in caregiver and child outcomes as well as reductions in perceptions of disruption in the home.