Brief Summary: With the goal of developing a theory that explains spousal influence on Service member retention, this study examined whether spouse resource use, perceived stress, and attitudes toward the […]
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Parenting Profiles in Military Families: Intervention-Related Transitions and Relationships to Child Adjustment (2024)
Brief Summary: This study explored parental behavior patterns among 336 National Guard and Reserve families who participated in a randomized controlled trial of the ADAPT parenting program after a deployment. […]
Love Is Not All You Need: Understanding the Association Between Relationship Status and Relationship Dysfunction With Self-Directed Violence in Veterans (2024)
Brief Summary: This study examined whether relationship status and relationship dysfunction were related to Veterans’ self-directed violence (i.e., self-injury, suicidality). 1,049 Veterans self-reported their relationship status (i.e., living together or […]
Gender role reversal: Civilian husbands of U.S. military servicewomen as tied-migrant workers (2024)
Brief Summary: This qualitative study explored civilian husbands’ experiences as “tied-migrant workers” – spouses whose careers and employment opportunities tend to rely on their wives’ military careers. The tied-migrant worker […]
Examining Strength at Home Couples to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence on a Military Installation: A Randomized Controlled Trial (2024)
Brief Summary: Strength at Home Couples (SAH-C) is a group intervention designed to prevent and reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) among military couples. This randomized controlled trial examined whether participants […]
An exploration of potential pressures to engage in parenting accommodation of PTSD symptoms for military couples (2024)
Brief Summary: Partner accommodation refers to partners of individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) altering their behavior in response to the individual’s symptoms, and it often has a negative effect […]
PTSD service dogs foster resilience among veterans and military families (2021)
“Military deployment and reintegration challenges permeate the lives and relationships of Veterans, their spouses, and their families. Among these challenges, 23% of post-9/11 Veterans have been diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Psychiatric service dogs have been found to help clinically alleviate PTSD symptoms when used as a complementary intervention.”
Building community capacity to care for military and veteran families: The Star Behavioral Health Providers Program (2021)
“Service members, veterans, and their families frequently have difficulties finding trained behavioral health providers who have knowledge of military culture and issues specific to the military population. This paper documents the design, implementation, effectiveness, and proximal outcomes of the Star Behavioral Health Providers training program (SBHP).”
Youth’s sibling relationships across the course of a parent’s military deployment: Trajectories and implications (2020)
parents’ perceptions of youth’s sibling relationships across the course of a parent’s military deployment. Participants included 109 families with at least two siblings (older sibling and younger siblings age: M = 10.85, SD = 3.92 and M = 7.89, SD = 3.58, respectively) and one parent serving in the National Guard. Data were collected via in-home interviews, at six time points across the deployment cycle.”
Ultra-rapid development and deployment of a family resilience program during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from Families Tackling Tough Times Together (2020)
“The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic brought uncertainty, anxiety, and stress into households; however, it also created an opportunity as many families, sequestered at home, found themselves spending much more time together. To support families and improve their ability to cope, recover, and build resilience amid the pandemic, Purdue University’s College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS) launched Families Tackling Tough Times Together (FT), a strength-based multi-week online program informed by scientific evidence about family resilience.”