“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.”
military spouses
“A Part of Our Family”? Effects of Psychiatric Service Dogs on Quality of Life and Relationship Functioning in Military-Connected Couples (2020)
“Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can have corrosive impacts on family relationships and individual functioning. Emerging evidence has shown that psychiatric service dogs may be an effective complementary treatment for military veterans with PTSD, benefiting veterans’ mental and social health.”
Military spouses’ self- and partner-directed minimization in the context of deployment (2019)
“In light of technological advances enabling military couples to communicate throughout deployment, spouses of deployed service members often make decisions about what to share with service members, and how to respond to service members’ concerns. In doing so, they manage an emotional boundary between service members and their families.”
Emotion expression, avoidance and psychological health during reintegration: A dyadic analysis of actor and partner associations within a sample of military couples (2015)
This article evaluated whether military couples’ coping strategies and emotional expression impacted each partner’s psychological health during reintegration. Authors simultaneously evaluated associations between service members’ own coping and psychological health, and how their significant others’ were impacted.
Support for Casualty Notification Officers (2008)
This document was created for Casualty Notification Officers (CNOs) preparing to notify family members that a military member has been wounded or died.
Influences on Job Search Self-Efficacy of Spouses of Enlisted Military Personnel (2007)
Using the 1997 survey of spouses, this study examines the influence of employment status, family characteristics, childcare conflict (CCC) and employment assistance programs on job search self-efficacy (JSSE) of 6,411 spouses of enlisted military personnel.
Military Fathers on the Front Lines (2005)
This chapter examines how the physical, temporal, and social settings associated with military deployments affect men’s thoughts and actions as fathers.
Staffing Your Child Care Center: A Theoretical and Practical Approach (2003)
This report examines the situation in early childhood care and education, reviews recent studies that address the issues surrounding staff turnover in the early childhood care and education profession, outlines specific contributors to turnover, and attempts to align the causes of turnover with strategies to prevent future turnover from occurring.
Communication and connection during deployment: A daily-diary study from the perspective of at-home partners (2017)
In this study, 87 partners of deployed National Guard service members completed daily diaries, recording their entries for seven consecutive days on the same channels each time they communicated with their service member. Findings indicated that across the week partners who reported their service member provided them with higher levels of support and made decisions together more often as a couple felt more connected to their service member.