“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).”
Topp D. B.
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.”
Continuity in psychological health and role functioning across deployment (2020)
“Scholars have described military deployments as one of the most stressful aspects of life for military couples. Deployment affects multiple roles and family members, yet little is known about the degree to which postdeployment outcomes are accounted for by predeployment functioning independent of deployment experiences.”
Female U.S. military veterans’ (non)disclosure of mental health issues with family and friends: Privacy rules and boundary management (2019)
“Grounded in communication privacy management (CPM) theory, this study explores the criteria female U.S. military veterans rely on when creating privacy rules regarding (non)disclosure of their mental health information with others as well as how female veterans manage privacy boundaries. Interviews with a diverse sample of 78 female veterans recently diagnosed with PTSD revealed examples of all five criteria for privacy rules proposed by CPM theory and illustrate how factors such as military culture, trauma, and risk/benefit assessments are interconnected.”
Continuity in psychological health and role functioning across deployment (2019)
“Scholars have described military deployments as one of the most stressful aspects of life for military couples. Deployment affects multiple roles and family members, yet little is known about the degree to which postdeployment outcomes are accounted for by predeployment functioning independent of deployment experiences.”
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.”
Communication and connection during deployment: A daily diary study from the perspective of at-home partners (2018)
“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 (e.g., phone) each time they communicated with their service member. They recorded their communication activities (e.g., support provision) and how connected they felt with their service member.”
Help seeking by parents in military families on behalf of their young children (2015)
MFRI contributing authors studied military family help-seeking activities with regard to children’s problems. Specifically, they examined emotional and behavioral problems in children younger than 10 years old. In general, the study found parents knew about these problems.
Evaluation of a multimedia intervention for children and families facing multiple military deployments (2015)
This study evaluated the impact of Talk, Listen, Connect: Multiple Deployments (TLC-II MD), a multimedia kit created by Sesame Workshop specifically for military families experiencing multiple deployments.
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.