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Military history n americans in the an naval h military h naval e military conventions y of military ry ive service military history. By using our website, you agree to the use of cookies as described in our privacy mfrieventsprograms and grantsresourcesnewsroomdonatesign up for our e-newsletter•contact tationsreports and papershow to help seriesfamily stand down toolkit landscape in higher educationebriefingother page contains a list of reports, articles, papers, and other documents that have been authored, created, or formally reviewed by researchers and other staff members of the military family research lation of risk and promotive factors among young us military her: american journal of community nce: macdermid wadsworth, s. These veterans are a part of vibrant military families with more than two million young children in their important studies have shown that military children who have experienced separation from a parent due to combat-related deployment are at an increased risk for a variety of negative consequences. Some scholars argue that current research on military children focus too much on the negative aspects of their experience, and fail to recognize their strengths, the strengths of their families, or the supports around ry children live in almost every city, town, and rural area in the united states. Many of these children have experienced unique stressors as a result of their military parents’ wartime deployments. Understanding the diversity of children in military families, and their functioning and well-being is important not only for the children of this generation of veterans but also for children whose parents are deployed in the study focuses on strengths that reside within the individual and factors that are external to the individual (promotive factors) as well as risk factors. While looking at the lives of military children under the age of ten, researchers found that risk factors, particularly parental depression, community poverty, and cumulative risk, were more strongly associated with children’s outcomes than promotive more information about risk and promotive factors in young children from military families, please many faces of military families: unique features of the lives of female service her: military nce: southwell, k. The many faces of military families: unique features of the lives of female service members. Service members’ family structures are very different from traditional military families with a male service member. Using a mixed-methods study, mfri graduate research assistant kenona southwell and mfri director shelley macdermid wadsworth explored the structural differences in these types of families, reviewing many factors such as demographics, empirical evidence, and the 2010 wave of the military family life project. Southwell and macdermid wadsworth noted significant structural differences in male and female service members’ families and perceptions and experiences of military order to gain an understanding of the influence of women’s service on their family functioning, in-depth telephone interviews were conducted with 20 civilian husbands residing in 11 states around the united states. Civilian husbands of female service members reported lower marital satisfaction, less support from the community, and less satisfaction with the military lifestyle than military wives reported. Implications of benefits and challenges for women’s service for their families are further read more about the benefits and challenges for female service members and their families, please :///pubmed/ impact of deployment on parental, family and child adjustment in military her: child psychiatry and human nce: lester, p. The tragic events of 9/11, american military service has been defined by deployments and challenges that contribute to military family stress.

Current research tells us that wartime deployment has a negative impact on the well-being of service members and their families. The authors of this article used deployment records and parent-reported information, and examined the influence of deployment on military families with children under the age of chers found that greater deployment exposure had a tendency to impact family functioning and marital instability, and that parents with depression and symptoms of posttraumatic stress were likely to impact the social and emotional adjustment in young children. Researchers also found that children experiencing this scenario had increased anxiety in early childhood, and problems with adjusting when they reached school-age. On the other hand, the authors found that sensitive parents improved social and emotional effects for read more about these findings, and guidance for military families with young children, please :///pubmed/n expression, avoidance and psychological health during reintegration: a dyadic analysis of actor and partner associations within a sample of military her: journal of social and personal nce: marini, c. Emotion expression, avoidance and psychological health during reintegration: a dyadic analysis of actor and partner associations within a sample of military couples. Authored by mfri graduate research assistant christina marini, mfri director shelley macdermid wadsworth and purdue university faculty partners, this article evaluated whether military couples’ coping strategies and emotional expression impacted each partner’s psychological health during reintegration. Research results showed that, for both service members and their partners, psychological health was positively impacted by one’s own emotional expression, and negatively impacted with avoiding emotional expression. There were also significant links between service members’ psychological health and their partners’ expression, but only in the context of high combat more information or to read the full article, please al perspectives on deployment and child-mother relationships in military her: family relations: interdisciplinary journal of applied family nce:posada, g. The conflicts in iraq and afghanistan, deployments and their related challenges became more common for military families. Children, whose parent experienced military wartime deployments to iraq and afghanistan, were younger than five, and we are still learning about the impact of deployment challenges on these young 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 authors found that overall, deployment-related factors were both directly and indirectly related to children’s attachment. Mothers’ quality of care partially mediated the association between fathers’ involvement and children’s attachment behavior as well as the link between mothers’ depression and children’s attachment more information or to read the full article, please tion of a multimedia intervention for children and families facing multiple military her: journal of primary nce: flittner o’grady, a. Ed military deployments have been a common experience for many military families in the past 15 years. These conflicts are different from past military conflicts because the deployments were longer, more frequent, and often had less time at home in between multiple one deployment of a parent can cause emotional and behavioral problems for children. There are programs to help military families cope, but these can be hard to access and use.

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 compared to a control multimedia kit created without a focus on military families, tlc iimd, was significantly more likely to be perceived as helpful. These guardians also had stronger opinions that the dvd helped children to more information or to read the full article, please y management in the military family during deployment: adolescents’ her: journal of family nce: owlett, j. Journal of family communication, 15(2), study examines military adolescents’ experiences of managing private information within their families during a parental deployment. Future research should continue to explore deployment with specific attention to how privacy rules change during more information or to read the full article, please ew of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and alcohol misuse among active duty service members returning from iraq and afghanistan, self-report and her: military nce: mustillo, s. Military medicine, 180(4), study presents an overview of these three mental health problems associated with deployment among air force, army, marine corp, and navy service members returning from deployment to iraq and afghanistan between january 2007 and march 2008. The authors were able to estimate prevalence of those who screened positive for risk of each disorder in self-report data at two time points, as well as prevalence of diagnoses received during health care encounters within the military health care more information or to read the full article, please force fitness: the military family fitness her: military nce: bowles, s. This article describes the military family fitness model (mffm), a comprehensive model aimed at enhancing family fitness and resilience across the life span. The purpose of this article is to (1) expand the military’s total force fitness (tff) intent as it relates to families and (2) offer a family fitness model. Changes to military educational benefits have led to more students across the country returning to school and looking for services on campus. In the february 2015 issue of the international journal of higher education research, the authors looked at soon-to-be student service members who contacted campuses to ask staff and administrators about admissions, financial aid, academic and student services policies and article established:• most schools had the ability to refer to disability services, award credit for military training, and waive reapplication requirements following deployment. Many schools still have room to simplify and expand assistance to student service members and this evidence, colleges have a new opportunity improve the lives of military members and their families, helping them to recover from the difficult and dangerous duties their nation asked them to perform. Military families have done their duty, and we, as a grateful nation, must do seeking by parents in military families on behalf of their young her: the international journal of higher education operation iraqi freedom and operation enduring freedom, more than one million children faced a parent’s deployment. Current research has shown that military parents of children experiencing problems are not using the many services available to them as often as they contributing authors studied military family help-seeking activity with regard to children’s problems. In general, the study found parents knew about these rthy findings include the following:• military families are aware that their children may have problems.

This means civilian providers must understand military family iveness of a multimedia outreach kit for families of wounded her: disability and health nce: walker, d. Children in military families with a member who has a life changing injury can experience emotional difficulties and behavior changes. These results signal important improvements among families as a consequence of using either test or control results and insights will appear in disability and health journal in impact of the military context on the grief her: military behavioral nce: faber, a. Military behavioral health, 2(1), purpose of this longitudinal case study was to describe the grief process within a military context of two parents who lost a son in combat during operation iraqi freedom. The military context played a large role in postloss adjustment for the parents in terms of helping them find meaning in the loss as well as providing a source of more information or to read the full article, please ed barriers to mental health care in three samples of u. Military community and its partners have made vigorous efforts to address treatment barriers and increase appropriate mental health services use among returning national guard soldiers. More information or to read the full article, please t service members/veterans in higher education: a systematic her: journal of student affairs research and nce: barry, a. Article systematically reviewed the data-based peer-reviewed research examining student service members and veterans in higher education. Compared to their civilian peers, military-affiliated students exhibit disproportionately higher rates of health risk behaviors and psychological symptoms, and personal and educational adjustment difficulties. The authors found that combat-related trauma is a contributing factor to these differences between civilian students and military-affiliated students. Despite this growth, research into their issues is almost nonexistent, and what is available suggests that student service members/veterans may have trouble connecting with their civilian counterparts and be at risk for social isolation. The research suggested that mental health practitioners, particularly those on college campuses, should be prepared to deal with veteran-specific experiences that occur before and during more information or to read the full article, please development and implications of peer emotional support for student service members/veterans and civilian college her: the journal of college orientation and nce: ritz, g. Through a multi-pronged approach, student veterans offered a variety of resources to help ease their transition from “boots to books” show good reason for continuing the specialized orientation more results and insights please visit the journal of college orientation and tanding and supporting the resilience of a new generation of combat-exposed military families and their her: clinical child and family psychology nce: macdermid wadsworth, s. Understanding and supporting the resilience of a new generation of combat-exposed military families and their children.

Clinical child and family psychology review, 16(4), time of conflict has exposed a generation of military families and children to combat and its consequences. The need to respond rapidly to the evolving needs of military families has highlighted the value of both prevention science and implementation science. Public health models emphasizing a full continuum of care that emphasizes not only treatment but also universal, selective, and indicated prevention also are appealing given the uneven density, uncertain locations, and unknown identities of military families in civilian more information or to read the full article, please ching family-focused systems of care for military and veteran her: military behavioral nce: macdermid wadsworth, s. Military behavioral health, 1, gh current research recognizes robust interdependence among family members, it is not yet evident that such principles have fully integrated into existing systems of care for military and veteran families. We discuss examples of family-centered approaches already in place and identify gaps in existing systems of more information or to read the full article, please logical health of military children: longitudinal evaluation of family-centered prevention to enhance family her: military nce: lester, p. Military medicine, 178, study evaluates the impact of families overcoming under stress family resilience training (focus), on the psychological adjustment of military children. The findings in this article underscore the public health potential of family-centered prevention for military families and suggest areas for future more information or to read the full article, please ic relationships following wartime her: journal of family nce: karakurt, g. Transitions in work and family roles were negotiated on an ongoing basis throughout the more information or to read the full article, please ic conditions of military her: future of nce: hosek, j. The article also found that more military spouses are either unemployed or work fewer hours than they would like, and military spouses overall tend to earn less than their civilian counterparts. The article discussed the factors and events that characterize each phase and provide some practical recommendations for employers of military more information or to read the full article, please ing the association between binge drinking and propensity to join the her: military nce: barry, a. To address this need, authors explored the extent to which binge drinking was related to joining the military among a national sample of high school seniors responding to the 2008 monitoring the future survey. Independent samples and analyses were employed to explore if twelfth grade students who intended to join the military after graduating from high school binge drank significantly more than those not intending to enlist. Research showed that binge drinkers had a higher propensity to join the military than those who did not binge drink. As binge drinking increased, so did one's likelihood to join the military, and confirmed the idea that high school binge drinkers may be self-selecting into military service.

These findings underscore the importance of adequately assessing the frequency of high-risk alcohol consumption and their associated correlates among potential military recruits before more information or to read the full article, please ctive evaluation of mental health and deployment experience among women in the u. Aje/us research has shown that military women often experience potentially severe health outcomes following deployment. Women who were deployed and reported combat-related exposures were more likely than nondeployed women of reporting symptoms of a mental health condition, after adjustment for demographic, military, and behavioral covariates. In contrast, women in the reserves or national guard and those with higher education were at decreased risk of mental health more information or to read the full article, please ching family-focused systems of care for military and veteran her: military behavioral nce: macdermid wadsworth, s. Gh current research recognizes robust interdependence among family members, it is not yet evident that such principles have fully integrated into existing systems of care for military and veteran families. The research also found that for partners, none of the soldiers’ ptsd symptoms clusters was uniquely associated with relationship adjustment or with change in adjustment over more information or to read the full article, please alcohol use and associated mental health problems of veterans and student service members in higher her: drugs: education, prevention & nce: barry, a. This research suggests that binge drinking among student service members/veterans was associated with greater problems, highlighting potential adjustment difficulties/ more information or to read the full article, please ations of posttraumatic stress among military-affiliated and civilian her: journal of american college nce: barry, a. Bill provides monetary assistance for the educational and housing needs of military personnel to pursue higher education. Bill removes appreciable obstacles, such as tuition and fees, that could prevent military personnel/veterans from continuing their education, there are other burdens plaguing service members higher education. To address this issue, the authors aimed to determine whether the unique experiences of student service members/veterans resulted in “invisible wounds” above and beyond those experienced by their civilian counterparts, and to determine the degree to which pts symptoms among military affiliated students are associated with alcohol-related consequences and academic more information or to read the full article, please rt toward success: description and evaluation of a program designed to help children and families reconnect after a military her: journal of applied communication nce: wilson, s. Passport toward success: description and evaluation of a program designed to help children and families reconnect after a military deployment. This article evaluates passport toward success, a program that rotates children whose military parent has recently returned from deployment through three interactive stations. Researchers found that many children were experiencing difficulties associated with their parent’s deployment and reunion. The article discusses implications of these findings for the second phase of the program and for understanding how communication skills can promote resiliency for coping with repeated military more information or to read the full article, please g children and families reconnect after a military her: communication nce: wilson, s.

In response to these statistics, the purdue military family research institute, working in cooperation with the indiana national guard, created “passport towards success,” a program designed to strengthen communication skills that help children and families reconnect following a parent’s military deployment. Research observers perceived that the passport program was delivered consistently, and as intended, at most events; and. Know that military fathers endure repeated separations from their children, for varying lengths of time. This article describes military fathers’ range of involvement with their children, paying special attention to deployment separation and reintegration. The article found that involvement with children was a major concern for fathers, because of the challenges of military careers. Comparative analysis of student service member/veteran and civilian student drinking her: journal of student affairs research and nce: whiteman, s. S of the health of military personnel serving in operation enduring freedom and operation iraqi freedom are quite alarming. This article examined the drinking motivations of student service members/military veterans and civilian college students, and revealed no differences between military affiliated and civilian students in alcohol motivations. Military might at first glance appear to be a model of rigidity rather than flexibility, there are strong incentives to address the work-family concerns of service members and their families. From a work-family perspective, military service generates substantial structural, energy, psychological, and behavioral tensions with family life. Military had already implemented extensive programs, policies, and practices to support families prior to the current conflicts, the wars and demographic changes have spurred the development of innovative new models, some far outside previous boundaries of military workforce flexibility. Future challenges include continuing to adapt as military conflicts and missions evolve, defining the ideal balance between military support and family self-sufficiency, sustaining excellent leadership throughout the military around work- family issues, and caring for the millions of individuals whose lives have been changed by their own or a loved one’s military service during the past more information or to read the full article, please risk and resilience in the context of war and her: journal of marriage and nce: macdermid wadsworth, s. Mass violence poses significant threats to mental health and family functioning, but individuals and families also display striking levels of more information or to read the full article, please higher education her: military family research institute, purdue s: sternberg, m. The wake of changes the military family research institute (mfri) sought to gain a deeper understanding of the landscape of support for student service members and veterans in the universities and colleges across indiana.

Mfri did this by assessing awareness of the student veteran population in colleges and universities in indiana; determine what supports and services existed to assist military members and their families as they entered or returned to higher education; increase awareness of the needs of student service members and veterans; and increase the visibility of promising programming for student service members and veterans. As a result of the techniques used to gather information for this report, mfr found that campuses across indiana were unevenly prepared to assist student service members and veterans as they transitioned from military service to higher t for casualty notification her: military family research institute at purdue s: willerton, e. Document was created for casualty notification officers (cnos) preparing to notify family members that a military member has been wounded or died. The goals for the report are to assist in preparation for a notification; to help cnos anticipate what they may experience as a result of the notification; and to provide cnos with additional tanding and promoting resilience in military her: military family research institute, purdue s: macdermid, s. Review of scientific evidence about resilience in children and families was compiled at the request of the office of military community and family policy in the united states department of defense. The purpose of the review is to examine research conducted in civilian and (where available) military settings that may provide insights about individual and family resilience in the face of events that might have impacts similar to deployment. Ultimately, such insights may provide guidance regarding strategies likely to prove successful in minimizing any negative effects of deployment on military families and nces on job search self-efficacy of spouses of enlisted military her: human performance; military family research institute, purdue s: trougakos, j. 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. The use of employment assistance programs increased spouses' jsse even after considering the above ry libraries: their roles and her: military family research institute at purdue s: welch, e. Study examines the state of military libraries around the world by focusing on satisfaction with specific facets of library services and their perceived impact on retention and quality of life. Interviews with head librarians for each branch of service; focus groups of military members and dependents conducted at conus and oconus locations), the study addressed the following issues: meeting the needs of the military community; duplication of services available from local public libraries; quality of service; technology; adequacy of facilities, equipment and materials; and delivery of library programs. Some findings differed by service, but overall, the data suggest that, in conus, military libraries fall short of civilian libraries however, they are important sources of information re military culture and professional development. The majority of recommendations for improving services related to improving facilities, equipment and materials, specifically computers and internet ry onesource: its use, impact and her: military family research institute, purdue s: sprenkle, d. Efforts should be made to make more members aware of onesource and to find better ways to co-ordinate services within the ments among adolescents in military families when a parent is her: military family research institute, purdue s: huebner, a.

Qualitative study explores the many dimensions of the deployment experiences of 107adolescents (54% male) in military families in order to better inform program professionals in developing support programs for young people. The focus is on adolescent resilience - their ability to respond to changes in family life related to the demands of military service. Implications for program professionals re provision of services and curriculum development as well as implications related to deployment phases are put des, aptitudes, and aspirations of american youth: implications for military her: military family research institute, purdue s: authors: schwarz, r. Research brief reports on recent demographic and social issues discussed in a book from the national research council's committee on youth population and military recruitment. Data gathered through focus groups conducted with 27 fathers at walter reed army medical center, this chapter examines how the physical, temporal, and social settings associated with military deployments affect men's thoughts and actions as fathers, and offers new insights on how deployed military fathers encounter and deal with challenges to their involvement as parents. Despite dangerous physical conditions of war and limited opportunities to engage in direct interaction with their children, some fathers take creative steps to ensure they remain a presence in their children's lives while other fathers disengage and abdicate their parenting ry onesource counseling: first armored division pilot counseling her: military family research institute, purdue s: sprenkle, d. Onesource is a resource created to offer military members and their families 24/7 help with both day-to-day issues and larger problems from any location. This document reports on a program that created new non-medical counseling resources for military families at multiple army installations in germany and one in italy. Interventions included listening/rapport building/support, and education/information/ value of caregiving: a comparative analysis of compensation in military child development her: military family research institute, purdue s: schwarz, r. Evaluating and comparing the compensation packages of dod child development centers (cdc) staff to those of employees in occupations similar to child care work in content, experience, compensation, and/or compatibility to the military lifestyle, this report reveals a number of strengths and weaknesses in the compensation packages of military caregivers. The suggested recommendations include strategies in the areas of compensation, quality improvement, and care use and satisfaction among military families with preschool her: military family research institute, purdue s: macdermid, s. The 1999 survey of active duty personnel, this report examines the child care arrangements used by military families with children younger than six. Secondary care arrangements); variations in care arrangements (variations by military status, paygrade, location, child age, earner status and housing); expenditures of military parents (expenditures by type of care, number of children, paygrade, housing and earner status) and parents' evaluations of child care (satisfaction by type of arrangement, characteristics of military members and military families, concerns about child care arrangements and attitudes related to evaluations of care). Processes in emotional labor: perceptions of affective delivery and regulation her: military family research institute, purdue s: weiss, h.

The report concludes with a discussion on aggregation of performance episodes from individual to group performance of an entire variations in the connection between work-induced family separation and turnover her: military family research institute, purdue s: behnke, a. Except for african americans, members with higher pay and more education were more likely to intend to k factors in organizational her: military family research institute at purdue university; presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the american psychological association, honolulu, s: kurek, k. Study examines 160 military members' perspectives about the events and conditions precipitating changes in levels of military commitment over time using data gathered from four military installations (one for each service branch). Results are discussed in terms of the three different types of commitment (affective, normative, continuance) as well as global commitment; individual characteristics (gender, marital and parental status); and the various issues affecting financial landscape for military parents of young her: military family research institute, purdue s: macdermid, s. Report examines the income and expenditure patterns of military parents of children younger than six. Four questions are addressed: (1) what are the characteristics of military families who are at high financial risk? 3) how do the income and expenditures of military families compare to those of self-sufficiency standards? Suggested recommendations ng your child care center: a theoretical and practical her: military family research institute, purdue s: schwarz, r. The report, formatted as a workbook, includes assessment tools to measure performance and evaluate work environments, and a variety of tips and techniques that make it a useful resource to child care center directors and administrative ion in the armed forces: past approaches and new research her: military family research institute, purdue s: weiss, h. It is divided into four sections: (1) past and current turnover and retention models utilized by the military are reviewed; (2) different theoretical frameworks outline the processes by which individuals leave organizations; (3) social psychological theories related to group attachment and attitudes are discussed to supplement the reviewed military and organizational literature; and (4) a new conceptual framework is offered as a tool to synthesize the literature and guide future research. West state lafayette, in e of health and human t papers, research topics, & publication ry school t papers, research topics, & publication submissions: military school ry school student ry school ry ry school university press papers by & space power gic studies forces staff gning: the journal of the joint forces staff college. Army chaplain center and chaplain corps postgraduate n nps institutional archive (faculty and researcher publications, institutional publications, reports, theses and dissertations). Army war college quarterly judge advocate general's legal center and corps corps university d and general staff studies institute e acquisition e acquisition research al defense force  (center for complex operations). Song and macario hed on: 11 october health among iranian combat veterans with ankle-foot neuromusculoskeletal taghva, mostafa allami, kamyab alizadeh, anahita zandi, elahe faraji and zohreh hed on: 26 september accessed articles ongoing search for potential targets and therapies for lethal -qiang bao, li he, david lee, john d’angelo and hai-chao hed on: 8 august g the right time in space: importance of circadian clock and sleep for physiology and performance of -hu guo, wei-min qu, shan-guang chen, xiao-ping chen, ke lv, zhi-li huang and yi-lan hed on: 21 october ng and re-emerging infectious diseases: challenges and opportunities for jie marc ho, yi fu jeff hwang and jian ming vernon hed on: 24 september ations of crispr-cas9 mediated genome hed on: 9 may of noise on hearing in the su-ern yong and de-yun hed on: 25 february concerns of war-related ankle and foot injuriespost-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) invite you to submit an article to the following thematic series:post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)​​​​​​​deadline: june 1, ry medical research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing cutting-edge findings on basic medical science and clinical research that is related to military medicine.

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