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Support for Transgender Military Service from Active Duty United States Military Personnel

Abstract:  Introduction: Most transgender individuals are banned from serving in and joining the U.S. military. Historically, exclusions and limits have been placed on women, …

Symptom Severity, Self-efficacy and Treatment-Seeking for Mental Health Among US Iraq/Afghanistan Military Veterans

Abstract: Military veterans have high rates of mental health problems, yet the majority do not seek treatment. Understanding treatment-seeking in this population is important. This …

Altered states of combat: Veteran trauma and the quest for novel therapeutics in psychedelic substances

Abstract: For veterans with moral conflicts brought on by war work, evidence-based approaches designed for posttraumatic stress disorder tend not to attend to resulting spiritual …

Resilience Building Among Adolescents From National Guard Families: Applying a Developmental Contextual Model

Abstract: A better understanding of resilience building in military-connected children is needed to serve the needs of military families and sustain the security of the United …

‘It Changed Me As A Man:’ Reframing Military Masculinity in the Army’s ‘Shoulder to Shoulder’ Suicide Prevention Campaign

Abstract: As the suicide rate among U.S. active-duty troops surpassed the nationalaverage for the first time. Responding to what was widely perceived as acrisis brought on in part …

A Study of Rural and Native-American College Students’ Military Identities, Military Family History, and Reading Interests

Abstract: This study addresses college students in a Southwestern, economically depressed, rural area, with their state of residence having a high number, per capita, of …

The Strategy for our Veterans - Taking the Strategy Forward in Scotland

Abstract: The Strategy for our Veterans was published in November 2018. It sought to build on the work by organisations across the public, private and charitable sectors to …

Poetic encounters with war’s ‘others’

Abstract: War art, like poems spoken by Pashtun women in Afghanistan, can tell our emotions things we did not know about war. For some time, this piece was titled ‘The other …

The RAF Family – Experiences from Around the World: Survey Highlights Report

Summary: The RAF Families Federation provides all RAF personnel and their families – Regular and Reserve, single or married – with timely and professional support, assistance …

“Hero-Worship” or “Manipulative and Oversimplifying”: How America’s Current and Former Military Service Members Perceive Military-Related News Reporting

Abstract: Military-related journalism serves an important purpose, and has a special relevance in the modern era of nearly continuous American military involvement. Yet, …

Hierarchies of wounding: Media framings of ‘combat’ and ‘non-combat’ injury

Abstract: In this article, we examine the representational practices of British newspapers in relation to forms of military injury. Using critical discourse analysis, we studied …

Loneliness among Veterans in the Netherlands

Abstract: Loneliness among military veterans may have unique features because of deployment-related experiences. Consequently, loneliness is increasingly recognized as an issue …