Abstract: Armed Forces personnel who deploy as individual augmentees (IAs), with a unit other than their formed unit, often fill shortages or provide specialized knowledge or skill …
More than 1.7 million children in the United States have a parent serving in the military. Since September 11, 2001, approximately 900,000 children have had a parent who deployed …
Abstract: A systematic review and meta-analyses were conducted on studies of the prevalence of aggressive and violent behavior, as well as of violent offenses and convictions, …
Abstract: Objectives: We assessed changes in Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) scores over time. We investigated the impact of life events and changes in mental …
Abstract: Objective: Rest and Recuperation (R&R) is a period of home leave taken during an operational deployment; we sought to examine the relationship between taking R&R …
Abstract: Introduction: Pregnancy and childbirth are life-altering events. For military families, pregnancy and childbirth can occur in tandem with the family's experience of a …
Abstract: Children in military families experience various stressors associated with the demands of military life, such as parental absences due to deployments. However, there is …
Abstract: Introduction: The military lifestyle presents unique challenges to children from military families, such as frequent family separations due to operational deployments …
Abstract: BACKGROUND: This observational study examined return to duty (RTD) rates following receipt of early mental health interventions delivered by deployed mental health …
Abstract: Large numbers of British and American Reservists have been deployed to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Little is known about the impact of deployment and combat …
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the theory and application of Embodied Restorying Practices (ERPs), an intervention designed to promote military family …