Approximately 60% of deployed service members leave behind immediate family members, and although military families tend to be adaptive and resilient, evidence suggests that deployments are challenging and difficulties can arise during transitions and family separation, especially for adolescents. Grounded in the family attachment network model and the ABC-X model of family stress, the current study utilized a sample of 204 military families with an active-duty father, civilian mother and adolescent and examined parents' perceptions of adolescents' difficulties during deployment in relation to all three family members' perceptions of the adolescents' mental health (i.e., anxiety symptoms) following deployment. First, analyses of measurement invariance indicated that service members and civilian parents were generally reporting on the same underlying construct of their adolescents' difficulties during parental deployment. Next, a structural equation model demonstrated considerable overlap in service member and civilian parent reports of their adolescents' difficulties during a parental deployment (r = 0.47). Finally, both parents' perceptions of adolescent difficulties during parental deployment were related to their own perceptions of the adolescent's current anxiety but not to the adolescents' reports of their own anxiety symptoms or to the other parent's report of the adolescents' anxiety symptoms. Findings provide support for utilizing these theories in combination, such that disruptions to the family system, and the attachment relationships within that system, in one stage of the deployment cycle, may imply that there are implications for individual-level functioning, namely, anxiety, in the next stage of the deployment cycle. Findings also underscore the importance of examining our measurement tools and collecting data from multiple family members to understand family processes.
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Promoting adolescent well-being: Drawing from basic and applied developmental frameworks and research
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Cooper, E., Vandenberg, C., Sjolseth, S., Short, K., Sherman, H., Hanson, E., O’Neal, C. W., & Lucier- Greer, M. (2024). Promoting adolescent well-being: Drawing from basic and applied developmental frameworks and research. Auburn, AL: Military REACH.
Focus:
Children
Youth
Programming
Mental health
Physical health
Branch of Service:
Multiple branches
Military Affiliation:
Active Duty
Population:
Childhood (birth - 12 yrs)
School age (6 - 12 yrs)
Adolescence (13 - 17 yrs)
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Cooper, Erin; Vandenberg, Carlynn; Sjolseth, Sheila; Short, Kaylee; Sherman, Haley; Hanson, Emily; O'Neal, Catherine W.; Lucier-Greer, Mallory
2024
Adolescent difficulties during parental deployment and anxiety: A focus on measurement and family processes
APA Citation:
Sherman, H., O’Neal, C. W., Tidwell, A., & Lucier-Greer, M. (2023). Adolescent difficulties during parental deployment and anxiety: A focus on measurement and family processes. Child & Family Social Work, 28(4), 1110-1120. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13030
Focus:
Youth
Deployment
Parents
Mental health
Branch of Service:
Army
Military Affiliation:
Active Duty
Population:
Young adulthood (18 - 29 yrs)
Adulthood (18 yrs & older)
Thirties (30 - 39 yrs)
Middle age (40 - 64 yrs)
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Sherman, Haley; O'Neal, Catherine Walker; Tidwell, Allison; Lucier-Greer, Mallory
2023
3 A review of evidence-based strategies to help military families navigate relocation
A review of evidence-based strategies to help military families navigate relocation
APA Citation:
Vandenberg, C., Hanson, E., Tidwell, A., Sherman, H., Chen, C.-F., O’Neal, C. W., & Lucier-Greer, M. (2023). A review of evidence-based strategies to help military families navigate relocation. Auburn, AL: Military REACH.
Focus:
Children
Youth
Parents
Couples
Mental health
Physical health
Branch of Service:
Army
Navy
Air Force
Coast Guard
Marine Corps
Multiple branches
Military Affiliation:
Active Duty
Population:
Childhood (birth - 12 yrs)
Preschool age (2 -5 yrs)
School age (6 - 12 yrs)
Adolescence (13 - 17 yrs)
Adulthood (18 yrs & older)
Young adulthood (18 - 29 yrs)
Thirties (30 - 39 yrs)
Middle age (40 - 64 yrs)
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Vandenberg, Carlynn; Hanson, Emily; Tidwell, Allison; Sherman, Haley; Chen, Chia-Feng; O'Neal, Catherine W.; Lucier-Greer, Mallory
2023
Empowering through education: Frameworks for relationship education, parent education, and sexual violence prevention
APA Citation:
Cooper, E., Vandenberg, C., Hanson, E., Sherman, H., Saxey, M., Tidwell, A., O’Neal, C. W., & Lucier-Greer, M. (2024). Empowering through education: Frameworks for relationship education, parent education, and sexual violence prevention. Auburn, AL: Military REACH.
Focus:
Children
Youth
Parents
Couples
Programming
Trauma
Mental health
Branch of Service:
Multiple branches
Military Affiliation:
Active Duty
Guard
Reserve
Population:
Childhood (birth - 12 yrs)
Adolescence (13 - 17 yrs)
Adulthood (18 yrs & older)
Young adulthood (18 - 29 yrs)
Thirties (30 - 39 yrs)
Middle age (40 - 64 yrs)
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Cooper, Erin; Vandenberg, Carlynn; Sherman, Haley; Saxey, Matthew; Tidwell, Allison; O'Neal, Catherine W.; Lucier-Greer, Mallory
2024
Combat deployment experiences and soldier mental health: Examining the factor structure of a combat experiences scale
APA Citation:
Sherman, H., Frye-Cox, N., & Lucier-Greer, M. (2021). Combat deployment experiences and solider mental health: Examining the factor structure of a combat experiences scale. Military Medicine, usab456. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usab456
Focus:
Mental health
Branch of Service:
Army
Population:
Adulthood (18 yrs & older)
Young adulthood (18 - 29 yrs)
Thirties (30 - 39 yrs)
Middle age (40 - 64 yrs)
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Sherman, Haley; Frye-Cox, Nicky; Lucier-Greer, Mallory
2021
Researchers and practitioners are invested in understanding how deployment experiences impact the nearly 193,000 U.S. service members who deploy in a given year. Yet, there remains a need to adequately identify salient deployment experiences through survey measurement tools and understand how differential experiences are uniquely related to mental health outcomes. Therefore, this study examined the factor structure of an established combat experiences measure from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Service members (Army STARRS) dataset to identify underlying survey constructs that reflect nuanced deployment experiences. Then, we examined the association between diverse combat experiences and current mental health symptoms (i.e., anxiety and depressive symptoms) and the mediating role of coping.Data were drawn from the Army STARRS data (N = 14,860 soldiers), specifically the All Army Study component. A principal component analysis (PCA) was conducted to examine the dimensionality of the combat experiences scale, and then a path model was conducted to examine the relationships between combat experiences, coping with stress following a deployment, and mental health symptoms while controlling for relevant individual and interpersonal factors.Results from the principal component analysis suggested that the Army STARRS combat experiences scale encompasses two components, specifically: “Expected combat experiences” and “Responsible for non-enemy deaths.” Both “Expected combat experiences” and “Responsible for non-enemy deaths” were associated with higher levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms, respectively, and “Responsible for non-enemy deaths” was also indirectly linked to these mental health outcomes through coping with stress after deployment.These findings provide insight into the dimensionality of combat experiences and offer practitioners a more nuanced understanding of how to process unique combat experiences that differentially relate to mental health symptoms.
Coping and mental health differences among active duty service members and their spouses with high and low levels of marital warmth
APA Citation:
Lucier-Greer, M., Quichocho, D., Frye-Cox, N., Sherman, H., Burke, B., & Duncan, J. M. (2020). Coping and mental health differences among active duty service members and their spouses with high and low levels of marital warmth. Military Psychology, 32, 425-431. https://doi.org/10.1080/08995605.2020.1803724
Focus:
Couples
Mental health
Parents
Branch of Service:
Multiple branches
Military Affiliation:
Active Duty
Population:
Thirties (30 - 39 yrs)
Middle age (40 - 64 yrs)
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Lucier-Greer, Mallory; Quichocho, Davina; Frye-Cox, Nicky; Sherman, Haley; Burke, Benjamin; Duncan, James M.
2020
This study examined the relationship between marital warmth (e.g., openly expressing affection, supportive behaviors) and assessments of coping (i.e., challenges coping with military life and self-efficacy in the context of stress) and mental health (i.e., depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms) in a sample of active duty men and their spouses/romantic partners (N = 234 military couples). Results from a series of multivariate analysis of variance tests indicate that service members and spouses who reported higher levels of marital warmth also reported better coping skills and mental health compared to individuals in couple relationships that demonstrated lower levels of marital warmth. Intervention and prevention implications targeting social support and marital warmth are provided.
Helping school personnel prevent and de-escalate peer aggression: An overview of existing research and insights into programming
APA Citation:
Frye-Cox, N., Sherman, H., Tidwell, A., O’Neal, C. W., & Lucier-Greer, M. (2021). Helping school personnel prevent and de-escalate peer aggression: An overview of existing research and insights into programming. Auburn, AL: Military REACH
Focus:
Children
Youth
Parents
Programming
Population:
Childhood (birth - 12 yrs)
School age (6 - 12 yrs)
Adolescence (13 - 17 yrs)
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Frye-Cox, Nick; Sherman, Haley; Tidwell, Allison; O'neal, Catherine; Lucier-Greer, Mallory
2021
A review and application of posttraumatic growth for enhancing the well-being of military service members and their families
APA Citation:
Burke, B., Lucier-Greer, M., Quichocho, D., Sherman, H., Nichols, L., & O’Neal, C. W. (2019). A review and application of posttraumatic growth for enhancing the well-being of military service members and their families. Auburn, AL: Military REACH.
Focus:
Children
Youth
Parents
Couples
Deployment
Trauma
Mental health
Physical health
Veterans
Branch of Service:
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marine Corps
Multiple branches
Population:
Childhood (birth - 12 yrs)
Infancy (2 - 23 mo)
Preschool age (2 -5 yrs)
School age (6 - 12 yrs)
Adolescence (13 - 17 yrs)
Adulthood (18 yrs & older)
Young adulthood (18 - 29 yrs)
Thirties (30 - 39 yrs)
Middle age (40 - 64 yrs)
Aged (65 yrs & older)
Very old (85 yrs & older)
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Burke, Benjamin; Lucier-Greer, Mallory; Quichocho, Davina; Sherman, Haley; Nichols, Lucy; O'Neal, Catherine Walker
2019
1 A HIDDEN CRISIS: WOMEN'S POSTPARTUM MENTAL HEALTH
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2 A SALUTE TO OUR WOMEN SERVICE MEMBERS FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
Posted by Sherman, Haley
4 ADAPTING AND OVERCOMING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Posted by Sherman, Haley
5 CULTIVATING COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
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6 YOU ARE NOT ALONE: NAVIGATING MENTAL HEALTH
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7 FAMILY LEISURE AND RECREATION: WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR FAMILIES
Posted by Sherman, Haley
HALEY SHERMAN: CINDY WINTER SCHOLARSHIP AWARD RECIPIENT
Posted on August 16, 2023
COLLEGE OF HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
Posted on March 17, 2023
HALEY SHERMAN RECEIVES TWO PRESTEGIOUS AWARDS
Posted on April 21, 2021
STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS: HALEY SHERMAN, RESEARCH TEAM
Posted on June 04, 2020
HALEY SHERMAN: EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH AND MENTORSHIP
Posted on May 13, 2020
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CULTIVATING COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
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Parent-Child Communication during Deployment
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