Military REACH Review | April 2023 Newsletter
- Glimpsing the iceberg: Parent-child physical aggression and abuse (Slep et al., 2022)
- Military-related stress, self-efficacy, and anxiety: Investigating the role of marital quality in military couples (Lucier-Greer et al., 2022)
- Transferable resilience practices: Communication and resilience of U.S. military spouses during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic (Fanari et al., 2022)
- Living liminal lives: Army partners’ spatiotemporal experiences of deployment (Long, 2022)
- Qualitative examination of homecoming experiences among active-duty military fathers during reintegration (Blankenship et al., 2023)
- Influence of comorbid social anxiety disorder on symptomatology and social functioning in female military sexual trauma survivors with PTSD (Gros et al., 2022)
- Internet-based family training with telephone coaching to promote mental health treatment initiation among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: A pilot study (Kuhn et al., 2022)
- The relationship between parental disability and child outcomes: Evidence from veteran families (Lakdawala & Bharadwaj, 2022)
- Influence of “Decide + Be Ready” contraceptive decision aid on pre-deployment health decisions (Wilcox et al., 2022)
- Social factors predict treatment engagement in veterans with PTSD or SUD (Fivecoat et al., 2022)
- Gender differences in social support for diabetes self-management: A qualitative study among veterans (Gray et al., 2023)
- The PTSD Family Coach app in veteran family members: Pilot randomized controlled trial (van Stolk-Cooke et al., 2023)
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Reflections and Preventions for Child Abuse Awareness Month
Kaylee Short , Graduate Research Assistant, Military REACH
Child abuse is on the decline; however, it’s still a pervasive problem in the United States. This piece discusses a few contexts in which child abuse may occur, stress management suggestions for parents, and the resources available for child abuse prevention, specifically within the military.
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You're Valued, Too: Overcoming the Challenges of Military Spousal Employment
Bri Gordon & Rexanne Butler , Undergraduate Research Assistant, Military REACH
Spousal employment is a continued challenge for military spouses. This piece discusses the biases and barriers associated with military spousal employment, discusses how employment can boost personal well-being, and describes the skills and assets military spouses can bring to the workplace.
April is observed as Month of the Military Child to celebrate the 1.6 million U.S. military children.
- As of 2021, there were 950,953 children of Active Duty members and 658,378 children of National Guard and Reserves members.
- Purple is the color for military children because it is a combination of every branch color: Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard’s unique blues, Army green, and Marine red.
- The official flower of the military child is the dandelion. Much like dandelion seeds moving where the wind blows them, military children can take root and bloom wherever the military sends them.