Military REACH Review | April 2024 Newsletter
Researchers evaluated Airmen's reactions to asynchronous Personal Financial Readiness trainings tailored to address Service member needs during personal and professional transitions (e.g., promotion, new child).
T/F: Overall, Service members expressed that the trainings were high quality, relevant, and impactful on their financial behaviors.
- Strengthening and supporting parent–child relationships through digital technology: Benefits and challenges (Johnson & Rogers, 2023)
- Longitudinal predictors of children's self-blame appraisals among military families reported for family violence (Rancher et al., 2024)
- The Positive Relational Couples Therapy Model: A group therapeutic approach for LGBTQIA+ military couples (Morris et al., 2024)
- Translating discovery science: Delivering online, asynchronous financial education to service members at career and personal life transitions (O'Neal et al., 2023)
- 'Whether it’s your weapon or not, it's your home': US military spouse perspectives on personal firearm storage (Betz et al., 2023)
- Masculinity and stigma among emerging adult military members and veterans: Implications for encouraging help-seeking (Clary et al., 2023)
- "The culture" is truly the issue: A preliminary exploration of active duty female spouses’ acculturation to military life (Page et al., 2024)
- Feasibility of a family-involved intervention to increase engagement in evidenced-based psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress disorder: A pilot study (Shepherd-Banigan et al., 2024)
- Examining Strength at Home couples to prevent intimate partner violence on a military installation: A randomized controlled trial (Taft et al., 2024)
- The role of problem solving appraisal and support in the relationship between stress exposure and posttraumatic stress symptoms of military spouses and service member partners (Sullivan et al., 2024)
- Maternal and paternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and offspring health and wellbeing: A scoping review (Grafft et al., 2024)
- Crisis response planning rapidly reduces suicidal ideation among U.S. military veterans receiving massed cognitive processing therapy for PTSD (Bryan et al., 2024)
Empowering through education: Frameworks for relationship education, parent education, and sexual violence prevention (Military REACH, 2024)
This report serves to inform the selection, development, and improvement of healthy relationships, parenting, and sexual violence prevention curricula/programming. Additionally, special considerations are provided for the implementation of prevention services with military families, particularly Reserve and National Guard families.
Military family readiness: An overview
By: Emmy Wright and Allison Tidwell, Graduate Research Assistants, Military REACH
The Military REACH tagline is "Mobilizing research, promoting family readiness", but what is military family readiness? In this piece, we explain the concept, how it relates to family functioning, why it matters, and how the military aims to promote military family readiness through the Military Family Readiness System.
Members of the Military REACH team attended the Southeastern Council on Family Relations. We presented on topics ranging from mental health policy to Service members and mental health utilization. We had a great time and even came home with awards!
Winners from left to right: Bri Gordon, Allison Tidwell, Emily Scott, Sheila Sjolseth, and Haley Sherman
Who to turn to when I need someone to turn to? Exploring the help-seeking behaviors of military service members
Presenter: Brianna Gordon
Who speaks for veteran families? An investigation of voices centered in veteran family research
Presenter: Allison Tidwell
How did rates of child abuse change due to the COVID-19 pandemic? A scoping review
Presenter: Emily Scott
Do policies support family resilience? A thematic analysis of interviews with community-based mental health center leaders
Presenter: Sheila Sjolseth