Military REACH Review | December 2022 Newsletter
- Relationship maintenance among military couples (Knobloch et al., 2022)
- Military marriages: Do adaptive processes promote marital resilience? (Pullman & Wang, 2022)
- Social learning and career navigation in the U.S. military: The personal experiences, observations and socializations of servicewomen (Erwin et al., 2022)
- Longitudinal associations among service members’ PTSD symptoms, partner accommodation, and partner distress (Fredman et al., 2022)
- Mental health and health risk behaviors of active duty sexual minority and transgender service members in the United States military (Holloway et al., 2021)
- Associations of combat exposure and parental locus of control in deployed mothers and fathers (Darawshy et al., 2022)
- Families of origin: The experience of parents of single military members (Williams et al., 2022)
- Comparing predictors of intention for physical activity participation between normal and overweight military spouses (Speed et al., 2022)
- Resilient parents… Resilient communities: A pilot study trialing the Bounce Back and Thrive! resilience-training program with military families (Mikolas et al., 2021)
- Family needs after traumatic brain injury: A VA TBI model systems study (Finn et al., 2022)
- Mental health outcomes of peer-led therapeutic adventure for military veterans (Bettmann et al., 2022)
- Pain, mental health, life satisfaction, and understanding from others in veterans with spinal cord injury (Watson et al., 2022)
Brat to Combat: Military Children Turned Service Members
Kim Snyder & Bri Gordon , Undergraduate Research Assistants, Military REACH
1% of the U.S. population serves in the Armed Forces, and a quarter of them have at least one parent who served before them. Our students were interested in why such a high percentage of people follow their parents' career paths. So, in this piece, they blend empirical research with qualitative feedback to learn more about their decisions to join.
Staying "Merry and Bright": Tips for Overcoming Stress During the Holiday Season
Emily Wright , Graduate Research Assistant, Military REACH
In this piece, Emily discusses how holiday stress impacts military families, and she provides some tips and resources families can use to overcome stress during this time of year.
The Military REACH team has worked hard this year to continually provide you with high-quality content related to military family well-being.
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2,000+ military-connected teens were surveyed by the National Military Family Association about their intentions to serve the country. 44% reported intending to enlist in the future, and 18% reported intending to do so upon their high school graduation.