Military REACH Review | February 2022 Newsletter
- Combat deployment experiences and soldier mental health: Examining the factor structure of a combat experiences scale (Sherman et al., 2021)
- News from the front: A monthly study on stress and social support during a military deployment to a war zone (Ragsdale et al., 2021)
- Combat experience, new-onset mental health conditions, and posttraumatic growth in U.S. service members (Jacobson et al., 2021)
- Association between cumulative risk and protective factors with mental distress among female military spouses (Sullivan et al., 2021)
- Inhibitory control moderates the intervention effects of a preventive parenting program on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among male service members (Zhang et al., 2021)
- Delivering take root to military families with a child 0-to 3-years-old: Examining feasibility and proof-of-concept (Chesnut et al., 2021)
- Treating postpartum depression in rural veterans using internet delivered CBT: Program evaluation of MomMoodBooster (Solness et al., 2021)
- The impact of military sexual trauma and warfare exposure on women veterans’ perinatal outcomes (Nillni et al., 2021)
- The role of posttraumatic stress symptoms and negative affect in predicting substantiated intimate partner violence incidents among military personnel (Stander et al., 2021)
- The use of a brief family intervention to reduce dropout among veterans in individual trauma-focused treatment: A randomized controlled trial (Thompson-Hollands et al., 2021)
- Military stressors, parent-adolescent relationship quality, and adolescent adjustment (Farnsworth & O'Neal, 2021)
- Army home visitors’ implementation of military family violence prevention programming in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (Ferrara et al., 2021)
Transition Readiness: Supporting Youth with Disabilities
Military REACH Research Associate
As a young adult with a disability, I often find myself reflecting on my upbringing with an increasing appreciation for the effect my parents had on my life. During life’s hardships, they challenged me to adapt and persevere, which ultimately forced me to learn invaluable life skills.
Military REACH Research Assistant
Every February, the eating disorder community gathers to celebrate National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. This year’s theme is “See the Change, Be the Change.” Anyone, no matter their age, shape, or gender, can suffer from an eating disorder, and it’s the community’s goal to help society address that.
- The psychological regulation of emotion during social interactions: Vagal flexibility moderates the effects of a military parenting intervention on father involvement in a randomized trial (Zhang, et al., 2020)
- Parental wartime deployment and socioemotional adjustment in early childhood: The critical role of military parents’ perceived threat during deployment (Hajal, et al., 2020)
- A dyadic examination of drinking behaviors within military-connected couples (Lee, et al., 2020)
- Perceived partner responsiveness, pain, and sleep: A dyadic study of military-connected couples (O'Neill, et al., 2020)
The 2021 Barbara Thompson Excellence in Research on Military and Veteran Families awards were presented this month:
