Military REACH Review | July 2024 Newsletter
Researchers studied the emotional eating habits of military-connected adolescents and how this behavior was linked to other physical and mental health challenges.
T/F: In general, boystended to have higher levels of emotional eating than girls.
- How military-related stress and family relationships are associated with perceptions of work-family impact for married male service members with adolescent children (Farnsworth & O'Neal, 2024)
- Understanding African American help-seeking for romantic relationships: Advocacy, barriers, and considerations (Hubbard et al., 2024)
- Ways rural group peer support experiences support PTSD care (Azevedo et al., 2024)
- Cognitive–behavioural conjoint therapy versus prolonged exposure for PTSD in military service members and veterans: Results and lessons from a randomized controlled trial (Monson et al., 2024)
- Meaning of the Warrior Games: The role of camaraderie and motivation in participation (Greenly et al., 2024)
- Fathering at a distance in the military: Techniques for presence and emotion work among Canadian Armed Forces fathers (Atwood, 2024)
- Concerns, worries, and fears during pregnancy in active-duty United States Air Force families (Milner et al., 2024)
- A socioecological examination of the challenges associated with young widowhood: A systematic review (Barros-Lane et al., 2024)
- Importance of military identity in understanding the relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder and adverse family functioning for post-9/11 veterans (Dodge et al., 2024)
- Preferences of U.S. veterans making and receiving Caring Cards: A peer approach to recovery-oriented suicide prevention (Chalker et al., 2024)
- Prevalence and correlates of food and/or housing instability among men and women post-9/11 US veterans (Cypel et al., 2024)
- Emotional dysregulation moderates the relation between perceived stress and emotional eating in adolescent military dependents (Spinner et al., 2024)
Research on Trending Topics
July is Military Consumer Month. The 2024 theme is Consumer Scams and Protections and the goal is to educate Service members and their families about new scams, their rights, and their protections.
- Translating discovery science: Delivering online, asynchronous financial education to service members at career and personal life transitions (O'Neal et al., 2023)
- Financial education affects financial knowledge and downstream behaviors (Kaiser et al., 2022)
- Financial boundary ambiguity among military spouses (McCoy et al., 2021)
Military cultural competence: A gateway to effective service provision
By: Allison Tidwell, Graduate Research Assistant, Military REACH
Military culture shapes the experiences of military families and how they respond to stressful situations. Helping professionals can assist these families to successfully overcome their challenges by ensuring they understand aspects of military culture and it's the impact on the families' experiences. This article provides an overview of military cultural competence and strategies helping professionals can use to continually enhance their competence in serving military families.