Military REACH Review | March 2022 Newsletter
- Risk and protective factors predictive of marital instability in U.S. military couples (Pflieger et al., 2021)
- Depression and mental health service use among 12–17 year old U.S. adolescents: Associations with current parental and sibling military service. (London 2021)
- Effects of social network characteristics on mental health outcomes among United States Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers (Vest et al., 2022)
- Predictors of early postpartum maternal functioning among women veterans. (Goger et al., 2022)
- PTSD and parental functioning: The protective role of neighborhood cohesion among Black and White veterans. (Franz et al., 2022)
- Evidence-based social work outreach to military leaders to facilitate intimate partner violence and child maltreatment identification and referral: An evaluation. (Mitnick et al., 2021)
- Spiritual care for combat trauma: A qualitative evaluation of REBOOT Combat Recovery. (Knobloch et al., 2021)
- Training needs among nonmental health professionals working with service members: A qualitative investigation. (Baier et al., 2019)
- Predicting marital health from adverse childhood experiences among United States Air Force active-duty personnel. (Cigrang et al., 2021)
- Relationship satisfaction among spouse caregivers of service members and veterans with comorbid mild traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. (Brickell et al., 2021)
- Predictors of adolescent resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cognitive reappraisal and humor. (Kuhlman et al., 2021)
- The lived experiences of highly mobile military adolescents in search of their identity: An interpretive phenomenological study. (Thomas et al., 2021)
Service Pets: Doggie Do or Doggie Don’t
Military REACH Graduate Researcher
Service pets are individually trained to work with people with disabilities, and they provide support in a variety of ways. In this piece, Kaylee discusses the benefits of owning a service pet and the areas of consideration before welcoming one to the family.
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Welcome, Emily and Olivia! They assist our team with identifying current research on the well-being of military families and completing TRIP and Research Reports.
Emily (left) is a world traveler; she has gone scuba diving in Fiji, has been to Carnival in Salvador, Brazil, and is on a mission to visit all 423 sites in the National Parks System!
Olivia (right) is a go-getter; she speaks two languages, is training to qualify for the Boston Marathon (sub 3hr and 30min time), and she has a Great Pyrenees puppy, Toulouse, named after a Disney cat!
As of 2020, 17.2% (N = 229,933) of active duty service members were female, and the Air Force employed the highest percentage (21.1%) of female services members.