Military REACH Review | November 2022 Newsletter
- Understanding Special Operations Forces spouses challenges and resilience: A mixed-method study (Richer et al., 2022)
- Influence of family factors on service members’ decisions to leave the military (Woodall et al., 2022)
- “This gradual swing back into us”: Active duty Army spouses’ experiences during homecoming and post-deployment family reintegration (Drew et al., 2022)
- Bring your spouse: Brief multifamily group outcome for posttraumatic stress disorder (Elder et al., 2022)
- Spousal psychological health: The role of military spouse health and protective factors (Skomorovsky et al., 2022)
- The impact of military sexual trauma on parent-infant bonding in a sample of perinatal women veterans (Creech et al., 2022)
- Gender disparities in active duty Air Force parents’ childcare access: Pre-pandemic costs, utilization, and career impacts (King et al., 2022)
- Resilient family: A pilot study of a stress management program for military-connected families (Sylvia et al., 2022)
- Psychosocial functioning deficits impact and are impacted by suicidal ideation in post-9/11 women veterans (Lawrence et al., 2022)
- Translating Discovery Science. Fostering relationships: Service provider perspectives on community building among veteran families (Monk et al., 2022)
- The relationship between anxiety, coping, and disordered-eating attitudes in adolescent military-dependents at high-risk for excess weight gain (Solomon et al., 2022)
- Effects of a 9-month military-base internship on the competitive integrated employment of military dependent and connected youth with ASD (Wehman et al., 2022)
Honoring Our Indigenous American Service Members
Kaylee Short , Graduate Research Assistant, Military REACH
November is Native American Heritage Month which is a time to celebrate and recognize our country’s Indigenous peoples, including Indigenous Service members who are often left out of our history's narrative.
Neurodiversity Among Service Members in the U.S. Military
Melissa Garnes and Kim Snyder , Undergraduate Research Assistants, Military REACH
This piece discusses neurodivergence among U.S. Service members; how another country practices inclusion within their service; and a call to action moving forward to improve the lives of those who are neurodivergent.
Dr. Mallory Lucier-Greer, Allison Tidwell, Dr. Julianne McGill (front, left to right), & Dr. Kyle Kostelecky (back)
Allison Tidwell, Military REACH Graduate Research Assistant, successfully defended her Master's Thesis this month. She will begin working on her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Science this spring.
Dr. Nick Frye-Cox, Dr. Catherine O'Neal, Dr. Mallory Lucier-Greer, and Dr. Davina Quichocho
Dr. Mallory Lucier-Greer, Dr. O'Neal, and colleagues received the Professional Award for their presentation at the 2022 National Council on Family Relations.
As of 2020, ~50% of our active duty Service members (including Guard and Reserve) are married (N = 1,013,972) and ~36% (N = 800,176) have children.