Military REACH Review | October 2023 Newsletter
This study explored the use of food distribution resources among military families who applied for supplemental childcare support during the COVID-19 pandemic (N = 8,326 Army & Air Force families).
T/F: 20% of military families reported using food distribution resources at least once in the past 12 months. Overall, these families tended to report higher financial wellbeing (e.g., capacity to absorb a financial shock, being on track with financial goals).
- Veterans-by-proxy: A conceptual framework of ambiguous loss among children of combat veterans (Kelly & Paul, 2018)
- A pilot of couple HOPES within the U.S. Veterans Affairs Healthcare System: PTSD and relationship outcomes in veteran couples (Morland et al., 2023)
- Making sense of changes in military partners’ post-deployment adjustment concern: Turning points, trajectories, and accounts (Dorrance-Hall et al., 2023)
- Use of food distribution resources among military families with young children since the COVID-19 pandemic (O'Neal et al., 2023)
- Welcome to the U.S. Army: A qualitative examination of the Army’s reception of new soldiers (Kintzle et al., 2023)
- Feasibility and acceptability of a virtually delivered mindfulness-based intervention for post-9/11 veterans (Shue et al., 2023)
- Upstream suicide prevention in the U.S. Army: Noncommissioned officers’ perspectives (Ayer et al., 2023)
- Resources and support for sexual assault survivors receiving services from the U.S. Air Force: What survivors say they need for recovery (Spencer et al., 2023)
- Barriers to and facilitators of military spouses’ recovery from perinatal mental health disorders: A qualitative study (Nguyen et al., 2023)
- The impact of changes in family communication on sustained mental health symptom improvement in parents/caregivers following a military family intervention (Wasserman et al., 2023)
- Marriage and family therapists’ exposure to trauma, access to support, and intention to leave: It takes a village (Armes et al., 2023)
- Professionals’ perspectives on relevant approaches to psychological care in moral injury: A qualitative study (Serfioti et al., 2023)
Community capacity building: Mobilizing community supports to facilitate the integration of military families (Military REACH, 2023)
The Military REACH team sought to identify available research on the provision of community resources in the domains of housing, healthcare, education, employment, sense of safety, connecting with neighbors, relationship building, and integration.
Prioritizing Veterans' Voices as a University Librarian
By: Carol Fisher, MLIS, Faculty Librarian, Washington State University
Guest Author, Carol Fisher who is a Veteran and university librarian, shares about her role as a faculty librarian, the lens through which she develops and designs veteran programs, and her call to action for those who design and facilitate programs for veterans.
Allison received the Master's Thesis Award from Auburn University for her exceptional and well-executed master's thesis. This award is presented to 6 graduate students at Auburn, and this year 3 of the 6 students were from Human Development and Family Science.
Learn more about Allison's thesis here.