Risk and Resilience in U.S. Military Families, 2011

Coordinators: MacDermid-Wadsworth Shelley, Riggs David

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War related separations challenge military families in many ways. The worry and uncertainty associated with absent family members exacerbates the challenges of personal, social, and economic resources on the home front. U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have sent a million service personnel from the U.S. alone into conflict areas leaving millions of spouses, children and others in stressful circumstances. This is not a new situation for military families, but it has taken a toll of magnified proportions in recent times. In addition, medical advances have prolonged the life of those who might have died of injuries. As a result, more families are caring for those who have experienced amputation, traumatic brain injury, and profound psychological wounds. The Department of Defence has launched unprecedented efforts to support service members and families before, during, and after deployment in all locations of the country as well as in remote locations. Stress in U.S. Military Families brings together an interdisciplinary group of experts from the military to the medical to examine the issues of this critical problem. Its goal is to review the factors that contribute to stress in military families and to point toward strategies and policies that can help. Covering the major topics of parenting, marital functioning, and the stress of medical care, and including a special chapter on single service members, it serves as a comprehensive guide for those who will intervene in these problems and for those undertaking their research.
U.S. Military Families Under Stress: What We Know and What We Need to Know.-I. Marital Functioning.-Introduction.-Does Deployment Keep Marriages Together or Break Them Apart? Evidence from Afghanistan and Iraq.-Couple Functioning and PTSD in Returning OIF Soldiers: Preliminary Findings from the Readiness and Resilience in National Guard Soldiers Project.-Distress in Spouses of Combat Veterans with PTSD: The Importance of Interpersonally Based Cognitions and Behaviors.-Empirically Guided Community Intervention for Partner Abuse, Child Maltreatment, Suicidality, and Substance Misuse.-II. Parenting and Child Outcomes.-Introduction.-Child Maltreatment within Military Families.-Attachment Ties in Military Families: Mothers’ Perceptions of Interactions with their Children, Stress, and Social Competence.-Wartime Deployment and Military Children: Applying Prevention Science to Enhance Family Resilience.-Understanding the Deployment Experience for Children from Military Families.-III. Family Sequelae of Wounds and Injuries.-Introduction.-Trauma, PTSD, and Partner Violence in Military Families.-Couples’ Psychosocial Adaptation to Combat Wounds and Injuries.-Parent and Adolescent Positive and Negative Disability-Related Events and their Relation to Adjustment.-Working with Combat Injured Families Through the Recovery Trajectory.-IV. Single Service Members.-Introduction.-Deployment, Reenlistment Intentions, and Actual Reenlistment: Single and Married Active-Component Service Members.-Post-Deployment Indicators of Single Soldiers’ Wellbeing.-The Single Service Member: Substance Use, Stress, and Mental Health Issues.-Single Military Mothers in the New Millennium: Stresses, Supports, and Effects of Deployment.-Conclusion

Dr. Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth is a professor of Child Development and Family Studies. She serves as director of the Center for Families at Purdue University, as well as director of the Military Family Research Institute. The primary focus of Professor MacDermid's research is the connection between work conditions and family life. She is particularly interested in links among work-family tension, marriage, and parenting, and she has studied workplaces as contexts for adult development. Her research has been published in several journals, including Journal of Marriage and the Family; Journal of Family Issues; and, Family Relations. She has received research funds from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Cooperative Extension Service, and the State of Indiana. In 1996, Professor MacDermid became the director of The Center for Families at Purdue University. Through the Center, she founded and now directs a membership organization focusing on family issues for employers in the Midwestern region. She has served as co-director of Military Families Research Institute since 1999. Professor MacDermid is the author of more than 90 invited or refereed research articles, chapters, books, and scientific presentations. Her research has won one national award, and she recently received the Award of Merit from the local chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta. Professor MacDermid has been an associate editor of two scientific journals, a member of the editorial boards for two others, and a reviewer for three additional publications. She also has reviewed for the National Science Foundation, the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Royal Society of New Zealand Centres of Research Excellence Fund.

David S. Riggs, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Center for Deployment Psychology. Dr. Riggs received his B.A. from the University of Kansas and earned his Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1990 after completing a clinical psyc

Presents new data and new analyses of the research on military families

Offers interdisciplinary perspective from military to mental health

Contributors are leading researchers in the field

Offers a mix of research and intervention

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras