Impact of Deployment on the Military Family and Its Relationship to the Symptomatology of PTSD

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carilyn C. Ellis ◽  
Heather M. Ambroson ◽  
Mary A. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Military Family ◽  
The Military

Mother and Soldier: Raising a Child with a Disability in a Low-Income Military Family

2005 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy E. Taylor ◽  
Shavaun M. Wall ◽  
Harriet Liebow ◽  
Christine A. Sabatino ◽  
Elizabeth M. Timberlake ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Military Family ◽  
Active Member ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Personal Strengths ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Impact

This article presents the results of a study of six low-income women, each of whom is raising a child with a suspected or diagnosed disability while also serving as an active member of the armed forces. Their experiences as they attempt to strike a balance between the highly demanding work role of the military and their role as a mother of a child with disabilities are examined. This article also discusses the personal strengths these women display, the barriers they confront, the strategies they use to negotiate competing demands, and the impact of this effort on their personal and professional lives. Practice and policy implications are drawn for early intervention and family support programs.

scholarly journals The Experience of Contemporary Peacekeepers Healing from Trauma

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
S. Ray
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Research Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Military Family ◽  
Effective Practice ◽  
Trauma Narratives ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Interpretive Inquiry ◽  
The Military

This research study was an interpretive inquiry into the experience of contemporary peacekeepers healing from trauma. Ten contemporary peacekeepers were interviewed who have sought treatment for trauma resulting from deployments to Somalia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia. A thematic analysis of the text was undertaken in which themes emerged to document and understand the ways in which contemporary peacekeepers suffer while healing from trauma. Narratives from the transcribed interviews were reviewed with the participants and reflective journaling by the researcher provided further clarification of the data to understand the experience. The peacekeepers’ descriptions of the situatedness of their bodies in time, space and relation provided a fresh way into understanding the embodied nature of suffering while healing from trauma. Three overarching themes: the centrality of brotherhood and grieving loss in the military family; the centrality of time and the body in suffering while healing from trauma; and the military response as betrayal and creating trauma from within emerged from the inquiry which will contribute to more effective practice guidelines for the care of contemporary peacekeepers suffering and healing from trauma.

Factors Associated with Spouses Moving away from Their Military Installation during an Overseas Deployment

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1275-1282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter R. Schumm ◽  
D. Bruce Bell ◽  
Benjamin Knott
Keyword(s):  
Social Exchange ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Military Family ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Military Installation ◽  
Military Support ◽  
The Military ◽  
Overseas Deployment

During overseas deployments, many spouses and families move away from their initial military installation, usually to live with or near relatives. Relatively little has been known about those who move away even though the issue is of importance to the military because its support systems are designed on the assumption that family members are living in proximity to those support systems. The purpose of this research was to describe the characteristics of those who actually moved away during a deployment compared to those who stayed but wanted to leave and to those who stayed. Results generally fit a social exchange model of reasons for moving, staying, or wanting to move but staying. High stress appears to lead to a desire to move but other factors act as barriers or facilitators to actually moving. Military family support did not predict moving away or staying. Implications for military support services are discussed.

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