The Military family in peace and war

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.

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Physical education and sport in the activities of the Military Family Association in the years of the Second Polish Republic

Prace Naukowe Akademii im Jana Długosza w Częstochowie Kultura Fizyczna ◽

10.16926/kf.2017.16.15 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 63-95

Author(s):

Aleksy Chmiel

Keyword(s):

Physical Education ◽

Military Family ◽

The Military

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War and the Military Family

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry ◽

10.1097/00004583-201004000-00002 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 49 (4) ◽

pp. 297-299

Author(s):

Gail H. Manos

Keyword(s):

Military Family ◽

The Military

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The Experience of Contemporary Peacekeepers Healing from Trauma

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/s0924-9338(09)71495-6 ◽

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.

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