Deployment Psychology Blog

Research Update: 17 December 2020

The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include: 

● The impact of family stressors and resources on military spouse’s perception of post-deployment reunion stress.
● An advanced perspective on moral challenges and their health-related outcomes through an integration of the moral distress and moral injury theories.
● Coping and Mental Health Differences among Active Duty Service Members and Their Spouses with High and Low Levels of Marital Warmth.

Staff Perspective: Not Home for the Holidays

As a military Veteran and a military spouse, deployments were an accepted and many times anticipated part of my life. I met and married my Marine husband in Jacksonville, North Carolina. He was assigned to a Marine Special Ops Command and deployed regularly. For years two through six of our marriage, my husband was gone 10 months out of every year. Throughout the years, he has missed every holiday at least once. For some, I don’t think he has ever been home.  As I recently reflected on these missed holidays and the challenges that went along with them, I came up with a list of my 10 Holiday Survival Tips for a military family.

    Research Update: 10 December 2020

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    The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include: 
    ● Exploring the impact of COVID-19 and restrictions to daily living as a result of social distancing within Veterans with pre-existing mental health difficulties.
    ● Rates and Predictors of Deterioration in a Trial of Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Reducing Suicidal Thoughts.
    ● Magnitude of problematic anger and its predictors in the Millennium Cohort.

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