The weekly Research Update contains the latest news, journal articles, useful links from around the web. Some of this week's topics include:
● Emotional Awareness in Daily Life: Exploring its Potential Role in Repetitive Thinking and Healthy Coping.
● Barriers and Facilitators to Help-Seeking for Individuals With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Systematic Review.
● Sleep loss is related to unstable stationary balance in U.S. Army Soldiers in an operationally-relevant context.
● Self-compassion and cognitive flexibility in trauma-exposed individuals with and without PTSD.
Despite the current COVID-19 pandemic, our Service members are still preparing to deploy and stand the watch in critical locations around the world and now at home. The current crisis has made deployments even more disruptive with deployment extensions and last-minute activations as our nation and states embrace for the consequences of this pandemic while maintaining our overseas presence. The personal impact of these deployments is still significant for our service members and their families, and especially for their children.
Lliving among a robust military community and working with military children and adolescents and their families brings to mind that, for the most part, military children are extremely resilient and certainly have more strengths than weaknesses. (See my blog on Celebrating & Caring for the Military Child: Honoring our Youngest Heroes Year-Round). In fact, military kids tend to flex, adapt and overcome in parallel to their parent’s experiences.