Inseparable highlights the healing power of service and companion dogs for war veterans who have suffered emotional and physical injuries on the battlefield. This multimedia project profiles Ryan Major, a U.S. Army infantryman severely injured in 2006, and his German shepherd se…
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A growing body of research highlights the unique support people can perceive from their God concepts, fellow religious participants, and religious leaders—collectively referred to as religious support. The current study was the first to examine religious support among women and …
By May of 2021, the conflict in the Middle East will have become the longest war in U.S. history, with some members serving in the force when they had not even been old enough to recall the events of 9/11. During this lengthy conflict, many service members experienced various le…
Background Recent conflicts have seen an increase in trauma related military amputees who incur complex injuries which result in varied residual limbs. In many cases these amputees have been provided with state of the art (SOTA) components with the expectation that they will tra…
Meaning-making coping is an essential process for recovery from combat trauma. The meanings that combat veterans make after combat trauma, the meaning-based processes they utilize, and the social interactions they experience have not been compared across outcomes. This study was…
This study investigated how news media communications affect public awareness and perceptions of the mental health concerns of post-deployed military of the recent Iraq war. Focus group research included 22 adult participants from the same geographic location with discussions on…
With soldiers returning home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the diagnosis and treatment of combat-related mental health issues is more important than ever. According to the Veteran's Administration National Center for PTSD, Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Free…
This study demonstrates how Iraq War veteran readjustment is a socially and morally mediated process, involving cultural and structural mechanisms that produce distinct, ordered phases of subjective experience. This finding, based on data from thirty-five interviews, is exemplif…
Afghanistan and Iraq war student-veterans have increased in population on college campuses in the United States (U.S.) as a result of using the Post 9/11 GI Bill. Healthy Campus 2020 (American College Health Association, 2012) highlighted the importance of college student wellbe…
There have been increased concerns regarding readjustment issues for military veterans after combat service that can include problems related to intimate relationships. Approximately two million service members have served in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq the past decade. This st…
War has been happening for centuries. Women have been in the United States Armed Forces since the War of Independence in 1775, with very little research done on how war affects these women once on the home front. The purpose of my research is to evaluate the role of communicatio…
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars tremendously increased the demand among veterans for mental health services. About two in every five veterans returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom will have mental health challenges -- resulting in 500,000 to 800,000…
The purpose of the present study was to provide a clinical explanation of how verbal learning occurs or fails to occur in veterans who exhibit symptoms of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the combined effects of both disorders. The ar…
This documentary short film is about a now 30-year-old transgender man telling his story of growing up queer in a small Arkansas town, from being outed as a lesbian in high school, to ultimately being accepted as a trans man by members of his military and biological families. Be…
Searching for Benny’s Grave is the memoir of a highly accomplished middle-aged woman who still yearns for the love of her ninety-year-old father—a former Nazi prisoner of war and veteran of three wars. The woman and her father are survivors. The narrator feels that her father re…
Background: Concern has been voiced over the needs of ex-military personnel following their discharge from military service and subsequent transition to community living. This concern has extended to include veterans, particularly those who have mental health, drug or alcohol pr…