scholarly journals Identifying psychological outcomes in families of Five Eyes alliance armed forces Veterans: A systematic review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cherie Armour ◽  
Eric Spikol ◽  
Emily McGlinchey ◽  
Rachael Gribble ◽  
Nicola T. Fear ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Children ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Outcomes ◽  
Intimate Partners ◽  
Military Veteran ◽  
Anxiety Depression

LAY SUMMARY Military service can affect the psychological health and well-being of ex-service members and their families. Most research prioritizes active duty families or Veterans, with spouses/intimate partners and adult children of Veterans often overlooked. This study reviewed all previous research on the psychological health of Veteran families within the Five Eyes alliance countries of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It found spouses/intimate partners had higher rates of anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) compared to national rates and were more likely to feel distress when their Veteran partner had mental health issues. Adult children were at higher risk for anxiety, depression, alcohol/substance misuse, and PTSD compared to national rates. Four themes identified were: personal feelings and internal emotions, Veteran-oriented, help and support, and acting as a unit. Due to the scarce available research, further studies are needed to address psychological outcomes among military Veteran families.

GI Religion and Post-War Revival in the United States and Great Britain

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Snape
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Post War ◽  
British Religion ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter identifies the wartime roots of the post-Second World War religious revival in the United States, stressing the importance of military service as a galvanizing force in religious terms. Far from being a product of the Cold War, or a simple echo of ‘foxhole religion’, the revival owed much to the privileged position of religion in America’s armed forces during the war years and to the resources devoted to their religious and moral well-being. Fortified by post-war prosperity and by the benefits of the GI Bill, US veterans were well placed to further the religious revival stirred by the war itself. The situation in Britain was very different. Although the war also had an invigorating effect on British religion, the economic situation of post-war Britain and the lot of veterans helped to ensure that a religious revival comparable to that in the USA failed to materialize.

scholarly journals MIlitary Combat Mental Health Framework

2020 ◽  
pp. bmjmilitary-2020-001439
Author(s):  
Martin Bricknell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mental Well Being ◽  
Military Combat

This paper describes a framework for understanding military combat mental health based on the possible mental ill-health consequences of exposure to ‘potential trauma events’ for members of the armed forces and after their military service as veterans. It uses a life course approach that maps an individual’s mental well-being against four ‘states’: fit, reacting, injured and ill. It then considers five categories of factors that influence the risk of mental illness from this exposure based on research evidence; prejoining vulnerability, resilience, precipitating, treatment and recovery. This framework offers a structure to debate current knowledge, inform policy and therapeutic interventions, provide education and to guide future research into the subject.

scholarly journals Declining mental health among disadvantaged Americans

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (28) ◽  
pp. 7290-7295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noreen Goldman ◽  
Dana A. Glei ◽  
Maxine Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Opioid Epidemic ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Modest Improvement ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Impact

Although there is little dispute about the impact of the US opioid epidemic on recent mortality, there is less consensus about whether trends reflect increasing despair among American adults. The issue is complicated by the absence of established scales or definitions of despair as well as a paucity of studies examining changes in psychological health, especially well-being, since the 1990s. We contribute evidence using two cross-sectional waves of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study to assess changes in measures of psychological distress and well-being. These measures capture negative emotions such as sadness, hopelessness, and worthlessness, and positive emotions such as happiness, fulfillment, and life satisfaction. Most of the measures reveal increasing distress and decreasing well-being across the age span for those of low relative socioeconomic position, in contrast to little decline or modest improvement for persons of high relative position.

Who Gets to Have a DREAM? Examining Public Support for Immigration Reform

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 527-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey P. R. Wallace ◽  
Sophia Jordán Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Public Support ◽  
College Education ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Mass Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Immigration

This article assesses how different notions of citizenship shape mass attitudes toward immigration reform. We examine the underpinnings of the military service and college education provisions that were at the center of the 2010 DREAM Act, which sought to provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrant youth in the United States. Employing a survey experiment on a nationally representative US sample, we unpack the extent to which the mass public is willing to support immigration reform based on criteria tied to undocumented immigrants’ educational attainment or enlistment in the armed forces. While education has little effect on its own, military service significantly increases public support for a pathway to citizenship. The positive effect of military service endures when it is paired with less popular provisions, suggesting that a military criterion can serve as a basis of support for broader immigration legislation. Moreover, the effects are strongest for those groups who are traditionally viewed as being most opposed to immigration reforms that expand access to citizenship. The results of this study have implications for public attitudes toward immigration, the persistence of the citizen-soldier ideal, and the importance of framing in the policy-making process.

PSYCHOSOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF COMBAT AND OPERATIONAL STRESS

2012 ◽  
Vol 164 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
Andrzej PIOTROWSKI
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
Stress Factors ◽  
Health Costs ◽  
Operational Stress ◽  
War Stress ◽  
Psychosocial Consequences

Almost 3% of the Polish Armed Forces is serving abroad. The service abroad is very much different from that in Poland and may result in many specific psychological, health and social costs. The article describes the evolution of opinions regarding war stress and presents the typical stress factors of soldiers, including those from the battlefield. The article is also a review of the results of Polish research regarding the psychological and health costs of military service under operational and battle conditions.

History and Memory of Female Military Service in the Age of World Wars

2020 ◽  
pp. 469-497
Author(s):  
Karen Hagemann
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
Home Front ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
War Powers ◽  
The Soviet Union

During the First and Second World Wars, women’s wartime service became increasingly important for the functioning of the home front and battlefront in Britain, Germany, Russia, the United States, and other war-powers. Hundreds of thousands of women served in the militaries of the belligerents during World War II. Scholars estimate that the percentage of women in the Allied armed forces reached up to 2–3 percent. The number of women in military service in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union was especially high, but only in the latter were they officially enlisted as soldiers. Despite their numbers and importance, until recently, mainstream historiography and public memory have largely ignored women’s military service. This chapter takes a closer, comparative look at women’s wartime service in the Age of the World Wars in history and memory and explains the paradox that while it was increasingly needed, it has long been downplayed and overlooked in public perception and memory in all war powers and across the ideological divide of the Cold War.

scholarly journals The place of occupational therapy in the comprehensive rehabilitation of participants of the Anti-Terrorist Operation/Joint Forces Operation taking into account world experience

TRAUMA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
V.S. Sulyma ◽  
Yu.O. Filiak ◽  
V.M. Krasnovskyi
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Test System ◽  
International Classification Of Functioning ◽  
Guidance Document ◽  
Canadian Association

Achieving health, well-being, and participation in life through engagement in occupation is the statement that describes the domain and process of occupational therapy in its fullest sense. This definition includes all areas of influence in occupational therapy: type of employment (level of active lifestyle: rest and sleep, education, work, pleasure, social participation), client factors (values, beliefs, spirituality, body functions and structures), skill performance (motor, process and social interaction skills), pattern performance (habits, routines, rituals, roles), environment (cultural, personal, physical, social, virtual). Occupational therapy in military service is difficult in its own way. The main feature is that veterans demand constant monitoring and support. These people are vulnerable to suicide. That’s why occupational therapist should not wait for their self-referral. Members of soldier’s family need to be actively involved in cooperation as well. Practical guidelines of colleagues from the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists “Working for the Canadian Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Canada” and “A Guidance Document for Occupational Therapists” are most suitable for the implementation in Ukrainian realities. Occupational therapy process starts with an assessment of functioning and disability in relation to a health condition. In Ukraine, an analogue of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (Order of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine dated 23.05.2018 No. 981) has been identified and introduced, which allows for a comprehensive functional assessment and further steps of planning, monitoring compliance, evaluation of occupational therapy. Primary screening is significantly facilitated by a test system developed by colleagues from different countries, which requires translation into Ukrainian and implementation. It would be appropriate to use a single base of servicemen for their distribution according to the priority of providing care that would optimize the start of occupational therapy. It is necessary to study in detail the long-term experience and advances of developed countries and integrate the promising experience of colleagues in military occupational therapy in Ukraine, which has a chance to become one of the promising specialties with a high level of military service.

scholarly journals Social Isolation Among Older Military Veterans

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 540-540
Author(s):  
Kirsten Laha-Walsh ◽  
Zainab Suntai
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Military Veterans ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
The United States ◽  
Civilian Life ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Socially Isolated

Abstract Social isolation is an increasingly critical issue among older adults and has been found to affect several domains of well-being, including physical, psychological, and cognitive health. Research has found that military veterans often experience hardships in the transition back to civilian life including emotional trauma, depression, substance misuse and pain from combat-related injuries, which have been shown to persist well into older adulthood. As such, this study aimed to examine the prevalence of social isolation among older military veterans and determine which veterans are most at-risk of experiencing social isolation, using the Berkman-Syme Social Network Index as a framework. Data were derived from Round 1 of the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), an annual longitudinal panel survey of adults aged 65 and older living in the United States. Results showed that about 4.5% of veterans in the NHATS are severely socially isolated while another 20.9% are socially isolated. After controlling for other explanatory variables, being White, being 85 and older, having lower educational attainment, being unmarried/unpartnered and having lower income were associated with an increased risk of experiencing social isolation. Interventions aiming to improve the well-being of older veterans should consider employing both preventative and amendatory measures. These may include the creation and administration of a standardized social isolation scale during visits to veterans’ affairs (VA) medical centers and a general effort to address stressors from military service by destigmatizing and improving access to mental health services.

Role Identity of a Serviceman

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-123
Author(s):  
Nurzhan Saparkhanovich Mekebaev ◽  
◽  
Julia Mihajlovna Perevozkina ◽  
Ekaterina Vladimirovna Veterok ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Military Personnel ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Military Service ◽  
System Approach ◽  
Heterogeneous Systems ◽  
General System ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Psychosocial Effects ◽  
Theoretical Contribution

The problem end purpose. The article deals with the problem of the role identity of military personnel through the prism of the meta-system approach. Purpose: to propose a theoretical model for the formation of the role identity of a soldier. Background. Military role identity is a significant factor that affects the self-esteem of military personnel, as well as the willingness to perform their professional duties both within Russia and abroad. Currently, there are still many gaps in the understanding of the role identity of military personnel and its connection with the specifics of military professional activities. Most scientific research on the role identity of military personnel is related to psychological health or well-being, rather than professional role behavior or the effectiveness of role acquisition. Method. The metasystem approach allows to integrate various multifunctional systems and to consider the systems in interaction with the metasystem, which is a more general system in relation to the primary one. Results. Within the framework of the meta-system approach, it is possible to constructively explain the structure of the role identity of military personnel as a system complex of a distributed type, consisting of five hierarchical levels and formed in the process of interaction of a number of heterogeneous systems (culture, society and personality). Conclusion. These results show that a number of psychosocial and cultural factors influence the formation of the role identity of the subject in the conditions of military service. The constructed model makes a theoretical contribution by suggesting how these psychosocial effects can arise, interact with each other, and evolve.

Settler Military Politics: On the Inclusion and Recognition of Indigenous People in the Military

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Caso
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Military Politics ◽  
Settler Society ◽  
The Military

Abstract After decades of refusal, neglect, and tacit admittance, the service of Indigenous people in the national armed forces of settler colonial states such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States is finally gaining acknowledgment. Indigenous people are now integrated in the regular forces and represented in national war commemoration. This article maintains that while inclusion and recognition of Indigenous military service is a positive transformation in the direction of post-colonial reconciliation, it still operates within the logics of settler colonialism intended to eradicate Indigenous stories of connection to land and assimilate Indigenous people in settler society. Using the case study of Indigenous militarization in Australia, this article argues that, under conditions of settler colonialism, the inclusion and recognition of Indigenous people in national militaries advances the settler colonial project intended to dispossess Indigenous people from their land and assimilate them in the new settler society. It highlights that historically, military organization has supported settler colonialism, and positions the present inclusion and recognition of Indigenous people in the military as a continuation of this history.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document