Preventing Psychological Disorders in Service Members and Their Families: An Assessment of Programs.

摘要

Military personnel and their families confront numerous challenges to their psychological well-being. While many are similar to the stresses experienced by people not in the military, others derive from circumstances unique to the service members professional station in life. Particularly for military personnel deployed in conflict situations overseasincluding the hundreds of thousands who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq, physical and psychological traumas, such as those experienced in combat, can produce debilitating and sustained mental health burdens. The problems originating in overseas deployments often are visited upon the families of the service men and women as well, first because they have to adjust to an uncertain and worrisome life without their spouse or parent, and then because they have to readjust once the service member returns home.