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Parental Military Deployment and Children: What Have We Learned from More than a Decade of War?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Alfano & Simon Lau, Department of Psychology, University of Houston. A common saying in the military is that when one person joins the whole family serves. For many military families, geographic relocations, disrupted family routines, financial hardships, and fear of losing a loved one became a way of life.

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News Items – August 11, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Elizabeth (Potter) Kemfort is a member: Saint Leo University MSW Alumna Positively Impacting Veterans, Teens. Saint Leo University. Being a teen is hard enough, but with the current adolescent mental health crisis , parents should know about the psychosocial challenges — from stress to suicidal thoughts — teens face nowadays.

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Rethinking the sufficient dose needed for PTSD treatment

Society of Clinical Psychology

Sloan is Associate Director, Behavioral Science Division, National Center for PTSD and Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine. She is an expert on psychosocial interventions for traumatic stress disorders and has a specific interest in efficient treatment approaches for PTSD. Military Medicine, 178 , 939-944.

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