Outputs (25)

Body image and psychosocial well-being among UK military personnel and veterans who sustained appearance-altering conflict injuries (2022)
Journal Article

A modest but significant number of military personnel sustained injuries during deployments resulting in an altered-appearance (e.g., limb loss and/or scarring). Civilian research indicates that appearance-altering injuries can affect psychosocial we... Read More about Body image and psychosocial well-being among UK military personnel and veterans who sustained appearance-altering conflict injuries.

(Loss of) the super soldier: Combat-injuries, body image and veterans’ romantic relationships (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: Some military personnel sustain physical injuries that alter their appearance, such as limb-loss and scarring. Veterans injured this way may experience body image distress and mental and physical wellbeing difficulties. While research with c... Read More about (Loss of) the super soldier: Combat-injuries, body image and veterans’ romantic relationships.

Perceptions of family acceptance into the military community among U.S. LGBT service members: A mixed-methods study (2021)
Journal Article

Introduction: Despite calls to increase representation of diverse family structures in military family research, little is known about the experiences of the families of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) service members (SMs). Using minor... Read More about Perceptions of family acceptance into the military community among U.S. LGBT service members: A mixed-methods study.

Combat injuries, body image and romantic relationships: A stakeholder workshop to specify new research directions (2020)
Report

The nature of military combat activities means personnel can receive injuries that result in a change to appearance, such as scarring and limb loss. Emerging evidence from ongoing research and public involvement work with combat-injured veterans ha... Read More about Combat injuries, body image and romantic relationships: A stakeholder workshop to specify new research directions.

Are we family? A scoping review of how military families are defined in mental health and substance use research (2020)
Journal Article

Introduction: While some families may experience poor mental health, substance use, and poor school performance due to service life, the usefulness and applicability of these research findings may be affected by how representative study participants... Read More about Are we family? A scoping review of how military families are defined in mental health and substance use research.

Symptom severity, self-efficacy and treatment-seeking for mental health among US Iraq/Afghanistan military veterans (2020)
Journal Article

Military veterans have high rates of mental health problems, yet the majority do not seek treatment. Understanding treatment-seeking in this population is important. This study investigated if symptom severity and self-efficacy are associated with tr... Read More about Symptom severity, self-efficacy and treatment-seeking for mental health among US Iraq/Afghanistan military veterans.

Direct and indirect effects of mindfulness, PTSD, and depression on self-stigma of mental illness in OEF/OIF veterans (2019)
Journal Article

Objective: Two of the most common and costly mental health diagnoses among military veterans who served in the post-9/11 conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq are posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, but over half of veterans who screen p... Read More about Direct and indirect effects of mindfulness, PTSD, and depression on self-stigma of mental illness in OEF/OIF veterans.

Associations between mindfulness, PTSD, and depression in combat deployed post-9/11 military veterans (2019)
Journal Article

Objectives: Combat experiences predict PTSD and depression in U.S. military veterans. However, few studies have investigated associations between mindfulness and these constructs. We examined main, direct, and indirect effects for mindfulness and com... Read More about Associations between mindfulness, PTSD, and depression in combat deployed post-9/11 military veterans.

Military spouses transition, too! a call to action to address spouses’ military to civilian transition (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis. Military to Civilian Transition (MCT) is the process experienced by military personnel as they leave service and return to civilian life. This MCT process is thought to be challenging across a range of key areas suc... Read More about Military spouses transition, too! a call to action to address spouses’ military to civilian transition.

Employment after the military (2018)
Book Chapter

The civilian employment of military veterans has been a concern of the United States government since the end of World War I. During this time, Congress created the first legislation surrounding the employment of military veterans. Despite many effo... Read More about Employment after the military.

Stories of transition: US Veterans’ narratives of transition to civilian life and the important role of identity (2018)
Journal Article

Introduction: To date, investigations of Veterans’ transition to civilian life after military service have tended to focus on the experiences of those with mental or physical health difficulties or on employment challenges and homelessness. This stud... Read More about Stories of transition: US Veterans’ narratives of transition to civilian life and the important role of identity.

Veterans’ civilian employment experiences: Lessons learnt from focus groups (2018)
Journal Article

Emerging evidence highlights employment as a key factor influencing the success of transition from military to civilian life. Historically, employment programs have focused on improving skills such as resume writing and interview skills. However, it... Read More about Veterans’ civilian employment experiences: Lessons learnt from focus groups.

The use of virtual clients for training behavioral health providers: Promises, challenges and the way ahead (2018)
Journal Article

Providing opportunities for training behavioral health providers in clinical practice remains a challenge within the helping professions. To date, the field has relied mostly on role-playing and the use of standardized actors to provide realistic cli... Read More about The use of virtual clients for training behavioral health providers: Promises, challenges and the way ahead.

Exploring U.S. Veterans’ post-service employment experiences (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © 2018 Society for Military Psychology, Division 19 of the American Psychological Association. Although most U.S. veterans transition to civilian life successfully, securing employment and reintegrating into civilian communities, some veteran... Read More about Exploring U.S. Veterans’ post-service employment experiences.

U.K. Army medical and unit welfare officers' perceptions of mental health stigma and its impact on army personnel's mental health help seeking (2017)
Journal Article

Mental health stigma and barriers to care (BTC) reportedly impede help seeking among U.K. military personnel. Military service providers’ perceptions of this link were investigated. Secondary thematic analysis of interviews with 21 U.K. Army unit wel... Read More about U.K. Army medical and unit welfare officers' perceptions of mental health stigma and its impact on army personnel's mental health help seeking.

Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Soldiers’ Experiences of Being Married and Serving in the British Army (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. ABSTRACT: Research suggests certain aspects of military life, especially operational deployments, may negatively impact military marriages. However, much of this research is from the United States an... Read More about Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Soldiers’ Experiences of Being Married and Serving in the British Army.

Marital status distribution of the U.K. military: Does it differ from the general population? (2016)
Journal Article

The U.K. media suggest that U.K. military personnel have high divorce rates; to date, these claims are not substantiated. Marital status distribution of the general population and military were compared using data from the Office for National Statist... Read More about Marital status distribution of the U.K. military: Does it differ from the general population?.

Cohesion, leadership, mental health stigmatisation and perceived barriers to care in UK military personnel (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Taylor & Francis. Background: Military research suggests a significant association between leadership, cohesion, mental health stigmatisation and perceived barriers to care (stigma/BTC). Aim: Most studies are cross sectional, therefore longi... Read More about Cohesion, leadership, mental health stigmatisation and perceived barriers to care in UK military personnel.

Mental health stigmatisation in deployed UK Armed Forces: A principal components analysis (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Royal Army Medical College. All rights reserved. Introduction UK military research suggests that there is a significant link between current psychological symptoms, mental health stigmatisation and perceived barriers to care (stigma/BTC). Few... Read More about Mental health stigmatisation in deployed UK Armed Forces: A principal components analysis.

Stigmatisation, perceived barriers to care, help seeking and the mental health of British Military personnel (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Introduction: The relationship between mental health symptoms, stigmatising beliefs about mental health and help seeking is complex and poorly understood. Method: 1636 UK Armed Forces personnel provided stud... Read More about Stigmatisation, perceived barriers to care, help seeking and the mental health of British Military personnel.

Relationship Difficulties Among U.K. Military Personnel: Impact of Sociodemographic, Military, and Deployment-Related Factors (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Military work, especially operational deployments, may impact the romantic relationships of military personnel. Using a subsample of 7,581 participants from a cohort study of U.K. military personnel (data collec... Read More about Relationship Difficulties Among U.K. Military Personnel: Impact of Sociodemographic, Military, and Deployment-Related Factors.

Mental health consequences of overstretch in the UK Armed Forces, 2007-09: A population-based cohort study (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Background: Concerns have been raised about the effect of tour length on the mental health of the UK armed forces. In 2007, we reported that cumulative length of deployment was associated with mental illness in military personnel... Read More about Mental health consequences of overstretch in the UK Armed Forces, 2007-09: A population-based cohort study.

Perceptions of the impact a military career has on children (2014)
Journal Article

© The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Occupational Medicine. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com. BACKGROUND: The perceived effects of a military career on ser... Read More about Perceptions of the impact a military career has on children.

Contrasting beliefs about screening for mental disorders among UK military personnel returning from deployment to Afghanistan (2012)
Journal Article

Objective The objective of the study was to elicit beliefs and experiences of the value of a screening programme for mental illness among UK military personnel. Method Three months after returning from Afghanistan 21 army personnel participated in a... Read More about Contrasting beliefs about screening for mental disorders among UK military personnel returning from deployment to Afghanistan.

Prevalence of health anxiety problems in medical clinics (2011)
Journal Article

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of significant health anxiety (hypochondriasis) in patients aged 16-75 in cardiology, respiratory medicine, neurological, endocrine and gastrointestinal clinics in general hospitals in London, Middlesex and Nor... Read More about Prevalence of health anxiety problems in medical clinics.