19 Intimate Partners
Blais, R. K., Brignone, E., Fargo, J. D., Galbreath, N. W., & Gundlapalli, A. V. (2018). Assailant identity and self-reported nondisclosure of military sexual trauma in partnered women veterans. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 10(4), 470–474. (2017-45361-001).
Dekel, R., Siegel, A., Fridkin, S., & Svetlitzky, V. (2018). The double-edged sword: The role of empathy in military veterans’ partners distress. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 10(2), 216–224. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0000265
Fischer, M. S., Bhatia, V., Baddeley, J. L., Al‐Jabari, R., & Libet, J. (2018). Couple therapy with veterans: Early improvements and predictors of early dropout. Family Process, 57(2), 525–538. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12308
Franz, M. R., Kaiser, A. P., Phillips, R. J., Lee, L. O., Lawrence, A. E., Taft, C. T., & Vasterling, J. J. (2020). Associations of warzone veteran mental health with partner mental health and family functioning: Family Foundations Study. Depression and Anxiety, 37(11), 1068–1078. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.23083
Mackintosh, M.-A., Schaper, K. M., Willis, E. A., Edland, S., Liu, C., & White, L. R. (2018). Effects of military service on marital stability among World War II U.S. veterans of Japanese descent. Military Medicine, 183(9–10). https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usy091
McGaw, V. E., Reupert, A. E., & Maybery, D. (2020). Partners of veterans with PTSD: Parenting and family experiences. Families in Society, 101(4), 456–468. https://doi.org/10.1177/1044389420905753
Rosenfeld, E. A., Miller, E., Zhao, X., Sileanu, F. E., Mor, M. K., & Borrero, S. (2018). Male partner reproductive coercion among women veterans. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 218(2), 239.e1-239.e8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajog.2017.10.015
Smith, T. W., Baron, C. E., Caska-Wallace, C. M., Knobloch-Fedders, L. M., Renshaw, K. D., & Uchino, B. N. (2020). PTSD in veterans, couple behavior, and cardiovascular response during marital conflict. Emotion, https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000727
Trone, D. W., Powell, T. M., Bauer, L. M., Seelig, A. D., Peterson, A. V., Littman, A. J., … Boyko, E. J. (2018). Smoking and drinking behaviors of military spouses: Findings from the millennium cohort family study. Addictive Behaviors, 77, 121–130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.09.015
Waddell, E., Lawn, S., Roberts, L., Henderson, J., Venning, A., & Redpath, P. (2020). “Why do you stay?”: The lived-experience of partners of Australian veterans and first responders with posttraumatic stress disorder. Health & Social Care in the Community, 28(5), 1734–1742. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12998
Quality of Life
Abbasi, S., Dokaneifard, F., & Shafiabadi, A. (2019). The comparison of the effectiveness of emotionally focused therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy on family cohesion and marital satisfaction of veteran’ wives in Khoramabad city. Journal of Psychological Science, 17(71), 823–829.
Blais, R. K. (2020). Lower intimate relationship satisfaction among partnered female service members/veterans is associated with the presence of suicidal ideation. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 76(7), 1353–1361. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22939
Goodson, P. R. (2020). How eLearning can decrease challenges of informal family caregivers of service members & veterans with invisible injuries. Journal of Veterans Studies, 6(1), 188–199. https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v6i1.162
Heydari, A., Fayyazi Bordbar, M., Ebrahimi, M., & Meshkinyazd, A. (2020). The impact of spiritual care skills on quality of life in spouses of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Caring Sciences, 9(4), 220–224. https://doi.org/10.34172/jcs.2020.033
Huston, J. C., Grillo, A. R., Iverson, K. M., & Mitchell, K. S. (2019). Associations between disordered eating and intimate partner violence mediated by depression and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in a female veteran sample. General Hospital Psychiatry, 58, 77–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2019.03.007
Laws, H. B., Glynn, S. M., McCutcheon, S. J., Schmitz, T. M., & Hoff, R. (2018). Posttraumatic stress symptom change after family involvement in veterans’ mental health care. Psychological Services, 15(4), 520–528. https://doi.org/10.1037/ser0000200
Yang, M. S., Quach, L., Lee, L. O., III, A. S., & Burr, J. A. (2020). Subjective well-being among male veterans in later life: The enduring effects of early life adversity. Aging & Mental Health, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2020.1842999
Zamir, O., Gewirtz, A. H., Labella, M., DeGarmo, D. S., & Snyder, J. (2018). Experiential avoidance, dyadic interaction and relationship quality in the lives of veterans and their partners. Journal of Family Issues, 39(5), 1191–1212. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X17698182
Therapy
Hariri, P., Etemadi, O., & Abedi, A. (2019). the effect of imago relationship therapy for couples on marital stability in veteran couples. Journal of Research in Behavioural Sciences, 17(2), 182–192.
Huffman, A. H., Dunbar, N., Broom, T. W., & Castro, C. A. (2018). Soldiers’ perspectives of the Married Army Couples Program: A review of perceived problems and proposed solutions. Military Psychology, 30(4), 335–349. https://doi.org/10.1080/08995605.2018.1478537
Norona, J. C., Borsari, B., Armstrong, K., & Shonkwiler, S. (2020). Veterans’ treatment engagement and dropout from couple and family therapy in a Veterans Affairs health care system. Military Behavioral Health, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/21635781.2020.1864526
Stolldorf, D. P., Fortune-Britt, A. G., Nieuwsma, J. A., Gierisch, J. M., Datta, S. K., Angel, C., … Jackson, G. L. (2018). Measuring sustainability of a grassroots program in a large integrated health care delivery system: The warrior to soul mate program. Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.3138/jmvfh.2017-0007
Thompson-Hollands, J., Strage, M., DeVoe, E. R., Beidas, R. S., & Sloan, D. M. (2020). Development of a brief adjunctive intervention for family members of veterans in individual PTSD treatment. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpra.2020.06.007
Violence
Albright, D. L., McDaniel, J., Godfrey, K., Carlson, C., Fletcher, K. L., & Thomas, K. H. (2020). Intimate partner violence among service members and veterans: Differences by sex and rurality. Traumatology, https://doi.org/10.1037/trm0000236
Bartlett, B. A., Iverson, K. M., & Mitchell, K. S. (2018). Intimate partner violence and disordered eating among male and female veterans. Psychiatry Research, 260, 98–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.11.056
Brignone, E., Sorrentino, A. E., Roberts, C. B., & Dichter, M. E. (2018). Suicidal ideation and behaviors among women veterans with recent exposure to intimate partner violence. General Hospital Psychiatry, 55, 60–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2018.10.006
Cancio, R., & Altal, D. (2019). Comparing post-Gulf War and post-9/11 era of service among veterans: Intimate partner violence and substance use by race and ethnicity. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 0(0), 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2019.1571978
Hicken, B., & Taylor, L. (2018). Vulnerable veterans in rural areas: Reducing risk and improving access to care. Innovation in Aging, 2(S1), 607. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igy023.2258
Hinton, C. E. (2020). Unintended consequences: Intimate partner violence, military caregivers, and the law. Journal of Veterans Studies, 6(1), 211–225. https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v6i1.166
Iverson, K. M., Dichter, M. E., Stolzmann, K., Adjognon, O. L., Lew, R. A., Bruce, L. E., Gerber, M. R., Portnoy, G. A., & Miller, C. J. (2020). Assessing the Veterans Health Administration’s response to intimate partner violence among women: Protocol for a randomized hybrid type 2 implementation-effectiveness trial. Implementation Science, 15(1), 29. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-020-0969-0
Iverson, K. M., Sayer, N. A., Meterko, M., Stolzmann, K., Suri, P., Gormley, K., Nealon Seibert, M., Yan, K., & Pogoda, T. K. (2020). Intimate partner violence among female OEF/OIF/OND veterans who were evaluated for traumatic brain injury in the Veterans Health Administration: A preliminary investigation. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 35(13–14), 2422–2445. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260517702491
Montgomery, A. E., Sorrentino, A. E., Cusack, M. C., Bellamy, S. L., Medvedeva, E., Roberts, C. B., & Dichter, M. E. (2018). Recent intimate partner violence and housing instability among women veterans. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 54(4), 584–590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2018.01.020
Pierce, M. E., Fortier, C., Fonda, J. R., Milberg, W., & McGlinchey, R. (2020). Intimate partner violence predicts posttraumatic stress disorder severity independent of early life and deployment-related trauma in deployed men and women veterans. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 0886260520938514. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520938514
Rossi, F. S., Shankar, M., Buckholdt, K., Bailey, Y., Israni, S. T., & Iverson, K. M. (2020). Trying times and trying out solutions: Intimate partner violence screening and support for women veterans during COVID-19. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35(9), 2728–2731. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05990-0
Stacer, M. J., & Solinas-Saunders, M. (2018). Criminal thinking among men beginning a batterer intervention program: The relevance of military background. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 27(2), 199–219. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2017.1382640
Yu, B., Montgomery, A. E., True, G., Cusack, M., Sorrentino, A., Chhabra, M., & Dichter, M. E. (2020). The intersection of interpersonal violence and housing instability: Perspectives from women veterans. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 90(1), 63–69. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000379