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IMPACT OF PARENT’S
MILITARY SERVICE ON
CHILDREN: IMPLICATIONS
FOR EDUCATION
PROFESSIONALS
The mission of the American School Health Association is to transform all schools into places where every student learns and thrives. The American School Health Association envisions healthy students who learn and achieve in safe and healthy environments nurtured by caring adults functioning within coordinated school and community support systems.
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TODAY’S PRESENTER:
Kathy Broniarczyk, M.Ed.
Senior Director of Outreach and Operations
Military Family Research Institute
Impact of Parent’s Military
Service on Children:
Implications for Education
Professionals
Kathy Broniarczyk, M.Ed.
Senior Director of Outreach and Operations
Military Family Research Institute
American School Health Association
Webinar
April 26, 2018
Presentation Objectives • Identify military affiliation in youth within your communities and the differences within this population • Review research findings about the challenges and benefits associated with being a military youth • Identify strategies education professionals can implement to support military youth in school environments
About the
Military Family Research Institute
• Nationally-recognized
• Founded in 2000 at Purdue University
• Conducts research on issues that affect military and
veteran families
• Works to shape policies, programs and practices
• Envisions a diverse support community that
understands the most pressing needs of military and
veteran families
My background • 25+ years working with military families • Direct the Family Support team at the Military Family Research Institute • Military Spouse (Active duty and National Guard) • Parent of “military youth”
Who are Military Youth?
There is a legal definition of
a military “dependent”:
Unmarried child under 21
(under 23 if enrolled in
higher education) of a
current service member or a
child that is incapable of
self-support because of
mental or physical
incapacity.
http://support.militaryfamily.org/site/DocServer/Definiton_of_a_Dependent_11-05.pdf?docID=3621This definition does not include: • Children of veterans • Children of service members who have “aged out” • Extended family members who might be impacted: siblings, grandchildren
Some important differences • Active Duty vs Selected Reserve – 24/7/365 vs part time – Branch of service – Geographical dispersion – Mobility – Isolation – “Suddenly military” – Community differences
Uncommon Experiences https://www.flickr.com/photos/usairforce/32194970036/
“military-civilian divide” • The extent to which civilians are becoming less connected to the military or civilian’s personal connections with someone in the military.
Some common stressors • Preparing for extended separations from a primary caretaker • Adjusting to altered family roles and responsibilities • Coping with increased stress on non-military parent/caretaker • Concern about safety of deployed parent • Conflicting emotions about parent’s military service • Coping with changes post-deployment
So, how are military youth doing?
Overall, military families and military children are
doing well – they are resilient.
Recent RAND study tracked 3,000 military families over three years:
• “Outcomes ranging from parenting stress to spousal depression to teenage
anxiety, the study highlighted what the researchers called the remarkable
resilience of military families.”
• Dramatic changes in family function are seen during the deployment, but a
slow but steady return to pre-deployment baselines. By the end of that
reintegration family relationships and well-being had generally returned to
pre-deployment levels.
Meadows, Sarah O., Terri Tanielian, and Benjamin Karney, eds., The Deployment Life Study: Longitudinal Analysis of Military Families Across the
Deployment Cycle. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2016. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1388.html. Also available in print form.2016 Survey of Active Duty
Spouses
http://download.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Surveys/2016-SOFS-Briefing-MCFP.pdfAlthough doing well overall, • Most current research looks at effects of one deployment • Concerns about repeated deployments in young children and the long term impact • Trying to identify risk and protective factors https://www.flickr.com/photos/marine_corps/37183458276/
Factors that predict child’s
difficulty with parent deployment
AMOUNT OF EXTERNAL
AT HOME PARENT’S
AGE OF PARENTS, SUPPORT A FAMILY
STRESS LEVEL LENGTH OF MARRIAGE, RECEIVES
AND LEVEL OF PARENTAL
EDUCATION
TOTAL NUMBER OF
AGE OF CHILD MONTHS OF
DEPLOYMENTS
Lester, P. (2010) The Long War and Parental Combat Deployment: Effects on Military Children and At-Home
Spouses, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 49,310-320.What about multiple deployments?
What are some other findings? • Young children had been separated an average of 18% of their lives • Being born during a deployment posed additional risks • Child social emotional adjustment was related to parental psychological health • Children with more than 2 risk factors were more likely to have negative outcomes • Presence of even 1 protective factor most children avoided negative outcomes
What are some things that can
help?What Parents see as important http://download.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Surveys/2016-SOFS-Briefing-MCFP.pdf
So, how can you as professionals
help?
• Know who the children are in your schools
– Most military connect youth are educated in community schools
– Military School Identifier (MSI): what is your state’s/school district’s
progress on this?
• Know what to look for in terms of warning signs
– Find the cause of challenging behavior
• Keep open lines of communication with the youth
• Keep your own political views out of the interactions
• Be the one adult who cares!
• Create your resource tool kitResources There are many resources you can tap into that can assist your efforts to support military youth in your schools https://www.mfri.purdue.edu/wp-content/uploads/resources/hth/HowToHelp_Teachers.pdf
Resource links • How to Helps: • https://www.mfri.purdue.edu/resources-and- research/how-to-help-series/ • Military Child Education Coalition: http://www.militarychild.org/ • Military Kids Connect: http://militarykidsconnect.dcoe.mil/ • Our Military Kids: http://ourmilitarykids.org/ • National Military Family Association: http://www.militaryfamily.org/ • Military One Source: http://www.militaryonesource.mil/
References
• Lester, P., Stein, J. A., Saltzman, W., Woodward, K., MacDermid, S. W., Milburn, N., … Beardslee,
W. (2013). Psychological health of military children: Longitudinal evaluation of a family-centered
prevention program to enhance family resilience. Military Medicine, 178(8), 838–845.
http://doi.org/10.7205/MILMED-D-12-00502
• Meadows, Sarah O., Terri Tanielian, and Benjamin Karney, eds., The Deployment Life Study:
Longitudinal Analysis of Military Families Across the Deployment Cycle. Santa Monica, CA: RAND
Corporation, 2016. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1388.html. Also available in
print form.
• MacDermid Wadsworth et.al (2014) The Intergenerational Impact of War: Deployment and Young
Children in Military Families, Military Family Research Institute, Purdue University.
• Jennifer S. Owlett, K. Andrew R. Richards, Steven R. Wilson, J. D. DeFreese & Felicia
Roberts (2015) Privacy Management in the Military Family during Deployment: Adolescents’
Perspectives, Journal of Family Communication, 15:2, 141-
158, DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2015.1013105
• Richardson, A., Chandra, A., Martin, L. T., Setodji, C. M., Hallmark, B. W., Campbell, N. F., ... &
Grady, P. (2011). Effects of soldiers' deployment on children's academic performance and
behavioral health. RAND ARROYO CENTER SANTA MONICA CA.Contact Us
kbroniar@purdue.edu
www.mfri.purdue.edu
765-496-3403
facebook.com/MFRIatPurdue
twitter.com/MFRIPurdueQ&A
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