Family as a Total Package: Restoring and Enhancing Psychological Health for Citizen Soldiers and Families
Abstract
The overall objectives of this study are to: (I) demonstrate the effectiveness of the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program (YRRP); and (II) examine the role and potential of the YRRP as a post-deployment, community-building platform to restore and to enhance the psychological health of service members and their family members. The National Defense Authorization Act in 2008 (P.L. 110-181) mandated a nation-wide expansion of the YRRP; it represents one of the DoD s responses to the reintegration needs of returning service members and their families. Following from these overall objectives, study specific aims are: (1) demonstrate the efficacy of the YRRP as a military family-centered reintegration training program; (2) examine enhanced learning effects due to family member participation in the YRRP; (3) identify program components and contexts that enhance self-efficacy for restoring and enhancing psychological health; (4) identify the psychological health, family, and other reintegration needs, and service use, and barriers to care among service members and families; (5) identify dyadic relations which decrease the chance of service members long-term psychological injuries; and (6) deliver recommendations to develop evidence-based, family, postvention resiliency-building programs tailored to YRRP.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 14, 2014
- Accession Number
- ADA599226
Entities
People
- Rumi K. Price
- William True
Organizations
- Washington University in St. Louis