Army home visitors’ implementation of military family violence prevention programming in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

IF 1.9 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES

Couple and Family Psychology-Research and Practice Pub Date : 2021-09-09 DOI:10.1037/cfp0000193

A. Ferrara, M. Kaye, Grejika Abram-Erby, Sean Gernon, D. Perkins

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Abstract

The Army New Parent Support Program (Army NPSP) provides home visitation services that promote positive parenting strategies and aims to prevent family violence for expectant military parents and military families with children from birth to age 3. Since the onset of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), Army NPSP services have rapidly adapted to a telehealth model to fit with the suggested practices of physical distancing. Employing a grounded theory approach, nine virtual focus groups with 30 Army NPSP home visitors across eight installations were conducted to examine how this rapid shift has impacted their services, practice, and professional role. The present study identified two overarching themes: (1) working with families (e.g., continued engagement with families, increased communication, shifting family needs) and (2) adjusting to telework (e.g., technology, professional collaboration and communication, professional growth). Findings from these focus groups indicated that home visitors were actively engaged with their clients and experienced both challenges and benefits of telehealth. While the rapid transition was a big change, and home visitors missed the face-to-face interactions, they expressed that they were adapting and improving their virtual service delivery with time. Increased concerns regarding families' well-being due to social and physical isolation, increased symptoms of anxiety and depression, and grief for losses due to COVID-19, along with the ability to continue connections with these highly mobile families, points to the importance of telehealth as a means to implement parenting programs vital to military family well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)

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在2019冠状病毒病大流行背景下，军队家访人员实施军人家庭暴力预防规划

陆军新父母支持方案(陆军NPSP)提供家访服务，促进积极的养育策略，目的是为即将出生的军人父母和子女从出生到3岁的军人家庭防止家庭暴力。自新型冠状病毒(COVID-19)爆发以来，陆军NPSP服务已迅速适应远程医疗模式，以适应建议的物理距离实践。采用扎根理论的方法，9个虚拟焦点小组与30名陆军NPSP家庭访问者在8个设施中进行了调查，以检查这种快速转变如何影响他们的服务，实践和专业角色。本研究确定了两个主要主题:(1)与家庭合作(例如，继续与家庭接触，增加沟通，改变家庭需求)和(2)适应远程工作(例如，技术，专业协作和沟通，专业成长)。这些焦点小组的调查结果表明，家庭访问者积极参与其客户的工作，并体验到远程保健的挑战和好处。虽然快速的转变是一个巨大的变化，家庭访问者错过了面对面的互动，但他们表示，随着时间的推移，他们正在适应和改善他们的虚拟服务交付。由于社会和身体隔离，对家庭福祉的担忧日益增加，焦虑和抑郁症状的增加，以及因COVID-19造成的损失的悲伤，以及继续与这些高度流动的家庭保持联系的能力，表明远程医疗作为实施对军人家庭福祉至关重要的育儿方案的重要性。(PsycInfo数据库记录(c) 2021 APA，版权所有)

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Couple and Family Psychology-Research and Practice FAMILY STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice ® (CFP) is a scholarly journal publishing peer-reviewed papers representing the science and practice of family psychology. CFP is the official publication of APA Division 43 (Society for Couple and Family Psychology) and is intended to be a forum for scholarly dialogue regarding the most important emerging issues in the field, a primary outlet for research particularly as it impacts practice and for papers regarding education, public policy, and the identity of the profession of family psychology. As the official journal for the Society, CFP will provide a home for the members of the division and those in other fields interested in the most cutting edge issues in family psychology. Unlike other journals in the field, CFP is focused specifically on family psychology as a specialty practice, unique scientific domain, and critical element of psychological knowledge. CFP will seek and publish scholarly manuscripts that make a contribution to the knowledge base of family psychology specifically, and the science and practice of working with individuals, couples and families from a family systems perspective in general.