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"Once a Soldier, always a Soldier" until you're not: The effect of identity loss on mental health and well-being following military discharge. “一朝当兵，终身当兵”直到退役：退伍后身份丧失对心理健康和幸福感的影响。

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Military Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2025.2479895

Cameron Grant, Lydia Woodyatt, Henry Bowen, Jonathan Lane

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Exploring Moral Injury and Reintegration Challenges Among Post-9/11 U.S. Veterans: A Qualitative Study. 探索9/11后美国退伍军人的道德伤害和重返社会挑战：一项定性研究。

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Military Psychology Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2025.2486242

Leah Danson, Katrina Spontak, Ai-Nghia Do, Nicole Taylor, Matthew Stapleton, Nicholas Rattray

{"title":"Exploring Moral Injury and Reintegration Challenges Among Post-9/11 U.S. Veterans: A Qualitative Study.","authors":"Leah Danson, Katrina Spontak, Ai-Nghia Do, Nicole Taylor, Matthew Stapleton, Nicholas Rattray","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2025.2486242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08995605.2025.2486242","url":null,"abstract":"Military Veterans face many barriers when reintegrating into civilian society. A growing body of evidence shows that Veterans may experience identity confusion, social isolation, and moral pain during Veteran reintegration. These issues might compound with exposure to traumatic events, leading to the development of moral injury (MI). This study utilizes an exploratory, qualitative approach to look at the relationship between MI and Veteran reintegration to better understand their impact on each other. Twelve Veterans who endorsed experiences of MI completed a cognitive interview utilizing two existing measures of MI. MI and Veteran reintegration appeared to have a dynamic relationship that significantly impacted Veteran's experiences of moral emotions, their ability to trust others, disclose potentially morally injurious experiences, and make meaning of their service. Mental health practitioners may need to be especially attuned to and assess for MI in reintegrating Veterans, particularly as onset of MI may occur during reintegration as Veterans reflect on their military experiences and come to new moral conclusions. Clinicians and researchers must also foster a significant degree of trust to facilitate disclosure of potentially morally injurious experiences (PMIEs).","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143753444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Psychological, personal, and professional development needs of military mental health clinicians: Identifying implications for wellbeing and best practice utilizing the Delphi method. 军事心理健康临床医生的心理、个人和专业发展需求：利用德尔菲法确定对健康和最佳实践的影响。

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Military Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2025.2481342

Dorota O'Brien, John Bogue

{"title":"Psychological, personal, and professional development needs of military mental health clinicians: Identifying implications for wellbeing and best practice utilizing the Delphi method.","authors":"Dorota O'Brien, John Bogue","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2025.2481342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08995605.2025.2481342","url":null,"abstract":"Improving pathways of care should be based on a recognition of the distinct and specific groups of professionals within the military environment. This study looked to explore the types of development needs of military mental health providers, examine the implications of unmet needs, discover mitigating factors, and evaluate barriers and challenges experienced by uniformed healthcare staff. This research project used a mixed-method approach utilizing the Delphi Method to find consensus and measure importance. A group of 23 senior international military mental health experts (N = 23) took part in the study. Findings revealed that growth, respect, sense of belonging, satisfaction, competence, expertise, good communication, time for self-care, physical training, rest, and nutrition, were the most important needs. Main ways to mitigate the aversive effects of unmet needs were effective lines of communication and consideration of needs. The study found that neglecting the needs of clinicians caused wide-ranging implications, mainly burnout and stress, but also poor work motivation, poor treatment outcome, decreased morale, and lack of trust and belief in the organization. The Delphi methodology revealed that within the organizational domain, leaders' general support, having a team, and good relationships were crucial, while resilience, independence, sense of purpose, and sense of meaning were the key factors in the professional attribute category. Subject matter experts (SMEs) agreed that overwhelming demands posed the biggest challenge for this group of professionals.","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143730672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reduction in reintegration stress among post-9/11 Veterans in a clinical trial for trauma-related guilt. 9/11后退伍军人在创伤相关内疚的临床试验中减轻重返社会压力。

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Military Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2025.2479907

Kaitlyn E Panza, Alexander C Kline, Alexandra B Klein, Erica Johnson, Brittany C Davis, Michelle T Lyons, Christy Capone, Sonya B Norman

{"title":"Reduction in reintegration stress among post-9/11 Veterans in a clinical trial for trauma-related guilt.","authors":"Kaitlyn E Panza, Alexander C Kline, Alexandra B Klein, Erica Johnson, Brittany C Davis, Michelle T Lyons, Christy Capone, Sonya B Norman","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2025.2479907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08995605.2025.2479907","url":null,"abstract":"Reintegration stress is commonly reported by returning Veterans with post-trauma distress and associated with mental health and functioning difficulties. Interventions are needed to reduce reintegration stress and provide a pathway to improve Veterans' connections with their families, friends, and communities. The present study compared the effectiveness of Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction Therapy (TrIGR) and Supportive Care Therapy (SCT) in reducing reintegration stress, assessed by the Military to Civilian Questionnaire (M2C-Q) at post-treatment and 3- and 6-month follow-up. Data were derived from a randomized controlled trial treating U.S. military Veterans endorsing trauma-related guilt stemming from an event that occurred during deployment to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan (N = 145). Intent to treat analyses using mixed models indicated a significant treatment * time interaction (p = .004) whereby patients randomized to TrIGR reported significantly lower reintegration stress compared to those in SCT by the 6-month follow-up. Between-condition effect sizes were d = 0.11 at post-treatment and d = 0.37 and d = 0.57 at 3- and 6-month follow-up assessments, respectively. Targeting trauma-related guilt may be an effective pathway to help facilitate the process of reintegration to civilian life for some Veterans.","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143730673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Steeping in how "shut up and color" mindset manifests: Semantic analysis of open-ended responses for barriers to support seeking among veterans. 深入了解 "闭嘴上色 "心态的表现形式：对退伍军人寻求支持障碍的开放式回答进行语义分析。

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Military Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2025.2481673

Megumi Sakamoto, Nandita Chaudhuri

{"title":"Steeping in how \"shut up and color\" mindset manifests: Semantic analysis of open-ended responses for barriers to support seeking among veterans.","authors":"Megumi Sakamoto, Nandita Chaudhuri","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2025.2481673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08995605.2025.2481673","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the long use of surveys in veterans' needs assessments, a disconnect persists between the veterans' needs and the available services. This study employs a hermeneutical framework to semantically analyze open-ended responses and investigate how veterans' perceptions of service barriers are formed. We analyzed 3,325 open-ended responses specifying their perceived barriers in Texas Veterans Needs Survey data from 2023 (n = 16,733). Our analysis revealed that the hurdles stem from the combination of (1) obedience to authority, (2) covert mental health challenges, (3) hopelessness, and (4) self-defeating prophecy created by complex systems and lack of trust. For instance, many reported being told they were not eligible for services or only hinted at their psychological struggles as a hurdle rather than explicitly citing a history of denial or mental health conditions. Fear of unwanted consequences, procrastination due to the self-sufficient mindset, and comparisons to other veterans were observed in relation to the \"military mind-set.\" Minorities and those who withheld their demographic information were more presented in the analytical sample than in the overall survey. Contextualization of qualitative data revealed how the military mindset is intertwined with the veterans' service-seeking behavior. The findings may improve the interpretability and validity of future veteran needs assessments.","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Self-distancing is positively related to higher scores during U.S. Army (USA) Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) advanced leadership training. 自我距离与美国陆军预备役军官训练团（ROTC）高级领导能力训练中的高分正相关。

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Military Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2025.2480481

Walter J Sowden, Neil A Lewis, Rachell L Jones

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Contribution of social support and partner communication quality to mental health among combatants' partners. 社会支持和伴侣沟通质量对战斗人员伴侣心理健康的贡献。

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Military Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2025.2470480

Liat Kulik, Anita Zorchinsky

{"title":"Contribution of social support and partner communication quality to mental health among combatants' partners.","authors":"Liat Kulik, Anita Zorchinsky","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2025.2470480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08995605.2025.2470480","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the relationship between social support and communication quality among combatants and their partners, and the partners' mental health during Israel's Swords of Iron War against Hamas. Mental health was assessed through emotional, social, and psychological dimensions. Communication quality was evaluated by assessing both positive and negative aspects of electronic and face-to-face channels. The sample included 201 women in various relationship statuses with men who were recruited as combatants: married, cohabiting, and in a stable relationship. Most women reported positive electronic and face-to-face communication with their partners during the war. Nonetheless, nearly 20% mentioned an increase in the negative aspects of face-to-face communication compared to pre-war conditions. Negative communication correlated with poorer psychological health. No direct link was found between positive communication and mental health. However, an indirect relationship was observed, with perceived social support serving as a mediator. The psychological dimension ranked highest among the mental health dimensions, followed by the social dimension, with the lowest ranking found for the emotional dimension.","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143663942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The mediating role of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in pain cognitions among Veterans with chronic pain. 创伤后应激障碍症状对慢性疼痛退伍军人疼痛认知的中介作用。

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Military Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-04 Epub Date: 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2024.2309897

David E Reed, Elizabeth A Lehinger, Briana Cobos, Rhonda M Williams, Cindy A McGeary, Donald D McGeary

{"title":"The mediating role of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in pain cognitions among Veterans with chronic pain.","authors":"David E Reed, Elizabeth A Lehinger, Briana Cobos, Rhonda M Williams, Cindy A McGeary, Donald D McGeary","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2309897","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2309897","url":null,"abstract":"Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are highly prevalent among Veterans with chronic pain. Considerable research has examined the intersection of chronic pain and PTSD symptoms. However, it remains unclear whether changes in PTSD may potentially serve a mechanistic role in improving unhelpful pain cognitions for individuals with chronic pain. The present research contributes to the foundational knowledge by addressing this question. Baseline data from a randomized controlled trial targeting pain-related disability for Veterans (n = 103; mean age 43.66; SD = 10.17) with musculoskeletal pain and depression and/or PTSD symptoms were used. Cross-sectional mediation analyses showed that PTSD symptoms mediated the relationship between pain severity and pain catastrophizing, and between pain severity and pain acceptance. After controlling for depression, the mediation involving pain catastrophizing remained significant, while the mediation for pain acceptance did not. Although limitations exist, results point to several treatment recommendations, including ensuring that depressive affect, PTSD-specific symptoms, and attention to both body and mind are included in treatment. Results also provide preliminary evidence for examining these associations longitudinally to improve our understanding of this population and corresponding treatment recommendations.","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"95-104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11849920/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139913058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An automated content-based measure of closed loop communication among critical care air transport teams. 基于内容的重症医疗空中转运团队闭环沟通自动测量方法。

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Military Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-04 Epub Date: 2024-03-05 DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2024.2322901

F Eric Robinson, David Grimm, Dain Horning, Jamie C Gorman, Jennifer Winner, Christopher W Wiese

{"title":"An automated content-based measure of closed loop communication among critical care air transport teams.","authors":"F Eric Robinson, David Grimm, Dain Horning, Jamie C Gorman, Jennifer Winner, Christopher W Wiese","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2322901","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2322901","url":null,"abstract":"Successful teamwork is essential to ensure critical care air transport (CCAT) patients receive effective care. Despite the importance of team performance, current training methods rely on subjective performance assessments and do not evaluate performance at the team level. Researchers have developed the Team Dynamics Measurement System (TDMS) to provide real-time, objective measures of team coordination to assist trainers in providing CCAT aircrew with feedback to improve performance. The first iteration of TDMS relied exclusively on communication flow patterns (i.e., who was speaking and when) to identify instances of various communication types such as closed loop communication (CLC). The research presented in this paper significantly advances the TDMS project by incorporating natural language processing (NLP) to identify CLC. The addition of NLP to the existing TDMS resulted in greater accuracy and fewer false alarms in identifying instances of CLC compared to the previous flow-based implementation. We discuss ways in which these improvements will facilitate instructor feedback and support further refinement of the TDMS.","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"168-174"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11849946/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140028488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Predicting soldier retention from army spouse characteristics and attitudes: Soldiering on with spouse support. 从军队配偶的特征和态度预测士兵留用情况：在配偶支持下继续当兵。

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Military Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-04 Epub Date: 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2024.2319014

Carra S Sims, Thomas E Trail, Jessie Coe

{"title":"Predicting soldier retention from army spouse characteristics and attitudes: Soldiering on with spouse support.","authors":"Carra S Sims, Thomas E Trail, Jessie Coe","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2319014","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2319014","url":null,"abstract":"The U.S. Army has a vested interest in retaining the skilled personnel necessary to achieve its mission and strategic goals. A wealth of research has investigated the retention process and what influences service member decisions to stay in the military. While families are an important influence on soldier retention decisions, research on the mechanism by which this happens is lacking. This report explores the relationship between spouse attitudes and perceptions, resource use, and soldier retention almost two years later, using a proposed theoretical model. Our results generally support our model, with the important change that resource use and unmet needs and stress were not directly associated with specific attitudes toward staying in the military as we had expected. Instead, the association was accounted for by relationship with general attitudes toward the military. Spouses whose needs were unmet after seeking help from available resources experienced greater stress, and spouse unmet needs and reports of greater stress were associated with worse general attitudes toward the military; worse general attitudes toward the military were associated with less inclination to stay a military family; which in turn predicted soldier turnover almost two years later. As the research in this report shows, providing benefits to military spouses is also associated with a tangible and important outcome for the military: improved service member retention.","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"105-116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11849917/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139983278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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