Behavioral Health Problems of Children of Military Offices

Throughout the years of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, we have seen the media coverage of newly deployed soldiers and returning the faces of children and spouses left at home heartbreaking meeting and happy when returning soldiers. Many military parents have experienced multiple deployments and expanded over the last decade, but only recently has attention turned to the effects on children whose parents are deployed. Recent studies indicate that children of military families with a deployed parent is under stress, causing an increase in visits to pediatric care for anxiety, behavioral disorders and other mental health problems (Chandra, Lara-Cinisomo, Jaycox, et al, 2010;. Chandra, Martin Hawkins, and Richardson, 2010; Chartrand, Frank, white, and Shope, 2008, Flake, Davis, Johnson & Middleton, 2009; Gorman, Eide, and Hist-Gorman, 2010 ).

Behavioral health problems of children of military families can be caused by stress to bring a parent. Main stress factors are the absence of the parents' / separation, long-distance parent is used by the mother or the father, the challenges to parents at home to support their families, adjusted when the parent returns to the introduction, without having worry about the use of the parent of safety and fear of death (often exacerbated by exposure to media), and changes in the position of the child in particular, older children can take some of the duties of care for younger siblings.

Research shows that families experience stress increases when a parent is activated, and the children experience a higher psycho-social behavioral manifestations of the parents is used than the normal population, says study author Eric M. Flake, MD, specializing in the U.S. Air Force Medical ...

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...ault tolerance, according to Flake.

"Clinical social workers provide much of the skills training support and resistance. And families with special needs, the social worker as an investment case manager can do wonders to keep the family," he said.

For social workers, without a military background working with military families, and recommends Chandra Chartrand learn about military life and the challenges of implementation, and develop an awareness of what it means to be part of military culture.

"For more than two-thirds of medical care for military children occurs in the community of non-military providers, it is important for civilian social workers who do not practice in the conventional military, such as around a basis, to pay attention to the specific needs of military children and how to access resources and better help these children, "says Gorman.