The Impact of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Partners and Children of Australian Vietnam Veterans

Westerink, Jan; Giarratano, Leah

doi:10.1046/j.1440-1614.1999.00638.x

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“…Compared to the partners of non-veterans, the partners of Australian Vietnam veterans with PTSD reported higher levels of somatic complaints, depression, anxiety, insomnia, social difficulties, and family conflict, and lower levels of self-esteem, family cohesion, and family expressiveness (Westerink and Giarratano 1999). In a similar study, spouses of Australian Vietnam veterans were more likely to report depression if the veteran had PTSD (O'Toole et al 2010).…”

Section: Domestic Violencementioning

confidence: 85%

“…Later studies of children of Vietnam veterans with PTSD showed elevated levels of psychopathology on MMPI and MMPI-II scales and elevated hostility compared to population norms (Beckham et al 1997). In Australia, children of Vietnam veterans with PTSD reported higher levels of family conflict, but not psychological distress, when compared to children of non-veterans in terms of psychological distress or self-esteem (Westerink and Giarratano 1999). Another study of children of Australian Vietnam veterans with PTSD reported poor family problemsolving and poor family affective responsiveness, but not selfesteem, PTSD symptomatology, or other measures of family functioning, compared to children of veterans without PTSD or children of non-veterans (Davidson and Mellor 2001).…”

Section: Child Healthmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Long-Term Trajectories and Service Needs for Military Families

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Palinkas

2013

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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The deployment of US military personnel to recent conflicts has been a significant stressor for their families; yet, we know relatively little about the long-term family effects of these deployments. Using data from prior military service eras, we review our current understanding of the long-term functioning and needs of military families. These data suggest that overseas deployment, exposure to combat, experiencing or participating in violence during war deployment, service member injury or disability, and combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) all have profound impacts on the functioning of military families. We offer several recommendations to address these impacts such as the provision of family-centered, trauma-informed resources to families of veterans with PTSD and veterans who experienced high levels of combat and war violence. Recent efforts to address the needs of caregivers of veterans should be evaluated and expanded, as necessary. We should also help military families plan for predictable life events likely to challenge their resilience and coping capacities. Future research should focus on the following: factors that mediate the relationship between PTSD, war atrocities, caregiver burden, and family dysfunction; effective family-centered interventions that can be scaled-up to meet the needs of a dispersed population; and system-level innovations necessary to ensure adequate access to these interventions.

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Section: Domestic Violencementioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Child Healthmentioning

confidence: 98%

Long-Term Trajectories and Service Needs for Military Families

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Palinkas

2013

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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“…Although these studies are consistent with our failure to find a link between paternal PTSD and PTSD in Holocaust offspring, these studies differ because the other parent was not specifically exposed to trauma. Although PTSD in combat veterans has been known to affect spouses as well as offspring (Dekel & Solomon, 2006;Franciskovic et al, 2007), it has also been proposed that the effect of paternal combat PTSD on offspring may be partially buffered by non-affected wives of these veterans (Westerink & Giarratano, 1999). Yet, the contribution of maternal trauma or PTSD in such studies has not been examined.…”

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confidence: 99%

Maternal, not paternal, PTSD is related to increased risk for PTSD in offspring of Holocaust survivors

Yehuda

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Bierer

et al. 2008

Journal of Psychiatric Research

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Background-A significant association between parental PTSD and the occurrence of PTSD in offspring has been noted, consistent with the idea that risk for PTSD is transmitted from parent to child. Two recent reports linking maternal PTSD and low cortisol in offspring prompted us to examine the relative contributions of maternal vs. paternal PTSD in the prediction of PTSD and other psychiatric diagnoses.

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“…Children of veterans according to these studies reported higher levels of conflict in their families but no significant differences on measures of psychological distress from control groups (Westerink and Giarratano 1999). Findings from Ruscio, Weathers, King, and King (2002) showed that emotional numbing was the only aspect of PTSD uniquely associated with veterans' perceived relationships with their children.…”

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confidence: 83%

Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Children of War Veterans in Kosovo

Kraja¹,

Ahmeti²

2015

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The aim of this study was to explore internalizing and externalizing problems in adolescent children of veterans of the war in Kosovo (1998Kosovo ( -1999. The results of this study are quite interesting from the perspective of the dilemma for the state of the children of veterans even 15 years after the war ended. Parents' emotional problems affect the functioning of the family in general and children in particular. Children can react to symptoms of parents by developing different symptoms as trouble sleeping, appetite loss, emotional instability or even problems in development, according to research done on children's reactions to the problems of parents explained by interactions between environment, brain and behaviour driven by trauma.The results of this study have shown that the internalizing problems have not shown gender differences, meantime externalizing problems were found higher in male participants. An interesting finding of this study was the highest scores of emotional problems in children born before and during the war, compare to those born after the war ended. We also found that anxiety problems in children [R 2 = .83, p < .001] were a significant predictor of internalizing problems. The assessment of the scale of positive qualities [R 2 = .19, p < .001] was also found to be a significant predictor for externalizing problems.

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The Impact of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Partners and Children of Australian Vietnam Veterans

Cited by 115 publications

References 14 publications

Long-Term Trajectories and Service Needs for Military Families

Long-Term Trajectories and Service Needs for Military Families

Maternal, not paternal, PTSD is related to increased risk for PTSD in offspring of Holocaust survivors

Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Children of War Veterans in Kosovo

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