Desire’ Godfrey
Ms. Kendall
Eng 132.010
April 28, 2011

Annotated Bibliography
McCubbin, I. Hamilton, Barbara B. Dahl, Philip J. Metres, JR., Edna J. Hunter, and John A. Plag. “Family Separation and Reunion: Families of Prisoners of War and Servicemen Missing in Action”. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975. Print.
This book delves into the lives of children that have an absence of their fathers caused by the assignment of the military. These authors pinpoint some of the difficult obstructions these children have to face while these men are MIA (missing in action). They talk about the adjustment and the adapting to the prolonged and seemingly indefinite absence of a father, and how a relationship between a father and child changes over the long period of time until the veteran returns. Moreover, they collected data from 42 families of returned prisoners of the Vietnam War and attempted to identify a combination of factors that could explain the variability in the quality of the father-child relationship subsequent to the returning from the War. This information from this book will help convey emotional lives that these children have to endure. This book will strengthen my research by pointing out how children are affected when there is a nonattendance of one of the parents for a long period of time.
Bowen, L. Gary, Dennis K. Orthner. The Organization Family: WORK AND FAMILY LINKAGES IN THE U.S... New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1989. Print.
This book depicts how marital relationships get torn apart because of soldiers that come back from the war with post traumatic stress and have the need to have an aggressive and physical attitude towards their wife. The aggression these women have to face forces them to determine if they will stick by these veterans or get a divorce because these men don’t know how to control this disorder. Bowen and Orthner did a retrospective report of combat exposure on marital relationships to show how the more these men experience PTSD; the more aggressive they get in their marriage. Moreover, Bowen and Orthner emphasize how the patterns and jobs of mothers change once the father is absent in the family. Women are then expected to be able to be both a mother and a father toward their children. By doing this mothers have to learn how to help with the impending developmental needs that will come with the feelings of the adolescent. The attitudes of spouses eventually start to change once they get an understanding that they are then residing in a single parent household. This book was significant to my research because Bowen and Orthner provide information about how the lives of these departing soldiers are affected when it’s time for them to come back home. The lives of the people around them are affected also because they have to learn how to cope with the PTSD. Also these two men identified how children especially are affected the most when they don’t know whether their father is going to come home or not; this showed the major emotional appeal they had on the subject.
Matasakis, Aphrodite. Vietnam Wives: Women and Children Surviving Life with Vetrans Suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Washington, D.C.: Wordscape Inc., 1988. Print.
This book portrays how PTSD affects these men emotionally and socially. It is a story of a man named Bruce who returned home from the war. After his return he was never the same afterwards; he was experiencing PTSD. He was married to a woman named Harriet that was determining if she would put him in a retirement home or not. His symptoms were so bad that it made it hard for his marriage to continue. This disorder affected Bruce from his love life all the way down to these life threatening habits he starts to develop; sometimes he goes up to ten days without saying a word, even months. He never wants to have sexual relations with his wife Harriet at all, and when they do engage in sex he’ll just stop in the middle because he starts to have these horrible thoughts or terrors. Harriet went everyday trying to decide what to she should do about a person that may never go back to being the same. Matasakis addresses these reasons for how these men development this disorder and goes deep into what it does to the men. He articulates that these men start to develop these diminished or twisted memories of the war because at that moment they feel as if they are still there. Aphrodite Matasakis explains this information in a novel form, and that is why this source was very useful to my research. The study he did in this book broke down the knowledge he had about what these men were truly going through.
Strauss, Darin. "A Long-Distance Connection." Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition 21 Feb. 2009: W3. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 27 Apr. 2011. This newspaper article shares the story of Neil Rice and Andrea Truncali whose romance began as a long-distance relationship. As soon as they met Neil had to leave and go away to serve in Iraq. The passionate relationship of the two started the day previous to Neil leaving. Neil was a naval lieutenant on leave while Andreas was an up and coming doctor. They were familiarity-friends from college but went their separate ways after Neil left. Their love life began after Neil decided to write Andrea a letter to express the fanatical feelings he had for her. This source was a perfect foundation for me to get knowledgeable propaganda. It shows that not all long distance relationships turn out to be bad; sometimes it makes the relationship stronger. These two fell in love by writing letters back and forth to each conveying how they felt about each other, and that kept them together. Betancourt, Theresa, Kashif Tanveer Khan. "The mental health of children affected by armed conflict: Protective processes and pathways to resilience." International Review of Psychiatry 20.3 (2008): n. pag. Web. 27 Apr 2011. This article examines the concept of flexibility in the context of children affected by armed conflict. Flexibility has been frequently viewed as a unique quality of certain 'invulnerable' children. In distinction, this paper argues that a number of defensive processes supply to resilient mental health outcomes in children when considered through the lens of the child's social ecosystem. While available research has made important helpful to understanding risk factors for unhelpful mental health consequences of war-related violence and loss, the focus on trauma alone has resulted in insufficient attention to factors associated with elastic mental health outcomes. This paper presents key studies in the literature that address the relationship between risk and protective processes in the mental health of war-affected children from an natural, developmental perspective. It suggests that further research on war-affected children should pay particular attention to coping and meaning making at the individual level; the role of attachment relationships, caregiver health, resources and connection in the family, and social support available in peer and extended social networks. Cultural and community influences such as attitudes towards mental health and healing as well as the meaning given to the experience of war itself are also important aspects of the larger social ecology. This source is somewhat helpful to my research because it gives off a psychological perspective of how environmental factors influence a child’s life, and the health problems that go along with it. This would facilitate my research it goes further into the topic of how war trauma will impact a child’s life mentally. It doesn’t help because it goes more into a psychology standpoint instead of on my topic itself. Kenny, John. “The child in the military community”. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry. 6. Sage Publications Inc.: Inter-University Seminar, 1976. Print. John Kenny wanted to study variables affecting children in a military community, but compared them to civilian communities. In his revision he found that even though a lot of military families had the most broken homes they displayed the least incidences of juvenile delinquency and many other negative disturbances when the father came back in the picture. However, military fathers are proposed as reasons for a stricter discipline among military children. Whereas, homes that have are occupied with both parents have the most incidences of juvenile delinquency. This will broaden my research by successfully describing how discipline is a key factor in homes with fathers that were once in the war. These men build a relationship with their spouses by leading them down the right path and having strict regulation is just something learned in the military and is then brought home. Rix, Fred. "Dogs Tags for Virtual Sniffing." Illustration. Technology Review 110.4 (July 2007): 16. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Ralph W. Steen Library, Nacogdoches, TX. This is picture of a chart that illustrates the association between PTSD symptoms and traumatic experiences of armed conflict-related events. The chart is basically covering health and quality of life outcomes; how many of these men back from the military actually experience these arousal symptoms and how many of these men have avoided the symptoms. This will be of assistance to my research because it is a clear visual that shows how serious PTSD is for these soldiers; it shows the different types of arousal indications they have and how often they occur. Ravensburger, AG. "Trade Magazine Publishing After World War II." 2011: Print. Ravensburger elaborated on the impact of midlife career change on retired soldiers and how he examined this. He pointed out the men who are able to transfer their military skills to the civilian labor market and the tremendous number of advantages and prestige these men had. However, some men from the military have to embark upon a totally different career. This resource was constructive because this magazine takes an approach on a relationship these men will have not with another person but with the environment and their social life; if they decide to work when they are done serving our country. Ville, Kivimaki, Tempora Tuomas. " War Of Hearts: Love and Collective Attachment As Integrating Factors In Finland During World War II.. " Journal of Social History 43.2 (2009): n. pag. Web. 28 Apr 2011.
In this article it is conferred how incidents in Finland during World War II illustrated ways in which love and attachment could pressure behavior during war. The two authors thrash out how concepts of love and attachment during wars, such as companionship between fellow soldiers, relationships between men and women and patriotism, can motivate soldiers to fight. This is relevant to my research because it shows how these soldiers caring for someone affects them by making them want to go and fight in the war. The research in this article focuses on research on social cohesion between soldiers in primary groups has been used as a way of investigating combat motivation. The respect of women also helped strengthen the motivation of soldiers to fight and sacrifice themselves in battle.
Feltman, Brian. "Psychiatry and the Army Brat." War in history 17.4 (1970): n. pag. Web. 28 Apr 2011.
The piece of writing talked about an evaluation of clinical case studies of military children who were seen for concise psychiatric therapy. Feltman’s intent was to outline the individual common stresses of children in the military setting, and by doing so, to explain the relationship between stress and reaction. There are many stress related situations that children go through. This is why this article was constructive in my research because the article broke down and discussed the collision of a specify stress situation on the military child like father absence, frequent family moves, or marriages being torn apart. These all show how children have a main relationship with stress.
McCubbin, I. Hamilton, Barbara B. Dahl, and Edna J. Hunter. “FAMILIES IN THE MILITARY SYSTEM”. 9. Beverly Hills, London: Sage Publications Inc.1976, Print.
This discusses how changes come about while one’s husband is away at war. Some mothers are forced to get jobs and endure changes that they’ve never had to experience before. It is about learning to handle being alone from then on out, and if there are youth involved; it means dealing with their mood swings as well. The mother has to learn to develop a relationship with her child where regardless of what happens she stays strong for them while their father is away at war. The book enlightens my study because it gives a clear indicator of a mother putting her child first always and never letting her emotions show on her face.
Romesser, Jennifer, Shuying Shen, Maija Reblin, John Kircher, Steven Allen, Toni Roberts, and William R. Marchand. “A Preliminary Study of the Effect of a Diagnosis of Concussion on PTSD Symptoms and Other Psychiatric Variables at the Time of Treatment Seeking Among Veterans.." Military Medicine 176.3 (2011): n. pag. Web. 28 Apr 2011.
The aim in this article was assessing posttraumatic stress disorder and what variables at the time were veterans requiring treatment for. This journal compared male veterans with a history of military-related concussion and military-related PTSD to male veterans with military-related PTSD but without a diagnosis of military-related concussion. The authors focused more on the diagnosis of the soldiers and now how it affected someone or something close to them. There were no important between-group differences in PTSD. However, the data provided in this article was not accommodating since my topic is over war and relationships. It just gave me information on how PTSD affects the soldier, and not how PTSD has a major affect on someone else’s life or that person’s affiliation.
Abbott, Spc. Crystal. U.S. Government. Fort Bragg's retreat helps single Soldiers build healthy relationships. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs , Web. 28 Apr 2011.
On this website Abbot argues how relationship problems can cause emotional, physical and mental stress, which in turn can distract Soldiers from their mission and ultimately degrade their overall inclination. Those soldiers that have a good positive attitude and people around them that support them will be more ready to fight. Also, soldiers will have an easier time remaining calm and balanced in stressful situations when they learn how to use both their heart and their head when making decisions. This website shows that not only do the soldiers need support while they’re away from home, but they need as much comfort as they can. She finds that learning how to build a healthy relationship through mental and emotional techniques; as well as emphasize the importance of resiliency teaches them to deal with coping. This resource influenced my research by showing that the war teaches these soldiers to develop a strong relationship with the men they will be fighting with because they can receive training and advice for establishing positive relationships and stress management.
Cameron, Jessica J, Michael Ross. " In Times of Uncertainty: Predicting the Survival of Long-Distance Relationships.." Journal of Social Psychology 147.6 (2007): n. pag. Web. 28 Apr 2011. The authors examined the degree to which ratings of negative affectivity and relational security predicted the breakup of long-distance relationships in this article. Ross and Cameron did research by having couples complete initial surveys and were contacted one year later about the status of their relationship. In the initial surveys, both partners completed a relational security assessment. Overall, both the relational security of men and women predicted stability. However, as predicted, structural equation modeling revealed a gender difference in the interaction between long-distance statuses. The presence of high negative affectivity in men was associated with breakup for long-distance but not same-city couples. High negative affectivity in women was not differentially associated with relational stability on the basis of long-distance status. This will not be utilized in my research because this article goes more toward just talking about a relationship, but not from a war point of view.
Rix, Fred. "Dogs Tags for Virtual Sniffing." Illustration. Technology Review 110.4 (July 2007): 16. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. R.W. Steen Library, Nacogdoches, TX. 14 December 2007. This is just a cartoon related image that shows the therapies the soldiers will undergo as a result to PTSD. The man lying down would be an example of a war veteran and the lady would be the psychiatrist. This photo will be of assistance to my research because is being used symbolically to distinguish what going to see a psychiatrist is used for and how the therapy works.