Impact and Community Need Research Index
Last Updated September 2015
Military and Veteran Statistics
Casualty Status Report, U.S. Department of Defense, September 16, 2015.
Hannah Fischer, “A Guide to U.S. Military Casualty Statistics: Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, Operation
Inherent Resolve, Operation New Dawn, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom,”
Congressional Research Service Report, August 7, 2015.
“American Veterans By the Numbers,” U.S. Census Bureau, October 3, 2014.
Luis Martinez and Amy Bingham, “U.S. Veterans: By the Numbers,” ABCNews.go.com, November 11,
2011.
Amy Roberts ad Lindsey Knight, “By the Numbers: Memorial Day and Veterans,” CNN, May 23, 2013.
“2012 Demographics: Profile of the Military Community,” published by the Office of the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Military Community and Family Policy), under contract with ICF
International. http://militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2012_Demographics_Report.pdf
Veteran Issues
Chris Adams, “Millions went to war in Iraq, Afghanistan, leaving many with lifelong scars,” McClatchy
Newspapers, March 14, 2013.
“Post 9/11 Veterans Come Home to a Nation That Cannot Address Their Needs,” Center for Public
Integrity, August 25, 2013.
David Wood, “U.S. Wounded in Iraq, Afghanistan Includes More Than 1,500 Amputees,” The Huffington
Post, November 8, 2012.
Todd Leopold, “The Thing About Remembering is That You Don’t Forget,” CNN, May 27, 2012.
John Newby, DSW, “Positive and Negative Consequences of a Military Deployment,” Military Medicine,
Volume 170, October 2005.
Moni Basu, “Why Suicide Rate Among Veterans May Be More Than 22 a Day,” CNN, Novembers 14,
2013.
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“Lengthy Military Deployments Increase Divorce Risk for U.S. Enlisted Service Members,” RAND
Corporation Press Room, September 3, 2013.
Amy Bushatz, “Female Military Divorce Rates Continue to Decline,” Military.com, December18, 2013.
John Boyle, “Veterans Fund Military Service No Leg Up in Job Market,” Citizen-Times.com, May 28, 2014.
Sudy Bharadwaj, “The Problem with Current Veteran Employment Programs – and an Obvious Solution,”
HuffingtonPost.com, October 30, 2013, updated January 23, 2014.
“Veterans’ Employment Challenges Report: Perceptions and Experiences of Transitioning from Military
to Civilian Life,” The Prudential Financial Survey Report with the IAVA, 2012.
Martha Franklin, et al, “2013 Wounded Warrior Project® Survey,” July23, 2013.
Reintegration
“Returning from the War Zone: A Guide for Families of Military Members,” Department of Veteran
Affairs: National Center for PTSD, March 2014.
Lydia I. Marek, Ph.D., et al. “Returning home: What we know about the reintegration of deployed
service members into their families and communities,” National Council of Family Relations Report
magazine, Spring 2012. http://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/focus/military-families/returning-home
Nina Sayer Ph.D., Siamak Noorbaloochi Ph.D., et al. “Reintegration Problems and Treatment Interests
Among Iraq and Afghanistan Combat Veterans Receiving VA Medical Care” PsychiatryOnline.org,
Volume 61 No. 6, June 2010.
“Evidence-Based Diagnostics and Therapies and Long-Term Forecasts of Needs Among Steps Necessary
to Ease Iraq and Afghanistan Service Members' Readjustment to Post-Deployment Life,” Institute of
Medicine’s Committee on the Initial Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Military Personnel, Veterans,
and Their Families, NationalAcademies.org, March 26,2013.
LTC Michael Doyle, M.D., and LTC Kris Peterson, M.D., “Re-Entry and Reintegration: Returning Home
After Combat,” Psychiatric Quarterly, Volume 4 Number 4, Winter 2005.
Anita Chandra, Dr.P.H., et al. “Children on the Homefront: The Experience of Children From Military
Families,” Pediatrics Journal 2010.
Kris Tunac De Pedro, et al., “The Children of Military Service Members: Challenges, Supports and Future
Educational Research,” American Educational Research Association, November 9, 2011, p. 596-605.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Lori Zoellner Ph.D. and Norah Feeny Ph.D., Facilitating Resilience and Recovery Following Trauma, The
Guilford Press, New York, 2014.
Jamie Reno, “Nearly 30% of Vets Treated by VA Have PTSD,” The Daily Beast, October 21, 2012.
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“One in Five Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Suffer from PTSD or Major Depression,” RAND Corporation,
RAND.org, April 17, 2008.
Eve Carlson, Ph.D. and Joseph Ruzek Ph.D., “PTSD and the Family,” Department of Veterans Affairs,
National Center for PTSD, January 3, 2014.
“Veterans Statistics: PTSD, Depression, TBI, Suicide,” VeteransandPTSD.com, February 14, 2015.
“Understanding and Coping with PTSD,” A Supplemental Take-Home Module the NAMI Family-to-Family
Education Program, Prepared by Veterans Healthcare Administration, National Central for PTSD,
Updated January 2011.
“PTSD Treatment Options,” Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain
Injury, September 2015.
“Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Treatment of PTSD,” University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of
Medicine, Department of Psychiatry Online Guide, September 2015.
Shankar Vedantam, “Most PTSD treatments Proven Not Effective,” The Washington Post, October 19,
2007.
John Grohol, PsyD., “SSRIs for PTSD: Just How Effective Are They?” The Carlat Psychiatry Report,
PsychCentral.com, May 29, 2014.
Adam Husney, M.D. and Jessica Hamblen, Ph.D., “Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) for
PTSD,” WebMD.com, November 14, 2014.
Mathew Hoskins, et al., “Pharmacotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Systemic Review and
Meta-Analysis,” The British Journal of Psychiatry, February 2015.
Virginia Hughes, “Stress: The Roots of Resilience,” Nature International Weekly Journal of Science,
October 2012.
Recreation and Sports
Lisa O’Neill Hill, “The Healthy Flip Side of Being a Sports Fan,” CNN.com. April 13, 2012.
Anna Almendrala, “How Being a Sports Fan Makes Your Happier and Healthier,” The Huffington
Post, January 30, 2015.
“Football and Mental Health,” United Kingdom Mental Health Foundation,
http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/help-information/mental-health-a-z/F/football/
Sid Kirchheimer, “Are Sports Fans Happier?” Saturday Evening Post, March/April 2012.
Cristina Goyanes, “5 Surprising Benefits of Being a Sports Fan,” Yahoo Health, February 2, 2012.
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“Athletes’ and Spectators’ Brains Light Up When Talking Sports,” University of Chicago News,
Septembers 2, 2008.
Daniel Wann, et al. “Sports Fans: The Psychology and Social Impact of Spectators,” Rutledge
Publishing Company, 2001.
Melanie Hicken, “The High Cost of Being a Football Fan,” CNN Money, September 7, 2013.
Maury Brown, “Have Concerts and Sporting Events Become Too Expensive For the Average
Fan?” Forbes.com, July 23, 2014.
Performing Arts
“Measuring Cultural Engagement: A Quest for New Terms, Tools and Techniques,” National
Endowment for the Arts and Arts and Humanities Research Council, June 2014, p. 6-13, 26-36.
Heather Stuckey, D.Ed. and Jeremy Nobel, M.D./M.P.H., “The Connection Between Art, Healing
and Public Health: A Review of Current Literature, American Public Health Association, May 27,
2009.
Fran Smith, “Why Arts Education Is Crucial and Who’s Doing It Best,” Edutopia.org, January 28,
2009.
Elizabeth Curtis, “The Importance of the Arts: Enriching Minds, Hearts and Souls,” Washington
Parent, February 2013.
Yasmin Anwar, “Add Nature, Art and Religion to Life’s Best Anti-Inflammatories,” University of
California Berkeley News, February 2, 2015.
Social Relationships, Leisure and Mental Health
Joel Young M.D., “Nine Lifestyle Factors That Can Affect Your Mental Health: A 360 Degree
Approach to Mental Health,” PsychologyToday.com, October 2014.
Debra Umberson and Jenifer Karas Montez, “Social Relationships and Health: A Flashpoint for
Health Policy,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Volume 51, November 2010.
Shelden Cohen, “Social Relationships and Health,” American Psychologist, November 2004.
Laura Blue, “Recipe for Longevity: No Smoking, Lots of Friends,” Time.com, July 28, 2010.
Sylvia Asay and John DeFrain, “The International Family Strengths Model,” World Congress of
Families VI Seminar, May 2012.
Rachel Morgan, “Importance of Leisure and Recreation for Health,” LiveStrong.com, October
21, 2013.
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Amy Sutton, “Enjoyable Leisure Activities Tied to Psychological and Physical Well-Being,” NewMedical.net, July 28, 2009.
Lauren Kuykendall, Louis Tay and Vincent Ng, “Leisure Engagement and Subjective Well-Being:
A Meta-Analysis,” Psychological Bulletin, Volume 141, March 2015.
Mary Alvord, Ph.D. and Bert Uchino Ph.D., “Stress Management: How to Strengthen Your Social
Support Network,” American Psychological Association, February 2015.
Melinda Smith, M.A., Robert Segal, M.A. and Jeanne Segal Ph.D., “Improving Emotional Health,”
HelpGuide.org, August 2015.
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