Study to look at family effects of deployments
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A childhood behavioral specialist from Massapequa is asking military families to participate in a pilot study of how Iraq and Afghanistan deployments impact family dynamics.
The study -- "Risk and Resilience in Military Families" -- will measure how deployments affect families by examining child behaviors, parenting stress, family relationships and sleep patterns.
It comes on the heels...
