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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Military Veteran"”.
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An Organizational Guide to Leveraging Military Veteran Human Capital
Military veterans possess a unique set of nontechnical skills from military training and operation that transfer into the civilian workforce. If leveraged appropriately, these nontechnical skills create an economic advantage for organizations and an engaged veteran workforce. The last two decades …
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Integrated Academic and Social Support for Military Veteran Students: Imagining a New Horizon in Education
<p>Integrated Academic and Social Support for Military Veteran Students: Imagining a New Horizon in Education</p> <p>Combat and war veterans are enrolling at institutions of higher education hoping to complete their academic degrees. Veteran students' changing identities from soldiers to students …
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Military Veteran Status and PTSD Symptomatology among Urban Firefighters: The Moderating Role of Emotion Regulation Difficulties
Firefighters and veterans experience high rates of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology. The current study examined the moderating role of emotion regulation difficulties in the association between military veteran status and PTSD symptom severity in firefighters. …
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A quantitative investigation of complex post-traumatic stress disorder among military veterans in Northern Ireland
… stress is of great importance within the military veteran population given the unique risk to this group of exposure to stressful events. Understanding is historically drawn from the examination of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among this group, however recent developments have …
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Ex-military Personnel in the Criminal Justice System: An exploration of the violence committed across the military life course and the role of alcohol within this violence.
This research has qualitatively engaged with military veterans within the criminal justice system of England and Wales who have been convicted of alcohol related violent offences. Deviating from a quantitative approach most commonly employed within the extant veteran-offender literature and …
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Alcohol Consumption and Other Related Factors in Military Veterans Attending College
Military veterans attending college may encounter difficulties resulting from the clash of military and collegiate cultures. A lack of social support during the military-to- college transition may promote the development of unhealthy coping mechanisms to deal with the anxiety of college adjustment. …
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BETTER VETREPRENEURSHIP: IMPROVING ENTREPRENEURIAL OUTCOMES FOR U.S. MILITARY VETERANS
Military veteran entrepreneurs, also known as vetrepreneurs, form a unique entrepreneurial community based in part on their military-related skills and life experiences, the financial endowments derived from their service, and external influences like professional mentors and government-provided …
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Psychosocial Needs of Caregivers of Military Veterans Who Identify As Transgender: a Qualitative Study
… Problem: There are over an estimated 18 million veterans in the United States who have served in the Armed Forces (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020). The National Center for Transgender Equality (2022) suggests that there are an estimated 134,000 veterans who identify as transgender, with approximately …
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Veterans’ experiences of reintegration and successfully managing post-traumatic stress
It is established within this thesis that some veterans experience problems reintegrating into civilian life after discharge from the military. Difficult and traumatic events during service can cause an emotional aftermath that includes post-traumatic stress and avoidant coping. Much of the …
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Turning Back the Tide: Patriarchy and Post-War Femininity in Agatha Christie’s Taken at the Flood.
… of a woman at the hands of her male partner, a military veteran, with what would now be termed coercive control. Furthermore, it highlights societal acceptance of domestic abuse, something reflected in reviews of Taken at the Flood at the time. This thesis, therefore, views the novel as a …
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Hamner enrollment prediction model: Transition to college for individuals with access needs
… databases inclusive of both civilian and military veteran populations with access needs. Another direction is design of college applications that (legally) collect data potentially indicative of individuals having access needs, for example, applicant inquiries about [also assistive] …
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Student veterans' career services in higher education
This qualitative study investigated student veterans’ awareness of, access to, and use of U.S. military veteran-centered career development resources, services, and programs that are necessary to enhance their transitional career development and preparedness while in higher education at a large …
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The Formation of Cultural Capital using Symbolic Military Meanings of Objects and Self in an Adult Agricultural Education Program serving Military Veterans
… program generates new learning spaces for military veterans. Utilizing Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Capital Theories this study illustrates how military veterans use and making new meanings of military symbols in an agricultural educational context. After leaving their military …
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Sensemaking, meaning-making and practice perspectives in strategic planning for a veteran service nonprofit organization
… is to explore the successes and challenges of a veteran service nonprofit organization through an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) process to inform the organization's future priorities and direction. From a scholarly perspective, this research extends organizational literature in that it brings to …
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Leadership Characteristics of Military Veterans as School Administrators
… to recruit and support former members of the military as teachers in high-poverty schools. Most of the research on TTT participants has been positive, and leadership is often mentioned as an important factor in participants' successes. A number of these military veterans have moved from the …