A Critique of the research article

This report is a summary of findings of the research conducted by Military Family Research Institute and the DOD Quality of Life agency about the issue of adaptation amongst adolescents in military families when a farm is deployed.The aim of research was to find new ways of dealing with the problems adolescents faced because of p arents deployment basically, it was done to investigate and probe their feelings about the issue, so that military and civilian program professionals could be more intentional and directed regarding developing back down programs for young people (Angela & Jay, 2005, p.12).Parental deployment can have several negative outcomes for adolescents. These include depression or negative behavioral adjustment, poor academic performance, and increased fretfulness and impulsiveness (cited in Angela & Jay, 2005).The report provided by the authors is detailed and descriptive in nature. It offers a helpful set of conclusions which can be used by professionals, family members, the parent at home, and society in general, to make them understand the impact of deployment of a parent from a childs perspective. To emphasize the importance of this research, the authors Angela J. Huebner and Jay A. Mancini, wrote the followingBecause there are just a few systematic studies of adolescents in military families, the present study marks what we hope will be the beginning of an important aviation of inquiry. The findings presented in this report should confirm observations made by professionals who work with military adolescents and provide a context for exploring new ways to avow adolescents who have a deployed parent.MethodsAdolescents between the age group of 12-18 classs were chosen from camps sponsored by National Military Family Association. This was done to simplify the process of locating and choosing children with a deployed parent. NMFA camps in Washington, Hawaii, Texas, and atomic number 31 were the ones which participated in this study. The methods used during the research were, first, evaluated and approved by the Institutional Review Board at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.In all, there were 107 adolescents ranging from 12-18 years of age. These participants were thusly divided into 14 focus groups comprising of 8-10 participants each. The questions asked during the 90 min sessions were focused on determining adolescents experience with the deployment. The answers which they got were audio-taped and transcribed.It is important to crawl in some key questions which were asked to the participants. Also give below is one answer picked randomly.1. What is the worst thing about having a parent deployed? The worst time is when the phone rings because you dont know who is calling. They could be calling, telling you that he got shot or something.2. Do you see changes in your at-home parent when the other is deployed? Im like always in a bad way(p) about my mom and stuff because, again, shes always das hing everywhere shes always so freaking worn out.3. What is it like when that parent returns? Well when my protoactinium left, everythings going one way when he come back, and hes starting off right where he left so theres just a big clash and that starts a pass out of problemsLike he forgets that hes been gone for like a year or six months. So he still thinks were a lot younger and while he was gone we matured a lot over the year. And hes still trying to treat us the way we were treated a year ago.Support to adolescents can come from formal or informal sources. The questions asked in this regards was to determine the real effects both such approaches could have individually.4. Who do you go to when you are stressed?For informal supportAt first when my dad first got deployed, there was a lot of support as in like people calling, people giving us, you know, nutriment and stuff. But then as time went one, it just kind of died down and nobody really cared that he was deployed.