Who am I? The complex identities of military and public safety family members

Beyond the Battlefield

How do roles within military and public safety personnel families impact a care partner’s self-perception? How are children impacted by the shift away from military base communities? What inspired the creation of PSPNET Families? In this episode of Beyond the Battlefield, host Dr. Nicholas Held meets with Dr. Rachael Gribble and Dr. Nathalie Reid to discuss recent advances in military and public safety personnel family health research, impactful resources tailored to the unique needs of Veteran and PSP care partners, and the complexity of military and public safety family members’ identities.

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Dr. Rachael Gribble is a Lecturer in War & Psychiatry at King’s College London, UK. As a mixed methods researcher with a background in public health, the focus of her work is on military families, women’s health and public attitudes to the military, with a primary aim of understanding how occupation influences the well-being of families. Her particular focus is on the health and well-being of partners of UK military personnel and veterans.

While Dr. Nathalie Reid’s research program centers the experiences of educators in conversations around wellbeing in schools, her role as the Director of the Child Trauma Research Centre at the University of Regina has brought her to engage in research in 6 priority areas: child and youth mental health and wellbeing; prevention and intervention with children and youth; educators, education, and students’ mental health and wellbeing in schools; the pre- and-post migration traumas of refugee and immigrant children, youth, and families; climate trauma; and, supporting public safety personnel families. She engages in leading-edge, strength-based, and responsive projects that seek to innovatively engage with, support, and sustain the health and wellbeing of children and youth, as well as those entrusted with their care. She also focuses on innovative knowledge translation and mobilization to ensure that the research serves those for whom it is intended.

Check out Dr. Rachael Gribble (Spikol et al.)’s research article in JMVFH special edition 10.2, “The strength beside the uniform: Families of military members, Veterans, and public safety personnel”: https://bit.ly/3X0D5sm

Also featured in this special edition: Dr. Nathalie Reid et al.’s research article, “PSPNET Families Wellbeing Hub: A preliminary evaluation of online upstream supports for public safety personnel families”: https://bit.ly/3UWZtjQ

Music Attribution: “Sonora” from Marianas by Quincas Moreira. Music Licensed under a Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Beyond the Battlefield is produced by the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research.