Risk and resilience in U.S. military families

War related separations challenge military families in many ways. The worry and uncertainty associated with absent family members exacerbates the challenges of personal, social, and economic resources on the home front. U.S. militaryoperations in Iraq and Afghanistan have sent a million service personnel fromthe U.S. alone into conflict areas leaving millions of spouses, children and others in stressful circumstances. This is not a new situation for military families, but it has taken a toll of magnified proportions in recent times. In addition, medical advances have prolonged the life of those who might have diedof injuries. As a result, more families are caring for those who have experienced amputation, traumatic brain injury, and profound psychological wounds. The Department of Defense has launched unprecedented efforts to support service members and families before, during, and after deployment in all locations of the country as well as in remote locations. Stress in U.S. Military Families brings together an interdisciplinary group of experts from the military to the medical to examine the issues of this critical problem. Its goal is to review the factors that contribute to stress in military families and to point towardstrategies and policies that can help. Covering the major topics of parenting, marital functioning, and the stress of medical care, and including a specialchapter on single service members, it serves as a comprehensive guide for those who will intervene in these problems and for those undertaking their research. Presents new data and new analyses of the research on military families Offers interdisciplinary perspective from military to mental health Contributorsare leading researchers in the field Offers a mix of research and intervention INDICE: U.S. Military Families Under Stress: What We Know and What We Needto Know.- I. Marital Functioning.- Introduction.- Does Deployment Keep Marriages Together or Break Them Apart? Evidence from Afghanistan and Iraq.- Couple Functioning and PTSD in Returning OIF Soldiers: Preliminary Findings from the Readiness and Resilience in National Guard Soldiers Project.- Distress in Spouses of Combat Veterans with PTSD: The Importance of Interpersonally Based Cognitions and Behaviors.- Empirically Guided Community Intervention for Partner Abuse, Child Maltreatment, Suicidality, and Substance Misuse.- II. Parenting and Child Outcomes.- Introduction.- Child Maltreatment within Military Families.- Attachment Ties in Military Families: Mothers’ Perceptions of Interactions with their Children, Stress, and Social Competence.- Wartime Deployment and Military Children: Applying Prevention Science to Enhance Family Resilience.- Understanding the Deployment Experience for Children from Military Families.- III. Family Sequelae of Wounds and Injuries.- Introduction.- Trauma, PTSD, and Partner Violence in Military Families.- Couples’ Psychosocial Adaptation to Combat Wounds and Injuries.- Parent and Adolescent Positive and Negative Disability-Related Events and their Relation to Adjustment.- Working with Combat Injured Families Through the Recovery Trajectory.- IV. Single Service Members.- Introduction.- Deployment, Reenlistment Intentions, and Actual Reenlistment: Single and Married Active-Component Service Members.- Post-Deployment Indicators ofSingle Soldiers’ Wellbeing.- The Single Service Member: Substance Use, Stress, and Mental Health Issues.- Single Military Mothers in the New Millennium: Stresses, Supports, and Effects of Deployment.- Conclusion.

• ISBN: 978-1-4419-7063-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 29/11/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés