Parenting and Children's Resilience in Military Families

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Parenting and Children’s Resilience in Military Families: A Twenty-First Century Perspective

   • Abigail H. Gewirtz, Adriana M. Youssef

   Pages 1-9

3. The Impact of Military Life on Young Children and Their Parents

   • Phillip Stepka, Kristin Callahan

   Pages 11-26

4. Parenting School-Age Children and Adolescents Through Military Deployments

   • Anita Chandra

   Pages 27-45

5. Placing Fatherhood Back in the Study and Treatment of Military Fathers

   • David S. DeGarmo

   Pages 47-63

6. Military Mothers

   • Rachel Barnes, Sharon A. M. Stevelink, Christopher Dandeker, Nicola T. Fear

   Pages 65-92

7. The Special Case of Civilian Service Members: Supporting Parents in the National Guard and Reserves

   • Amanda L. Schuh, Michelle Kees, Adrian Blow, Lisa Gorman

   Pages 93-107

8. Parents’ Childhood Exposures to Traumatic Events and Current Functioning in Military Families

   • Allison Flittner O’Grady, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Patricia Lester

   Pages 109-129

9. Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence in Military Families

   • Amy M. Smith Slep, Richard E. Heyman

   Pages 131-150

10. Parenting in Military Families Faced with Combat-Related Injury, Illness, or Death

    • Stephen J. Cozza

    Pages 151-173

11. Parenting and the Military: The Case of Israel

    • Rachel Dekel, Rivka Tuval-Mashiach, Yaara Sadeh

    Pages 175-194

12. Interventions to Support and Strengthen Parenting in Military Families: State of the Evidence

    • Jennifer DiNallo, Michelle Kuhl, Lynne M. Borden, Daniel Perkins

    Pages 195-212

13. Prevention and Treatment for Parents of Young Children in Military Families

    • Ellen R. DeVoe, Ruth Paris, Michelle Acker

    Pages 213-227

14. Evidence-Based Parenting Programs for School-Aged Children

    • Adriana M. Youssef, Alyssa S. Garr, Abigail H. Gewirtz

    Pages 229-250

15. Parenting Programs and Supports for Teens in Military Families

    • Michelle D. Sherman, Patti L. Johnson

    Pages 251-264

16. Military Parenting in the Digital Age: Existing Practices, New Possibilities

    • Kelly A. Blasko, Pamela R. Murphy

    Pages 265-282

17. How do Military Family Policies Influence Parenting Resources Available to Families?

    • Yuko K. Whitestone, Barbara A. Thompson

    Pages 283-297

18. Conclusions and a Research Agenda for Parenting in Military Families

    • Abigail H. Gewirtz, Adriana M. Youssef

    Pages 299-306

19. Back Matter

    Pages 307-316

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This reference examines the wide-ranging impact of military life on families, parenting, and child development. It examines the complex family needs of this diverse population, especially as familiar issues such as trauma, domestic violence, and child abuse manifest differently than in civilian life. Expert contributors review findings on deployed mothers, active-duty fathers, and other military parents while offering evidence for interventions and prevention programs to enhance children’s healthy adjustment in this highly structured yet uncertain context. Its emphasis on resource and policy improvements keeps the book focused on the evolution of military families in the face of future change and challenges.

Included in the coverage:

• Impacts of military life on young children and their parents.
Parenting school-age children and adolescents through military deployments.
• Parenting in military families faced with combat-related injury, illness, or death.
• The special case of civilian service members: supporting parents in the National Guard and Reserves.
• Interventions to support and strengthen parenting in military families: state of the evidence.
• Military parenting in the digital age: existing practices, new possibilities.

Addressing a major need in family and parenting studies, Parenting and Children’s Resilience in Military Families is necessary reading for scholars and practitioners interested in parenting and military family research. 

• Attachment in Military Families
• Child Maltreatment
• Family Violence in Military Families
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Military Fathers
• Parenting in Military Families

• University of Minnesota, Dept of Fam. Soc.Sci. Ins. of Child Dev, Minneapolis, USA

  Abigail H. Gewirtz

• University of Minnesota, Inst.Transl.Res. in Child. Ment. Health, Minneapolis, USA

  Adriana M. Youssef

Abigail Gewirtz's primary interests are in trauma, resilience, and promoting children’s healthy development with two distinct but interrelated research foci: the impact of exposure to traumatic stressors on parenting and child functioning, and the development, testing, and widespread implementation of family-based interventions. She is Principal Investigator on a National Institute of Drug Abuse-funded randomized controlled trial to develop and test a web-enhanced parenting program for National Guard families with parents returning from deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr. Gewirtz also directs Ambit Network, a SAMHSA/National Child Traumatic Stress Network Community Services and Treatment center focusing on the implementation of evidence-based interventions for traumatized school-aged children and their parents. Other studies currently underway include a study of families exposed to rocket attacks on the Israel-Gaza border, and a randomized preference trial to examine motivational cognitions and parent preferences for delivery format of parenting interventions. Dr. Gewirtz has written and has presented widely at both the local and national level on prevention and intervention for highly stressed children.

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