Overview
- Based on presentations from the International Research Symposium on Military and Veteran Families at Purdue University
- Presents data gathered in the U.S., Australia, Canada, and Israel
- Investigates the impact of military deployment on family relationships
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Risk and Resilience in Military and Veteran Families (RRMV)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Fathers in the Military
- Homeless Veterans
- LGBT Veterans
- Military Couples
- Military Deployment and Divorce
- Military Families
- Military Health
- Military and Veteran Families
- PTSD
- Postdeployment Marriage and Divorce
- Postdeployment Mental Health
- Postdeployment Readjustment
- Reintegration of Ill and Injured Service Members
- Reintigration of Service Members
- Veteran Employment
- Women Veterans
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Shelley M. MacDermid Wadsworth is director of the Military Family Research Institute and the Center for Families and professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Purdue University. Her research focuses on relationships between job conditions and family life, with a special focus on military families and organizational policies, programs and practices. Her research has been widely published, and has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Henry A. Murray Center, the Department of Defense, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the state of Indiana, Lilly Endowment, and others. She serves on the editorial boards of several major family research journals, and is a fellow of the National Council on Family Relations and a recipient of the Work Life Legacy Award from the Families and Work Institute. She served on the Returning Veterans Committee of the Institute of Medicine and the Psychological Health External Advisory Committee of the Defense Health Board.
David Riggs is a clinical psychologist who currently serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Deployment Psychology and research associate professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Much of his work has focused on trauma, violence and anxiety, particularly the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety disorders on the families of those directly affected. He has trained numerous student and mental health professionals, publi
shed more than 80 articles and book chapters, and presented numerous papers and workshops. Previous positions include clinical research positions at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety and the National Center for PTSD, as well as academic appointments at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Tufts University, Boston University and the University of Pennsylvania.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: War and Family Life
Editors: Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, David S. Riggs
Series Title: Risk and Resilience in Military and Veteran Families
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21488-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21487-0Published: 23 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79344-3Published: 28 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21488-7Published: 16 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2570-348X
Series E-ISSN: 2570-3498
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 331
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Family, Psychology Research, Psychotherapy