Pathways of Risk and Resilience: Impact of a Family Resilience Program on Active-Duty Military Parents

Military families experience unique stressors and may benefit from increases in resilience. Researchers investigated a brief, strengths-based intervention focused on enhancing military family resilience through increased communication, parenting skills, collaboration, flexibility, and routines. They evaluated whether decreases in parent distress after the intervention were due to increases in family resilience. The results indicated that changes in family resilience did explain reductions in parent distress.