Families

Family-centered preventive interventions have been proposed as relevant to mitigating psychological health risk and promoting resilience in military families facing wartime deployment and reintegration.

The impact of a family centered prevention program, Families OverComing Under Stress Family Resilience Training (FOCUS), on the psychological adjustment of military children and parents was examined.

The high operational tempo of the current conflicts and the unprecedented reliance on National Guard and Reserve forces highlights the need for services to promote reintegration efforts for those transitioning back to civilian family life.

The After Deployment, Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT) program is a 14-week group-based, Web-enhanced parenting training intervention.

Background: Although military families worldwide face changes that include adapting to peace and wartime deployments, few studies have explored how military families adapt to the post-deployment return of a service member.

Researchers investigated predictors of postdeployment family adaptation including length of deployment, prior deployments, years married, number of children, participation in religious and family support groups, communication, race, and interdependence.

This paper evaluates Passport Toward Success (PTS).

Children and adolescents of National Guard members who recently returned from deployment participated in the Passport Towards Success (PTS) program, which teaches youth strategies for effective coping, problem-solving, and emotional expression.