A comprehensive new book focusing on the impact of deployment on military families has been released through MFRI’s publishing partners. Military Deployment and its Consequences for Families is available as a 450-page hardcover or e-book.
Editors Shelley M. MacDermid Wadsworth, Ph.D., and David S. Riggs, Ph.D, led a multi-disciplinary team of contributors in a systematic evaluation of the dynamics of military and family life. Topics include relational tension in couples following deployment, parenting practices and emotion regulation in National Guard and Reserve families, and tensions between family and career considerations among mothers serving in the armed forces.
The book is an outgrowth of work presented at the 2011 International Research Symposium for Military Families, which was created by the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University. MacDermid Wadsworth is director of MFRI and the Center for Families, its parent organization. Her research focuses on job conditions and family life, with a focus on military personnel, their spouses and children. Riggs, a clinical psychologist and research associate professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, has published more than 60 articles and book chapters and presented more than 200 papers and workshops nationwide.
This is the second scholarly work that has been generated by MFRI’s International Research Symposia. It is intended aimed at graduate student and faculty researchers and aims to provide practical, evidence-based insights about military members and their loved ones. The findings could also serve as a catalyst for further research.
Military Deployment and its Consequences for Families is part of the Risk and Resilience in Military and Veteran Families series published by Springer.