This volume, released in late 2010, represents collaboration between the Military Family Research Institute and the Center for Deployment Psychology. It collects the most recent and relevant research on military families.
The topics covered in this singular volume may be seen from the Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Military Families under Stress: What We Know and What We Need to Know
Elaine Willerton, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, and David Riggs - Part I Marital Functioning
- Does Deployment Keep Military Marriages Together or Break Them Apart? Evidence from Afghanistan and Iraq
Benjamin R. Karney and John S. Crown - Couple Functioning and PTSD in Returning OIF Soldiers: Preliminary Findings from the Readiness and Resilience in National Guard Soldiers Project
Christopher R. Erbes - Distress in Spouses of Combat Veterans with PTSD: The Importance of Interpersonally Based Cognitions and Behaviors
Keith D. Renshaw, Rebecca K. Blais, and Catherine M. Caska - Empirically Guided Community Intervention for Partner Abuse, Child Maltreatment, Suicidality, and Substance Misuse
Richard E. Heyman, Amy M. Smith Slep, and John P. Nelson - Part II Parenting and Child Outcomes
- Child Maltreatment within Military Families
Deborah A. Gibbs, Sandra L. Martin, Monique Clinton-Sherrod, Jennifer L. Hardison Walters, and Ruby E. Johnson - Attachment Ties in Military Families: Mothers’ Perception of Interactions with Their Children, Stress, and Social Competence
Germán Posada, Nancy Longoria, Casey Cocker, and Ting Lu - Wartime Deployment and Military Children: Applying Prevention Science to Enhance Family Resilience
Patricia Lester, Gregory Leskin, Kirsten Woodward, William Saltzman, William Nash, Catherine Mogil, Blair Paley, and William Beardslee - Understanding the Deployment Experience for Children and Youth from Military Families
Anita Chandra, Rachel M. Burns, Terri Tanielian, and Lisa H. Jaycox - Part III Family Sequelae of Wounds and Injuries
- Trauma, PTSD, and Partner Violence in Military Families
Casey T. Taft, Sherry M. Walling, Jamie M. Howard, and Candice Monson - Couples’ Psychosocial Adaptation to Combat Wounds and Injuries
Hoda Badr, Trina M. Barker, and Kathrin Milbury - Parent and Adolescent Positive and Negative Disability-Related Events and Their Relation to Adjustment
Elizabeth Mazur - Working with Combat-Injured Families Through the Recovery Trajectory
Stephen J. Cozza and Jennifer M. Guimond - Part IV Single Service Members
- Deployment, Reenlistment Intentions, and Actual Reenlistment: Single and Married Active-Component Service Members
James Hosek and Paco Martorell - Post-Deployment Indicators of Single Soldiers’ Well-Being
Lyndon A. Riviere and Julie C. Merrill - The Single Service Member: Substance Use, Stress, and Mental Health Issues
Robert M. Bray, James L. Spira, and Marian E. Lane - Single Military Mothers in the New Millennium: Stresses, Supports, and Effects of Deployment
Michelle L. Kelley, Ashley N. Doane, and Matthew R. Pearson
For more information about Risk and Resilience in U.S. Military Families or to purchase the book, or to purchase individual chapters for download, visit the website of the publisher, Springer.