Author: Lorie T. DeCarvalho
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When service members return, it's up to their families to try to soften their re-entry into civilian life. Healing Stress in Military Families offers practical help for military families coping with the myriad repercussions of their loved ones' duties, from their deployment to their return home.
Based on the latest scientific research and best practice guidelines—as well as the authors' experience treating veterans and their families—Healing Stress in Military Families offers answers for the stress that comes not only from war, but also from other related issues, including deployment and redeployment, relocation, and reunion.
Healing Stress in Military Families provides:
Evidence-based advice for clinicians helping military families with adjustment problems by facilitating communication, reconnection, and growth
"Making It Real" exercises for clinicians to employ with families in sessions
"Talking Points" that explore how to guide the family in their healing process
Homework handouts and between-session "Taking Action" exercises for families that reinforce and build on skills and information introduced in sessions
Compassionately written with the military family at heart, Healing Stress in Military Families provides the information, tools, and skills that will empower these courageous families to more easily heal and become stronger and more resilient as they go through life.
"This practical workbook will help others understand the highly complex factors that cause dysfunction within military families. Using a clear format that avoids jargon, providers and families can work through the eight practical steps that focus on reconnecting the family and improving resiliency. This excellent book will surely become core material for anyone interested in working with military families."
—Bradford Felker, MD, Director, Mental Health Primary Care Service, VA Puget Sound Health Care System and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington School of Medicine
"Healing Stress in Military Families: Eight Steps to Wellness is a timely, practical publication that recognizes and addresses the impact of traumatic stress on countless 'hidden victims,' our military families. The focus on empowerment and goal-directedness—versus illness, disorder and dysfunction—is so needed today."
—Mark D. Lerner, PhD, President, American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress
- File Size: 1423 KB
- Print Length: 230 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (March 8, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B007RT1LNC
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- X-Ray: Not Enabled
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,046,228 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Healing Stress in Military Families: Eight Steps to Wellness
After being a military spouse for 16 years, I didn't think that I would find much helpful information in this book. I've been through several deployments, the tension of 9/11, tearful goodbyes and stressful reunions. After reading this book, I wish that I would have been given this as mandatory reading when I first became a military spouse.
Military service is truly a different way of life. The active duty spouse gets weeks of basic training to know what is expected of him/her during their career. They are told whom to contact depending on the situation. The'/re given a clear cut way to seek answers, deal with issues, and address problems. Military spouses? Well, sometimes we are just thrown into the deep end without any arm floaties and told to swim. There are some ways to find help and answers, but this workbook amazed me at how well it addressed areas that are often not addressed and, depending on where you are stationed, considered taboo.
I truly wish that I had been able to purchase this book 16 years ago. The military mindset is often "We don't need any help with our problem(s)." Even with the military, people do not talk about the darker side of the joyous reunions seen on television. No one talks about the stress the family goes through while the serviceman/woman is deployed, or about the tense weeks following their return from fighting. We are offered basic guidance in things such as finance or how to put together a resume, but when it comes to dealing with family issues, there's not much more than a pamphlet and a phone number to call for three counseling sessions. We are not offered help in dealing with the nightmares, the personality changes, or how to help them process the horrible things they saw.
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