Main description:

This book examines military families' well-being and health outcomes by providing a critical theoretical perspective on their position and the risks and challenges affecting them. Authors explore the tension between demands made by two greedy institutions-the military and the family-and how the well-being of families is negotiated between the two. Uniquely, the book employs an integrative approach to observing and analyzing military-specific risk and protective factors for health outcomes of military families on various social-ecological levels, including relationship satisfaction and dissatisfaction, intimate partnership violence, parent-child relationships, child well-being, psychoactive substance abuse, depression, and PTSD. Throughout the chapters, the authors analyze research findings that reveal new health outcomes and present an empirically-tested model of military-specific risk and protective factors.

Contents:

1. Introduction2. Social Changes in Family Life During the Past Few Decades3. The Broader Social Context Affecting Military Family Health Outcomes4. The Theoretical Model of Military-Specific Risk or Protective Factors for Military Family Health Outcomes5. The Health Outcomes in Military Families6. Risks for the Health of the Military Family Compared to the Civilian One: The Regression7. Discussion: Impact of Military-Specific Risk/Protective Factors for Military Family's Health Outcomes8. Conclusion: Select Measures Suggested by the Research Team