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Individual and Family Stress and Crises

The first comprehensive text on stress and crisis management specifically tailored to courses focusing on the family. Organized by stress model, this book helps readers understand the relationships among models, research, crisis prevention, and crisis management with individuals and families. Providing a balance of theory, research, hands-on applications, and intervention strategies, this innovative text presents a comprehensive overview of the field.

Strengthening Family Resilience. 2nd Edition

This informative clinical resource and text presents Froma Walsh's family resilience framework for intervention and prevention with clients dealing with adversity. Drawing on extensive research and clinical experience, the author describes key processes in resilience for practitioners to target and facilitate. Useful guidelines and case illustrations address a wide range of challenges: sudden crisis, trauma, and loss; disruptive transitions, such as job loss, divorce, and migration; persistent multistress conditions of serious illness or poverty; and barriers to success for at-risk youth.

Family Stress Management. 2nd Edition

Why do some families survive stressful situations while others fall apart? Can a family’s beliefs and values be used as a predictor of vulnerability to stress? And most importantly, can family stress be prevented? In this Second Edition, Pauline Boss continues to explore both the larger context surrounding families and stress and the inner context, which includes perceptions and meanings. The author emphasizes the need for a more general contextual model of family stress that may be applicable to a wider diversity of people and families as well as a wider variety of stresses and crises than other models. The goal is to provide a framework for students and professionals engaged in helping families learn how to manage their stress.

Promoting Recovery and Resilience for Children and Youth Involved in Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems

According to data released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), children and youth participating in SAMHSA community-based programs who are involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems demonstrate improved outcomes after receiving trauma-informed services. This includes reduced behavioral and emotional problems, reduced trauma symptoms, reduced substance use problems, improved functioning in school and in the community, and improved ability to build relationships.

Christopher Jarman, MSW, Adrian Blow, Ph.D., Michigan State University; Marci
from Family Focus on Military Families

Buddy-to-Buddy: An innovative substitute for family support among at-risk, returning veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan

by Christopher Jarman, MSW, Adrian Blow, Ph.D., Michigan State University; Marcia Valenstein, M.D., M.S., The University of Michigan

For many returning veterans, peace eludes them. For members of the Army National Guard these experiences appear to occur at still higher rates and with greater severity than the rest of the military. In response to growing awareness of the struggles facing National Guard veterans, we developed what is known as Buddy-to-Buddy.

Angela J. Huebner, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Human Development
from Family Focus on Military Families

Advice to the therapists working with military families

by Angela J. Huebner, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Human Development, Virginia Tech

To date, about 1.8 million troops have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. This translates into 2.7 million family members who have experienced separation for extended periods of time. Service members ranked deployment length and family separation among their top noncombat-related stressors.

for Members and CFLEs ONLY

Military Family Bibliography

This resource list contains 24 categories with references specific to military culture, the military community, deployment & reintegration, military families, children, interventions, relationships, and trauma, The list was complied in support of educators, counselors, social workers, the military and civilian communities who support our armed forces.

The Alliance of Military & Veteran Family Behavioral Health Providers

The Alliance seeks to optimize the preparedness of behavioral health providers working to enhance the resilience, recovery and reintegration of Service members, Veterans, and their Family members and communities throughout the military, post-military, and family life cycles.

from New brief from Child Trends

What Works to Prevent or Reduce Internalizing Problems or Socio-Emotional Difficulties in Adolescents

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Marriage and Marital Quality - Audio Recording

Panelists discuss Do Men and Women Show Love Differently in Marriage? ; Marital Quality Across the American Life Course ; Influence of Intra- and Inter-personal Factors on Marriage: A Dyadic Model ; Marital Confidence, Positive Couple Behaviors, and Marital Satisfaction