Concurrent Sessions 7 - (NBCC CE Credit: #1 hr and Conference Attendance Credit: #1 hr)

308-01: Risk and Resilience Factors Among Youth Exposed to Parental Combat Deployment
Elizabeth C. Coppola, Keisha M. Bailey, Sharon L. Christ, Shelley M. MacDermid Wadsworth

308-02: Psychometric Evaluation of a Multi-Dimensional Resilience Measure:  Connections to Well-Being Among Army Soldiers-in-Training
Kayla Reed-Fitzke, Anthony J. Ferraro, James M. Duncan, Armeda J. Wojciak, Alexus Hamilton, Hilary D. Pippert

308-03: Impact of Military Peer Interaction on the Use of Coping Strategies to Alleviate Long-Term Health Effects of Combat-Related Traumatic Experiences
Anthony J. Ferraro, James M. Duncan, Christina Marini, Shelbie N. McLain, Kayla Reed-Fitzke, Elizabeth R. Watters 

308-04: Family Journeys Through Stress and Transition: Equifinality in Action
Shelley M. MacDermid Wadsworth, Christine E. McCall, Elizabeth C. Coppola, Keisha M. Bailey

Facilitator: Anthony J. Ferraro
Chair: James M. Duncan

Summary
This symposium centers military family well-being, with particular interest in understanding risk and resilience factors across multiple populations (military youth, service members in training, military couples experiencing deployment, older adult veterans). All studies presented herein explore individual factors (e.g., sleep problems, stress tolerance, perceptions towards drug use, psychological health) as well as social resources (e.g., school opportunities, religious services, interactions with peers and/or significant others, social roles) in relation to well-being outcomes (e.g., depression, suicidality, engagement in formal treatment seeking, family functioning during reintegration). In combination, the symposium will advance understanding of military populations and their families, across diverse contexts, with an eye toward better health and functioning, not only for the individual service members/veterans but also other members of the military family as well.This will be accomplished by presenting research on service members and veterans and also on children of military parents and spouses of military members.

Objectives
-- Stimulate discussion among researchers as to the needs of the modern military family, and ways that we can push for those needed changes.
-- Provide empirically-driven recommendations for policy-makers, military officials, and helping professionals who work with military and veteran family populations.
-- Analyze and disseminate information related to risk factors, resilience factors, and well-being outcomes of military affiliated individuals from large representative datasets to aid in better generalizing findings that can be applicable to all members of a military family.

Subject Codes: transitions, relationships, resilience
Population Codes: U.S., military service, military family
Method and Approach Codes: quantitative methodology, applied research, Family Science