Family resilience in the military
Subtitle: definitions, models, and policies
By: Sarah O. Meadows [and 7 others]
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
ISBN-13: 9780833084514
Subjects: Families of military personnel; Resilience (Personality trait)
Description: "Military life presents a variety of challenges to military families, including frequent separations and relocations as well as the risks that service members face during deployment; however, many families successfully navigate these challenges. Despite a recent emphasis on family resilience, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) does not have a standard and universally accepted definition of family resilience. A standard definition is a necessary for DoD to more effectively assess its efforts to sustain and improve family resilience. RAND authors reviewed the literature on family resilience and, in this report, recommend a definition that could be used DoD-wide. The authors also reviewed DoD policies related to family resilience, reviewed models that describe family resilience and identified key family resilience factors, and developed several recommendations for how family-resilience programs and policies could be managed across DoD."
Notes: "RR-470-OSD"

Includes bibliographical references (pages 16-18).