Coping with Stress in Families of Servicemen: Searching for "Win-Win" Solutions to a Conflict between the Family and the Military Organization

Family Process

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 211-225

  Desivilya, Helena Syna ^a   Gal, Reuven ^a  

^a Israeli Inst for Military Studies   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; FAMILY; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZATION; SOLDIER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FAMILY; FAMILY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030154972     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1996.00211.x     Document Type: Article

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