Families overcoming under stress: Implementing family-centered prevention for military families facing wartime deployments and combat operational stress

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-25

  Lester, Patricia ^a   Mogil, Catherine ^a   Saltzman, William ^a   Woodward, Kirsten ^b   Nash, William ^c   Leskin, Gregory ^a   Bursch, Brenda ^a   Green, Sara ^a   Pynoos, Robert ^a   Beardslee, William ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b United States Bureau of Navy Medicine and Surgery   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHILD; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGY, MILITARY; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 78651287133     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00122     Document Type: Article

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