Wartime deployment and military children: Applying prevention science to enhance family resilience

Risk and Resilience in U.S. Military Families

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 149-173

  Lester, Patricia ^a   Leskin, Gregory ^a   Woodward, Kirsten ^b   Saltzman, William ^a   Nash, William ^c   Mogil, Catherine ^a   Paley, Blair ^d   Beardslee, William ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bureau of Medicine and Surgery   (United States)

^c Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7064-0_8     Document Type: Chapter

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