Helping Military Families Through the Deployment Process: Strategies To Support Parenting

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-62

  Gewirtz, Abigail H ^a   Erbes, Christopher R ^b   Polusny, Melissa A ^c   Forgatch, Marion S ^d   DeGarmo, David S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research   (United States)

^e Implementation Sciences International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Deployment; Military families; Parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953023016     PISSN: 07357028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022345     Document Type: Article

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