Parenting practices and emotion regulation in national guard and reserve families: Early findings from the after deployment adaptive parenting tools/ADAPT study

Military Deployment and its Consequences for Families

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 111-131

  Gewirtz, Abigail ^a   Davis, Laurel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

ADAPT (after deployment, adaptive parenting tools); Child adjustment; Deployment; Emotion regulation; Intervention; Military families; Parental adjustment; Parenting; Prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925403326     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8712-8_7     Document Type: Chapter

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