Healing Stress in Military Families Eight Steps to Wellness [Paperback]

When service members return, it's up to their families to try to soften their re-entry into civilian life. Healing Stress in Military Families offers practical help for military families coping with the myriad repercussions of their loved ones' duties, from their deployment to their return home.

Based on the latest scientific research and best practice guidelines—as well as the authors' experience treating veterans and their families—Healing Stress in Military Families offers answers for the stress that comes not only from war, but also from other related issues, including deployment and redeployment, relocation, and reunion.

Healing Stress in Military Families provides:

• Evidence-based advice for clinicians helping military families with adjustment problems by facilitating communication, reconnection, and growth

• Making It Real exercises for clinicians to employ with families in sessions

• Talking Points that explore how to guide the family in their healing process

• Homework handouts and between-session Taking Action exercises for families that reinforce and build on skills and information introduced in sessions

Compassionately written with the military family at heart, Healing Stress in Military Families provides the information, tools, and skills that will empower these courageous families to more easily heal and become stronger and more resilient as they go through life.

This practical workbook will help others understand the highly complex factors that cause dysfunction witlÈ