A Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families

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This unique reference integrates knowledge culled from fifteen years of U.S. deployments to create an action plan for supporting military and veteran families during future conflicts. Its innovative ideas stretch beyond designated governmental agencies (e.g., Department of Defense, VA) to include participation from, and possible collaborations with, the business/corporate, academic, advocacy, and philanthropic sectors. Contributors identify ongoing and emerging issues affecting military and veteran families and recommend specific strategies toward expanding and enhancing current programs and policy. This proactive agenda also outlines new directions for mobilizing the research community, featuring strategies for addressing institutional challenges and improving access to critical data.

Included in the coverage:

• Lessons learned inside the Pentagon.
  
• Merging reintegration streams for veterans and military families.
  
• The unique role of professional associations in assisting military families: a case study.
  
• Philanthropy for military and veteran families: challenges past, recommendations for tomorrow.
  
• Rules of engagement: media coverage of military families during war.
  
• Designing and implementing strategic research studies to support military families.
  

A Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families is of immediate usefulness to leaders, professionals, and future professionals in interdisciplinary academic, governmental, advocacy, and philanthropic areas of focus interested in the theoretical, practical, and real-life concerns and needs of military-affiliated families.

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Keywords

• Supporting Military Families
• Programs for Veterans
• Military Deployment
• Policies for Military Families
• Military Psychology
• Veteran Benefits
• Transitioning into Civilian Life
• Veteran Policy
• Military Social Work

Table of contents (20 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction to a Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families

• Linda Hughes-Kirchubel, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth

Federal Government

Front Matter

Joining Forces: Lessons Learned

• Rory M. Brosius

Lessons Learned Inside the Pentagon

• Barbara Thompson, Keisha M. Bailey

National Guard Service Member and Family Readiness After Action Review: Lessons Learned and a Way Forward

• Anthony A. Wickham, Mary Lowe Mayhugh

Confluence: Merging Reintegration Streams for Veterans and Military Families

• Jillian Bourque, Christopher Forsythe, Brian Gilman, Christian Johnson, Robin Johnson, Sean Jones et al.

Ready or Not, Here It Comes: Navigating Congress and Caring for the Wounded and Their Family Members During War Time

• William T. Cahill

An Advocate’s Lament: Creating a Strong Voice to Support Military Families at War

• Joyce Wessel Raezer

Industries, Associations and Education

Front Matter

Supporting Military Families: Learning from Our Past to Create a New Future in Business

• Sherrill A. Curtis, Vivian Greentree, William Baas, Bob Cartwright

The Higher Education Community: Educating America’s Next Great Generation

• Kathryn McMurtry Snead, Lesley McBain

The Mental Health Response to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom: History and Recommendations for Change

• Morgan T. Sammons, David S. Riggs

The Unique Role of Professional Associations in Assisting Military Families: A Case Study

• Jason T. Vail

States and Communities

Front Matter

Nonprofit Contributions: Reflections and Looking Forward

• Michael L. Gravens, Mary M. Keller

Community Mobilization

• Koby Langley, Leah Barber

Philanthropy for Military and Veteran Families: Challenges Past, Recommendations for Tomorrow

• Linda Hughes-Kirchubel, Elizabeth Cline Johnson

The White Oak Retreat: Iterative Retreats as a Uniquely Effective Mechanism for Building Consensus and Coordinating Support in the Military Community 2010–2016

• Jennifer L. Hurwitz, Cristin Orr Shiffer, Hisako Sonethavilay

Knowledge Generation and Dissemination

Front Matter

Editors and Affiliations

Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Military Family Research Institute College of Health and Human Sciences Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Military Family Research Institute, College of Health and Human Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, USA

About the editors

Linda Hughes-Kirchubel is director of external relations at the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University. She manages the organization’s strategic messaging across multiple platforms and constituencies, advancing its mission in print and digital formats. The wife of a retired Army lieutenant colonel and mother of an Air Force staff sergeant, Hughes-Kirchubel joined MFRI in 2008, where she developed marketing communications and digital content management. Concurrently, she earned her master’s degree in organizational communication from Purdue ande is currently pursuing a PhD, researching marginalization, stigma and disenfranchised grief. Before joining MFRI, Hughes-Kirchubel worked as an award-winning journalist in California and Indiana, covering politics, education and legal issues.

Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth is director of the Military Family Research Institute and the Center for Families and professor of Human Development and Family Studies atPurdue University. Her research focuses on relationships between job conditions and family life, with a special focus on military families and organizational policies, programs and practices. Her research has been widely published, and has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Henry A. Murray Center, the Department of Defense, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the state of Indiana, Lilly Endowment, and others. She serves on the editorial boards of several major family research journals, and is a fellow of the National Council on Family Relations and a recipient of the Work Life Legacy Award from the Families and Work Institute. She served on the Returning Veterans Committee of the Institute of Medicine and the Psychological Health External Advisory Committee of the Defense Health Board.

David Riggs is a clinical psychologist who currently serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Deployment Psychology and research associateprofessor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Much of his work has focused on trauma, violence and anxiety, particularly the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety disorders on the families of those directly affected. He has trained numerous student and mental health professionals, published more than 80 articles and book chapters, and presented numerous papers and workshops. Previous positions include clinical research positions at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety and the National Center for PTSD, as well as academic appointments at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Tufts University, Boston University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Bibliographic Information

• Book Title : A Battle Plan for Supporting Military Families
• Book Subtitle : Lessons for the Leaders of Tomorrow
• Editors : Linda Hughes-Kirchubel, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, David S. Riggs
• Series Title : Risk and Resilience in Military and Veteran Families
• DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68984-5
• Publisher : Springer Cham
• eBook Packages : Social Sciences , Social Sciences (R0)
• Copyright Information : Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
• Hardcover ISBN : 978-3-319-68983-8 Published: 29 January 2018
• Softcover ISBN : 978-3-319-99377-5 Published: 15 August 2018
• eBook ISBN : 978-3-319-68984-5 Published: 08 January 2018
• Series ISSN : 2570-348X
• Series E-ISSN : 2570-3498
• Edition Number : 1
• Number of Pages : XXX, 361
• Number of Illustrations : 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
• Topics : Family , Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Social Policy , Health Administration