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Military life presents a variety of challenges to military families, including frequent separations and relocations as well as the risks that service members face during deployment; however, many families successfully navigate the...
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Military life presents a variety of challenges to military families, including frequent separations and relocations as well as the risks that service members face during deployment; however, many families successfully navigate these challenges. Despite a recent emphasis on family resilience, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) does not have a standard and universally accepted definition of family resilience. A standard definition is a necessary for DoD to more effectively assess its efforts to sustain and improve family resilience. RAND authors reviewed the literature on family resilience and, in this report, recommend a definition that could be used DoD-wide. The authors also reviewed DoD policies related to family resilience, reviewed models that describe family resilience and identified key family resilience factors, and developed several recommendations for how family-resilience programs and policies could be managed across DoD.
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Despite a decade of effort, we have seen limited success in increasing the personal preparedness of adults that is thought to create individual and community resiliency. Since inadequate preparation by adults can negatively affect...
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Despite a decade of effort, we have seen limited success in increasing the personal preparedness of adults that is thought to create individual and community resiliency. Since inadequate preparation by adults can negatively affect children, preparedness education for children is now a priority. Unfortunately, the current resource-based model of preparedness presents a barrier to many children who have limited resources. This highlights the need to examine other approaches to achieving resiliency among children. This thesis argues that adaptive capacity may be more beneficial for increasing resilience among children, that adaptive capacity can be taught, and that schools are the best place for such education to occur. Lastly, it addresses the significant challenges related to responsibility for teaching and content.
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Like the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines they support, military families of the 21st century face a great deal of uncertainty. Today's adversary is terrorism, and elusive enemies combined with amorphous strategies make it d...
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Like the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines they support, military families of the 21st century face a great deal of uncertainty. Today's adversary is terrorism, and elusive enemies combined with amorphous strategies make it difficult to quantify victory. The threat requires a flexible, responsive, and at times reactive military force. This environment -- volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous -- (VUCA) is characteristic of an era of persistent conflict and creates additional pressures for military families. Frequent deployments to combat zones are one aspect of this environment, and perhaps the greatest contributor to the strain military families experience. Despite the well-publicized negative impact deployments may create, they serve as an important and sometimes necessary tool in building strong and resilient military families. This paper contends that the experiences of protracted separations can serve to strengthen, rather than weaken, military families. They are necessary rites of passage that will help military families better cope with an uncertain future. The paper also will examine how changes in society have forced the services to modify their attitudes and policies toward military families. Finally, the paper will provide recommendations for areas that may require additional study and research.
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The Army created the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program in 2009, now named Comprehensive Soldier Family and Fitness (CSF2). Its mission is to build resilience in each soldier, both physically and psychologically, through resili...
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The Army created the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program in 2009, now named Comprehensive Soldier Family and Fitness (CSF2). Its mission is to build resilience in each soldier, both physically and psychologically, through resilience training. The Army decided to base CSF2 on positive psychology and use positive visualization as a subcomponent of the CSF2's resilience training. Positive visualization is focusing on positive mental images in order to help achieve a goal. It is a technique that is most known to be used in sports. However, it is also used in civilian companies and businesses of different professions. This research paper investigated and analyzed the utility of PV within the CSF2 program, for the U.S. Army. Specifically, the researcher conducted qualitative analysis of research and resources that involve PV.
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