This book focuses on the key issues that affect military families when soldiers are deployed overseas, focusing on the support given to military personnel and families before, during and after missions.
Todays postmodern armies are expected to provide social-psychological support both to their personnel in military operations abroad and to their families at home. Since the end of the Cold War and even more so after 9/11, separations between military personnel and their families have become more frequent as there has been a multitude of missions carried out by multinational task forces all over the world. The book focuses on three central questions affecting military families. First, how do changing missions and tasks of the military affect soldiers and families? Second, what is the effect of deployments on the ones left behind? Third, what is the national structure of family support systems and its evolution?
The book employs a multidisciplinary approach, with contributions from psychology, sociology, history, anthropology and others. In addition, it covers all the services, Army, Navy/Marines, Air Force, spanning a wide range of countries, including UK, USA, Belgium, Turkey, Australia and Japan. At the same time it takes a multitude of perspectives such as the theoretical, empirical, reflective, life events (narrative) approach, national and the global, and uses approaches from different disciplines and perspectives, combining them to produce a volume that enhances our knowledge and understanding of military families.
This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, sociology, war and conflict studies and IR/political science in general.
Employing an interdisciplinary methodology and comparative case studies, this book focuses on the key issues that affect military families when soldiers are deployed overseas.
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The book utilizes a multidisciplinary approach with contributions from sociology, psychology, history, and anthropology, and includes a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods. All of the major services (army, navy, and air force) are covered while spanning a wide range of countries, providing a useful cross-national analysis. An excellent introduction and epilogue nicely bookend the collection and add to its overall cohesiveness. Useful for sociology, military studies, and international relations collections.
--G. B. Osborne, University of Alberta
- CHOICE recommended
Part I: Military Organizations and Families in Transition
1.
Introduction, René Moelker, Manon Andres, Gary Bowen and Philippe Manigart
2.
Transitions in the military and the family as greedy institutions: Original
concept and current applicability, Karin De Angelis and Mady Wechsler Segal
3. Organizational culture and military families: The case of combat officers
in the IDF, Meytal EranJona
4. Dual military families: Confronting a
stubborn military institution, David Smith
5. Profession and the military
family in the armed forces of Argentina. Generational differences and
socio-cultural changes, Sabina Frederic and Laura Masson Part II: Military
Families under Stress
6. The emotional cycle of deployment, Maren Tomforde
7.
The British military family, Christopher Dandeker, Claire Eversden, Catherine
Birtles and Simon Wessely
8. Well-being of military families: Coping with the
stressors of military life among spouses of Canadian Armed Forces members,
Sanela Dursun and Kerry Sudom
9. Reintegration, reconciliation and
relationship quality, Manon Andres, Karin De Angelis and David McCone
10.
Stress, wounds, injuries and meaning: The effects of combat related PTSD on
intimate relationships and partners, Rachel Dekel, Shelley MacDermid
Wadsworth and Laura Sanchez
11. Children and deployment, a cross country
comparison, Manon Andres and Julie Coulthard Part III: National
Social-psychological Family Support
12. Missions alike and unlike: Military
family support in war and peace, Jocelyn Bartone
13. Community capacity and
the psychological well-being of married United States Air Force members, Gary
Bowen, James Martin, Jay Mancini and Danielle Swick
14. The influence of the
primary social environment on members of the Slovenian armed forces, Jelena
Juvan and Janja Vuga
15. How do military families cope with multiple
deployments abroad of loved ones: The case of Belgium, Philippe Manigart,
Valerian Lecoq, and Salvatore Lo Bue
16. The invisible families of Portuguese
soldiers. From colonial wars to contemporary missions, Helena Carreiras
17.
Family support systems in the Turkish military, Kadir Varoglu, Yavuz Ercil
and Unsal Sigri
18. "Down under:" Support to military families from an
Australian perspective, Philip Siebler
19. Family support and the Japan
Self-Defense Forces: Challenges and developing new programs, Hitoshi Kawano
and Atsuko Fukuura
20. Epilogue, Manon Andres, Gary Bowen, Philippe Manigart
and René Moelker
René Moelker is an Associate Professor at the Netherlands Defense Academy.
Manon Andres is an Assistant Professor at the Netherlands Defense Academy.
Gary Bowen is Kenan Distinguished Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), USA.
Philippe Manigart is Professor of Sociology at the Royal Military Academy, Belgium.
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