Family-centered care to promote successful community reintegration after war: it takes a nation.
The papers in this section focus on public health responses and implementation considerations in addressing the challenges military families confront when parents go to war. While many military families show resilience, the challenges resulting from a decade of war with multiple deployments are detailed, as are innovative military and civilian programs designed to help service members and their families reintegrate successfully into the community. As more and more service members leave active duty, the burden of meeting military families' psychological needs will transition from the Department of Defense (DoD) and into the Veterans Administration (VA) and civilian arenas. While many strategies to support successful readjustment are offered, in this time of dwindling mental health resources and competing needs, it is unclear what priority the broader society places on meeting the needs of returning service members and their families. A growing emphasis on family-centered care in the Veterans Administration may help meet this gap.
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System at West Los Angeles, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, B151j, 11301 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90073, USA, sglynn@ucla.edu.
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D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005192:Family Health / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D016730:Program Development / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs / Q000592:standards*; D014728:Veterans / Q000523:psychology*