title: Relationship Education for Military Couples: Recommendations for Best Practice.
abstract: Military couples have a number of distinctive strengths and challenges that are likely to influence their relationship adjustment. Military couples' strengths include stable employment, financial security, and subsidized health and counseling services. At the same time, military couples often experience long periods of separation and associated difficulties with emotional disconnect, trauma symptoms, and reintegrating the family. This paper describes best practice recommendations for working with military couples, including: addressing the distinctive challenges of the military lifestyle, ensuring program delivery is seen as relevant by military couples, and providing relationship education in formats that enhance the accessibility of programs.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Melissa G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Bakhurst
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO.
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Loew
authors.affiliation: The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Annabel C L
authors.initials: ACL
authors.lastname: McGuire
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: W Kim
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Halford
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO.
authors.forename: Howard J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Markman
mesh_terms: D004505:Education, Nonprofessional / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D004644:Emotions; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000517:prevention & control; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology*; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: Couples; Military; Prevention; Relationship Education; Relationship Satisfaction; capacitación en relaciones; militar; parejas; prevención; satisfacción con la relación; 伴侣; 关系教育; 关系满意度; 军队; 预防