title: Caring for military families: Understanding their unique stressors.
abstract: Military families are often faced with unique stressors that civilian families do not have to deal with, such as deployment, geographic separation, and frequent relocation. When an NP is providing care for a military family, it is important that these unique stressors are discussed and understood. NPs can employ the Causal Uncertainty Model to encourage effortful cognition and support family attributes to ameliorate the negative effects of the stressors these families may face.
authors.affiliation: Regina Owen is an adjunct professor in the Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing, Bethesda, Md. Teresa Combs is an assistant professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing, Bethesda, Md.
authors.forename: Regina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Owen
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Combs
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D066067:Military Family / Q000523:psychology*; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000523:psychology*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000451:nursing*