Shortchanging Vets
Recognizing PTSD within your Spouse, Family member or Friends
The following information is not in any specific order. They are mainly placed in the order in which I was able to find the subjects. I hope that the military spouses out there finds this information useful during deployment, and re-integration and re-adjustment of your spouse, and moving on with your life as a family during the readjustment from combat.If you are a military spouse here is a magazine just for you. It's called (DA) Military Spouse!
- Program educates military spouses and Builds Confidence
- Overcoming Relocation Stress
- Family Life and Deployment
- Life after Deployment (Welcome Home!)
- Dad’s in Iraq, and the Family’s on Edge
- Communications during Deployment
- Kids of Deployed Parents Need Consistency
- Partners with PTSD
- Relationships with spouse, family, friends or co-workers are effected by YOUR PTSD!
- Military personnel divorce rate is on the rise!
- Spouse cover-up of trauma symptoms at home.
- The Survival Guide for Marriage in the Military
- Families and the holidays
- 10 tips for loved one to relax!
- Entitlements for a Spouse upon death of partner.
Here is a great web site for the Military Mama!
Wish to organize a workshop on returning spouses from deployment? Here is an excellent resource for you! Its called Turning Your Heart Toward Home, A Workbook Course for Re-integration and Re-adjustment. Please take a look at the program and see if it would meet your needs.
Here is an excellent list of books for the Spouse and Family:
- Chicken Soup for the Military Wife's Soul: Stories to Touch the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit (Chicken Soup for the Soul) (Paperback)
- Karen Pavlicin, Karen M. Pavlicin. Surviving Deployment: A Guide for Military Families (Paperback)
- Heart of a Hawk: One family's sacrifice & journey toward healing (Paperback)
- Gene Thomas Gomulka
The Survival Guide for Marriage in the Military
- Chuck Dean When the War Is over a New One Begins: Rebuilding Relationships After Trauma
- Brett (1988). Annie Stories: a special kind of storytelling.
- Hilary Martin Solo-Ops A Survival Guide for Military Wives (Paperback)
- Gottman (1994). Why Marriages Succeed or Fail ... and how you can make yours last.
- Kalter (1991). Growing Up With Divorce: helping your child avoid immediate and later emotional problems.
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