¶ … Deployment on Military Families
Cause (Deployment) Effect (Stress on Families / Children)
The stress on military families when the father or mother is deployed -- whether the deployment is to a war zone or to another place -- can be very intense and psychologically stressful. There is a great deal of literature on what military families experience before, during, and after deployment, and this paper provides several peer-reviewed articles that discuss and assess the situations that military families must deal with during deployment. Thesis: families left at home when a military parent is deployed face social and psychological issues that do not necessarily end when that parent returns from deployment; however, there are strategies to reduce the stress once the parent returns home from the deployment.
The Literature -- Psychological Adjustment for Children
The psychological adjustments that children must make -- especially children with "…preexisting psychological conditions" such as depression or anxiety -- is significant and is being carefully studied by psychologists. An article in the peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical Psychology explains that having a parent sent to "an active combat zone" with no exact date set for returning to the family "…may rank as one of the most stressful events of childhood" (Lincoln, et al., 2008, p. 984). Additional stress may be placed on that child because the parent that remains at home may be "compromised by his or her own distress and uncertainty" by what may happen to the deployed person, Lincoln continues (984).
In order to fully understand what effects a family endures when there is separation due to a military obligation to deploy there must first be an understanding of the "unique culture of military life," Lincoln explains on page 985. First of all the military culture is faced with more than just separation when a parent deploys; in fact there is always the fear that the deployed parent could be injured or even killed. Also, in order to understand the military culture one must be familiar with the "cycle of deployment," which has five very distinct phases, according...
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