 |
GetTextbooks.com
Compare Prices & Save up to 90% |
|
|
|
| Login | Sign up | My Wish List |
 | | The Military Family: A Practice Guide for Human Service Providers by James A. Martin (Editor), Leora N. Rosen (Editor), Linette R. Sparacino (Editor) ISBN-10: 9780275965402 ISBN-10: 0-275-96540-6 ISBN-13: 9780275965402 ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96540-2 Hardcover 2000-07-30 Praeger Publishers Find Lowest Price |
Editorials | ||
Product Description Today, there are more military family members than there are total uniformed service members. Sixty percent of the military are married, including more than eighty percent of all career-status personnel, and many have small children. They come from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, and they represent a wide variety of family types, including single parents, dual career military couples, and families with eldercare responsibilities. In an effort to cut costs, many of the services utilized by military families are being privatized or outsourced to civilian service providers. This guide is designed to benefit anyone who provides services to these families, particularly those who may have little or no prior knowledge of the unique nature of military families and military family life. This book contains research-based information about the unique needs of military families across various duty-related conditions, as well as within the context of military career demands. Its multi-service focus addresses the provision of human services in both peace and wartime. Topics include military spouse employment, retirement issues, family support during deployments, the New Parent Support Program, and the experiences of adult children of military parents. The authors encourage an understanding of military community-based programs and services, and they offer the reader numerous resources for collaboration with the military community. | ||
Reviews | ||
Helpful handbook This book consists of various essays about the unique challenges and issues that military families face. Most of the essays are interesting and very helpful to those who are interested in educating themselves about the military family from the perspective of a "helping" profession, such as counseling. For example, as a school counseling student, I use some information from the book to justify my position that children and spouses of military soldiers need more support from the community and the schools during times of deployment. So it's great for research and/or proposals if you're trying to get your school or community to adopt services for military families because it has a wealth of information about the challenges of military life. The book is comprehensive in that it has essays on both military spouses and children, and also the issues that soldiers themselves face. This book is very educational if you know next to nothing about the military, or if you know a lot about the military. I am a military spouse and found the book to be very enlightening! The essays also include good studies that would be useful for research, counselors/social workers, and those people who are just simply interested in knowing more about the military family in general. | ||